Cape Breton Highlands National Park

Name: Cape Breton Highlands National Park
Address: Canada

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Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Canada — Photo: Eric Van Lochem, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 943 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Cape Breton Highlands National Park

Species: 708
Grid cells: 948
Records: 51,888

Insects 669
Bony fish 22
Mammals 8
Birds 5
Sharks and rays 2
Amphibians 1
Reptiles 1

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