Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park

Name: Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
Address: New Zealand

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Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand — Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 721 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park

Species: 236
Grid cells: 385
Records: 22,272

Insects 164
Birds 32
Bony fish 32
Sharks and rays 5
Reptiles 2
Mammals 1

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Aoraki / Mount Cook 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 Aoraki / Mount Cook 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.