Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park

Name: Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park
Address: Namibia

Namibia · park

Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park, Namibia — Photo: Winfried Bruenken ( Amrum ), CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 6,045 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

10 km zone · low confidence · updated 41 days ago

Recorded in and around Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park

Species: 333
Grid cells: 641
Records: 12,043

Insects 194
Birds 60
Reptiles 49
Bony fish 12
Amphibians 10
Mammals 8

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier 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

birdLC

Sociable Weaver

Philetairus socius

Builders of the largest bird nests on Earth: apartment blocks in acacia.

Very likelyNA

mammalNT

Brown Hyena

Parahyaena brunnea

Shaggy ghost of the Skeleton Coast, scavenging along the tide line.

LikelyNA

birdLC

Greater Flamingo

Phoenicopterus roseus

Pink drifts across Walvis Bay's lagoons after the rains.

LikelyNA

mammalLC

Springbok

Antidorcas marsupialis

Small, watchful, and given to sudden pronking displays.

PossibleNA

Chances by species: Sociable Weaver, Brown Hyena, Greater Flamingo, Springbok

Most recorded here

The species with the most open occurrence records in and around Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier 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.