Gal Oya National Park

Name: Gal Oya National Park
Address: Sri Lanka

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Gal Oya National Park, Sri Lanka — Photo: AntanO, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 434 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Gal Oya National Park

Species: 103
Grid cells: 177
Records: 9,037

Birds 74
Reptiles 14
Amphibians 7
Insects 6
Mammals 2

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Gal Oya 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

None of the species with a full field-guide entry 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 Gal Oya 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.