Walvis Bay

Name: Walvis Bay
Address: Namibia

Namibia · coast

Walvis Bay, Namibia — Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

No gazetted boundary is drawn for Walvis Bay, so the counts below cover an approximate area centred on -22.98°, 14.50°.

10 km zone · medium confidence · updated 41 days ago

Recorded in and around Walvis Bay

Species: 176
Grid cells: 334
Records: 84,552

Birds 86
Insects 56
Reptiles 23
Mammals 7
Bony fish 2
Sharks and rays 2

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Walvis Bay. 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

Chances by species: Black-backed Jackal, Greater Flamingo, Springbok

Most recorded here

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