Lake Nakuru National Park

Name: Lake Nakuru National Park
Address: Kenya

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Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya — Photo: Николай Максимович, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 190 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Lake Nakuru National Park

Species: 416
Grid cells: 633
Records: 155,926

Birds 374
Mammals 28
Reptiles 7
Insects 4
Amphibians 3

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Lake Nakuru 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 Lake Nakuru 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.