Amboseli National Park

Name: Amboseli National Park
Address: Kenya

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Amboseli National Park, Kenya — Photo: Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 396 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Amboseli National Park

Species: 353
Grid cells: 614
Records: 110,577

Birds 296
Mammals 38
Insects 16
Reptiles 2
Amphibians 1

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Amboseli National Park. 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 Amboseli National Park, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.