Murchison Falls National Park

Name: Murchison Falls National Park
Address: Uganda

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Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda — Photo: BMKME, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 3,878 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Murchison Falls National Park

Species: 541
Grid cells: 1,826
Records: 207,154

Birds 457
Mammals 50
Insects 17
Bony fish 10
Reptiles 7

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