Great Sandy National Park (K'gari)

Name: Great Sandy National Park (K'gari)
Address: Australia

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Great Sandy National Park (K'gari), Australia — Photo: Eduardo M. C., CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 2,254 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Great Sandy National Park (K'gari)

Species: 1,757
Grid cells: 3,762
Records: 374,350

Insects 1,221
Birds 241
Bony fish 146
Reptiles 66
Mammals 37
Amphibians 29
Sharks and rays 17

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Great Sandy National Park (K'gari). 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 Great Sandy National Park (K'gari), 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 Great Sandy National Park (K'gari), among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.