Wood Buffalo National Park

Name: Wood Buffalo National Park
Address: Canada

Canada · park

Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada — Photo: Ansgar Walk, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 45,060 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Wood Buffalo National Park

Species: 332
Grid cells: 443
Records: 5,181

Insects 326
Birds 3
Bony fish 2
Mammals 1

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