Tsavo West National Park

Name: Tsavo West National Park
Address: Kenya

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Tsavo West National Park, Kenya — Photo: Udo Schmidt from Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 6,994 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Tsavo West National Park

Species: 747
Grid cells: 2,958
Records: 124,460

Birds 361
Insects 280
Mammals 73
Amphibians 16
Reptiles 12
Bony fish 5

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