iSimangaliso Wetland Park

Name: iSimangaliso Wetland Park
Address: South Africa

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iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa — Photo: Rialfver at Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 2,363 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around iSimangaliso Wetland Park

Species: 2,187
Grid cells: 7,800
Records: 996,064

Insects 963
Bony fish 600
Birds 426
Reptiles 77
Amphibians 47
Mammals 43
Sharks and rays 31

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near iSimangaliso Wetland 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

Encounter chances are worked out for the species with a full field-guide entry, and none of them has records here yet. The most recorded species below come from the same records.

Most recorded here

The species with the most open occurrence records in and around iSimangaliso Wetland 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.