Namib-Naukluft

Name: Namib-Naukluft
Address: Namibia

Namibia · park

Namib-Naukluft, Namibia — Photo: Buiobuione, 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 · medium confidence · updated 41 days ago

Recorded in and around Namib-Naukluft

Species: 524
Grid cells: 2,078
Records: 177,112

Insects 257
Birds 151
Reptiles 68
Mammals 30
Amphibians 6
Bony fish 6
Sharks and rays 5
Chimaeras 1

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Namib-Naukluft. 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

mammalLC

Gemsbok

Oryx gazella

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

Very likelyNA

birdLC

Greater Flamingo

Phoenicopterus roseus

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

Very likelyNA

birdLC

Sociable Weaver

Philetairus socius

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

Very likelyNA

mammalLC

Springbok

Antidorcas marsupialis

Small, watchful, and given to sudden pronking displays.

Very likelyNA

mammalNT

Brown Hyena

Parahyaena brunnea

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

LikelyNA

Chances by species: Black-backed Jackal, Gemsbok, Greater Flamingo, Sociable Weaver, Springbok, Brown Hyena

Most recorded here

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