
Ploceus velatus
Kruger National Park, uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park and Addo Elephant National Park are among the 18 atlas places where the Southern Masked Weaver is recorded. Records concentrate in South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe, and the map shows where these records gather. The atlas holds about 325,000 open records of this bird from eight countries.
Records of the Southern Masked Weaver run year-round, appearing in the atlas for every month.
Each bar is the share of its 200 month-dated grid cells with records in that month.
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Southern Masked Weaver 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.