Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park

Name: Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park
Address: Namibia

Namibia · park

Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park, Namibia — Photo: Graf-flugplatz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 21,826 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 Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park

Species: 278
Grid cells: 594
Records: 28,780

Insects 141
Birds 56
Reptiles 37
Bony fish 28
Mammals 7
Amphibians 4
Sharks and rays 4
Chimaeras 1

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) 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

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

Gemsbok

Oryx gazella

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

LikelyNA

mammalLC

Springbok

Antidorcas marsupialis

Small, watchful, and given to sudden pronking displays.

LikelyNA

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

Most recorded here

The species with the most open occurrence records in and around Tsau ǁKhaeb (Sperrgebiet) 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.