Etosha National Park

Name: Etosha National Park
Address: Namibia

Namibia · park

Etosha National Park, Namibia — Photo: Giles Laurent, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

10 km zone · high confidence · updated 41 days ago

Recorded in and around Etosha National Park

Species: 339
Grid cells: 1,865
Records: 218,218

Birds 205
Insects 63
Mammals 35
Reptiles 32
Amphibians 4

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

mammalEN

African Elephant

Loxodonta africana

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

Very likelyNA

mammalLC

Black-backed Jackal

Lupulella mesomelas

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

Very likelyNA

mammalLC

Gemsbok

Oryx gazella

Emblem of the desert, capable of surviving without free water.

Very likelyNA

birdLC

Sociable Weaver

Philetairus socius

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

Very likelyNA

mammalNT

Southern Giraffe

Giraffa giraffa

Tall browsers of the mopane and acacia belts.

Very likelyNA

mammalLC

Spotted Hyena

Crocuta crocuta

Whoops after dark; kills at first light.

Very likelyNA

mammalLC

Springbok

Antidorcas marsupialis

Small, watchful, and given to sudden pronking displays.

Very likelyNA

mammalCR

Sensitive · location generalised

Black Rhinoceros

Diceros bicornis

Precise locations are withheld. Namibia holds a globally significant population.

LikelyNA

birdLC

Greater Flamingo

Phoenicopterus roseus

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

LikelyNA

Chances by species: African Elephant, Black-backed Jackal, Gemsbok, Sociable Weaver, Southern Giraffe, Spotted Hyena, Springbok, Black Rhinoceros, Greater Flamingo

Most recorded here

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