Wilpattu National Park

Name: Wilpattu National Park
Address: Sri Lanka

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Wilpattu National Park, Sri Lanka — Photo: Nishan Silva, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 1,337 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Wilpattu National Park

Species: 126
Grid cells: 277
Records: 18,136

Birds 74
Insects 18
Mammals 13
Reptiles 11
Amphibians 10

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