Badlands National Park

Name: Badlands National Park
Address: United States

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Badlands National Park, United States — Photo: Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 977 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Badlands National Park

Species: 261
Grid cells: 674
Records: 60,586

Insects 234
Mammals 11
Birds 8
Reptiles 5
Amphibians 3

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