Cape Gannet
Morus capensis
Namib-Naukluft, Garden Route National Park and iSimangaliso Wetland Park are among the 12 atlas places where the Cape Gannet is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Namibia, Australia, Mozambique and New Zealand. The atlas holds about 126,000 open records of this bird from six countries, and the map shows where these records concentrate.
Records of Morus capensis are available year-round, appearing in the atlas for every month of the year.
- Records
- 126,057
- Countries
- 6
- Atlas places
- 12
Each bar is the share of its 136 month-dated grid cells with records in that month.
- Garden Route National Park· South Africa
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park· South Africa
- Namib-Naukluft· Namibia
- Dorob National Park· Namibia
- Addo Elephant National Park· South Africa
- Table Mountain National Park· South Africa
- Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park· Namibia
- Walvis Bay· Namibia
- West Coast National Park· South Africa
- Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park· Namibia
- Kunene / Kaokoveld· Namibia
- Skeleton Coast· Namibia
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Cape Gannet 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 · 106478 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyNamibia25 km zone · high confidence · 19122 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyAustralia25 km zone · high confidence · 314 records · updated 40 days ago
- LikelyNew Zealand25 km zone · medium confidence · 42 records · updated 40 days ago
- PossibleMozambique25 km zone · medium confidence · 94 records · updated 40 days ago
- UncommonAngola25 km zone · medium confidence · 7 records · updated 40 days ago
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.
