Big Bend National Park

Name: Big Bend National Park
Address: United States

United States · park

Big Bend National Park, United States — Photo: TripOfALifestyle.com, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 3,180 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Big Bend National Park

Species: 951
Grid cells: 1,959
Records: 449,373

Insects 710
Birds 105
Reptiles 63
Bony fish 31
Mammals 30
Amphibians 12

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