Wasgamuwa National Park

Name: Wasgamuwa National Park
Address: Sri Lanka

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Wasgamuwa National Park, Sri Lanka — Photo: Rehman Abubakr, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 396 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Wasgamuwa National Park

Species: 254
Grid cells: 391
Records: 47,851

Birds 124
Insects 68
Reptiles 29
Mammals 20
Amphibians 10
Bony fish 3

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Wasgamuwa 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. Chances for the species with a written atlas page follow below.

Chances for more species

Species with a written atlas page and records in and around Wasgamuwa National Park, most recorded first. Each shows how likely an encounter is here, in which months it has been recorded, and the records behind it.

The number beside each name is its records here.

Most recorded here

The species with the most open occurrence records in and around Wasgamuwa 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.