West Coast National Park

Name: West Coast National Park
Address: South Africa

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West Coast National Park, South Africa — Photo: S Molteno, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 368 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around West Coast National Park

Species: 428
Grid cells: 899
Records: 423,570

Birds 197
Insects 172
Reptiles 29
Mammals 16
Amphibians 6
Bony fish 5
Sharks and rays 2
Chimaeras 1

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near West Coast 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

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 West Coast 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.