Rwenzori Mountains National Park

Name: Rwenzori Mountains National Park
Address: Uganda

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Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda — Photo: Vincent Mugaba, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 992 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Rwenzori Mountains National Park

Species: 904
Grid cells: 2,237
Records: 229,919

Birds 506
Insects 297
Mammals 46
Bony fish 24
Amphibians 19
Reptiles 12

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