Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

Name: Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Address: South Africa

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Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa — Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 35,275 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

Species: 247
Grid cells: 1,144
Records: 114,615

Birds 113
Insects 89
Mammals 24
Reptiles 16
Bony fish 4
Amphibians 1

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