Cape Starling
Lamprotornis nitens
Kruger National Park, Addo Elephant National Park and iSimangaliso Wetland Park are among the 16 atlas places where the Cape Starling is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Botswana and Eswatini. The atlas holds about 203,000 records of the species across six countries, and the map shows where these observations gather.
Records of this member of the Sturnidae family span the entire year, appearing in the atlas through every month.
- Records
- 202,969
- Countries
- 6
- Atlas places
- 16
Each bar is the share of its 200 month-dated grid cells with records in that month.
- Kruger National Park· South Africa
- Addo Elephant National Park· South Africa
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park· South Africa
- Etosha National Park· Namibia
- uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park· South Africa
- Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park· South Africa
- Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park· South Africa
- Pilanesberg National Park· South Africa
- Bwabwata National Park· Namibia
- Chobe National Park· Botswana
- Golden Gate Highlands National Park· South Africa
- Madikwe Game Reserve· South Africa
- Mapungubwe National Park· South Africa
- Mountain Zebra National Park· South Africa
- Okavango Delta· Botswana
- Waterberg Plateau Park· Namibia
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Cape Starling 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.
- Very likelySouth Africa25 km zone · high confidence · 187128 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyNamibia25 km zone · high confidence · 10688 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyMozambique25 km zone · high confidence · 1674 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyBotswana25 km zone · high confidence · 1429 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyEswatini25 km zone · high confidence · 1333 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyZimbabwe25 km zone · high confidence · 717 records · updated 40 days ago
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.
