Waterberg Plateau Park

Name: Waterberg Plateau Park
Address: Namibia

Namibia · park

Waterberg Plateau Park, Namibia — Photo: Domenico Convertini from Zurich, Schweiz, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 613 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

10 km zone · low confidence · updated 41 days ago

Recorded in and around Waterberg Plateau Park

Species: 174
Grid cells: 296
Records: 18,118

Birds 93
Insects 51
Mammals 16
Reptiles 12
Amphibians 2

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

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.

UncommonNA

Chances by species: Sociable Weaver, Springbok

Most recorded here

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