
Ardea cinerea
Table Mountain National Park is the single atlas place where the Grey Heron is recorded, with records gathering most thickly in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Norway, Taiwan and France. The atlas holds about 1.4 million records of the bird from 29 countries, and the map follows where these records concentrate.
Seasons differ by region for the Ardea cinerea, and each place page shows the months when it was recorded there.
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Grey Heron as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.
Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.