Bangweulu Wetlands

Name: Bangweulu Wetlands
Address: Zambia

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Bangweulu Wetlands, Zambia — Photo: Mehmet Karatay, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 13,619 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Bangweulu Wetlands

Species: 90
Grid cells: 139
Records: 1,856

Birds 49
Bony fish 29
Insects 5
Mammals 4
Amphibians 2
Reptiles 1

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