Cape Sparrow
Passer melanurus
West Coast National Park, Table Mountain National Park and the Namib-Naukluft are among the 12 atlas places where the Cape Sparrow is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho and Botswana, and this map follows where they gather most thickly. The atlas holds about 261,000 open records of this bird from four countries.
Passer melanurus is recorded year-round, with records spanning every month of the year.
- Records
- 260,946
- Countries
- 4
- Atlas places
- 12
Each bar is the share of its 200 month-dated grid cells with records in that month.
- uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park· South Africa
- Namib-Naukluft· Namibia
- West Coast National Park· South Africa
- Addo Elephant National Park· South Africa
- Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park· South Africa
- Table Mountain National Park· South Africa
- Dorob National Park· Namibia
- Walvis Bay· Namibia
- Augrabies Falls National Park· South Africa
- Karoo National Park· South Africa
- Pilanesberg National Park· South Africa
- Mountain Zebra National Park· South Africa
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Cape 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.
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 · 252738 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyNamibia25 km zone · high confidence · 6720 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyBotswana25 km zone · high confidence · 1059 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyLesotho25 km zone · high confidence · 429 records · updated 40 days ago
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.
