Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
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Southern Grey-headed Sparrow

Passer diffusus

Overview

Kruger National Park, uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park and Garden Route National Park are among 19 atlas places where the Southern Grey-headed Sparrow is recorded. Records concentrate in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and Zambia, and the map shows where these sightings cluster. The atlas holds about 179,000 open records of the bird from eight countries.

Records of Passer diffusus span every month of the year.

Records
179,341
Countries
8
Atlas places
19
Months with records
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Each bar is the share of its 200 month-dated grid cells with records in that month.

Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Southern Grey-headed Sparrow 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.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • South Africa
    25 km zone · high confidence · 163961 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Namibia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 6188 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Zimbabwe
    25 km zone · high confidence · 5978 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Zambia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1235 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Mozambique
    25 km zone · high confidence · 804 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Botswana
    25 km zone · high confidence · 768 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Eswatini
    25 km zone · high confidence · 407 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Southern Grey-headed Sparrow