
Vanellus coronatus
Kruger National Park, Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area are among the 28 atlas places where the Crowned Lapwing is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania, and the atlas map shows where these sightings gather. There are about 187,000 records of this bird from ten countries.
Records of Vanellus coronatus span every month of the year.
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 Crowned Lapwing 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.