Okavango Delta

Name: Okavango Delta
Address: Botswana

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Okavango Delta, Botswana — Photo: Teo Gómez, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 11,600 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Okavango Delta

Species: 709
Grid cells: 4,365
Records: 372,775

Birds 321
Insects 235
Bony fish 75
Mammals 32
Amphibians 25
Reptiles 21

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Okavango Delta. Cells are up to 25 km across, so an animal counted here may have been recorded just outside the boundary. This is not a park checklist, and the counts follow where people look as much as what lives there.

Likely encounters

Encounter chances are worked out for the species with a full field-guide entry, and none of them has records here yet. The most recorded species below come from the same records.

Most recorded here

The species with the most open occurrence records in and around Okavango Delta, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.