Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Name: Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Address: Tanzania

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Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania — Photo: Giles Laurent, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 8,243 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Species: 703
Grid cells: 3,765
Records: 473,972

Birds 504
Insects 89
Mammals 75
Reptiles 21
Amphibians 8
Bony fish 6

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Ngorongoro Conservation Area. 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 Ngorongoro Conservation Area, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.