Dorob National Park

Name: Dorob National Park
Address: Namibia

Namibia · park

Dorob National Park, Namibia — Photo: Ebe 1003, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 8,207 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

10 km zone · medium confidence · updated 41 days ago

Recorded in and around Dorob National Park

Species: 308
Grid cells: 835
Records: 115,838

Birds 123
Insects 115
Reptiles 44
Mammals 14
Bony fish 6
Sharks and rays 4
Amphibians 2

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Dorob 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

mammalLC

Black-backed Jackal

Lupulella mesomelas

Persistent, clever, and heard yipping across the plains at dusk.

Very likelyNA

birdLC

Greater Flamingo

Phoenicopterus roseus

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

Very likelyNA

mammalLC

Springbok

Antidorcas marsupialis

Small, watchful, and given to sudden pronking displays.

Very likelyNA

mammalEN

African Elephant

Loxodonta africana

Desert-adapted herds that survive on remembered water in some of the driest country in Africa.

PossibleNA

birdLC

Sociable Weaver

Philetairus socius

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

RareNA

Chances by species: Black-backed Jackal, Greater Flamingo, Springbok, African Elephant, Sociable Weaver

Most recorded here

The species with the most open occurrence records in and around Dorob 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.