Kunene / Kaokoveld

Name: Kunene / Kaokoveld
Address: Namibia

Namibia · region

Kunene / Kaokoveld, Namibia — Photo: Pavel Špindler, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

No gazetted boundary is drawn for Kunene / Kaokoveld, so the counts below cover an approximate area centred on -19.50°, 13.70°.

10 km zone · medium confidence · updated 41 days ago

Recorded in and around Kunene / Kaokoveld

Species: 255
Grid cells: 953
Records: 20,867

Birds 98
Insects 88
Reptiles 46
Mammals 17
Amphibians 4
Bony fish 2

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Kunene / Kaokoveld. 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.

LikelyNA

mammalLC

Gemsbok

Oryx gazella

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

LikelyNA

birdLC

Sociable Weaver

Philetairus socius

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

LikelyNA

mammalLC

Springbok

Antidorcas marsupialis

Small, watchful, and given to sudden pronking displays.

LikelyNA

birdLC

Greater Flamingo

Phoenicopterus roseus

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

UncommonNA

Chances by species: African Elephant, Gemsbok, Sociable Weaver, Springbok, Greater Flamingo

Most recorded here

The species with the most open occurrence records in and around Kunene / Kaokoveld, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.