Westland Tai Poutini National Park

Name: Westland Tai Poutini National Park
Address: New Zealand

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Westland Tai Poutini National Park, New Zealand — Photo: Department of Conservation, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 1,314 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Westland Tai Poutini National Park

Species: 314
Grid cells: 725
Records: 34,421

Insects 205
Bony fish 57
Birds 36
Sharks and rays 10
Mammals 2
Reptiles 2
Chimaeras 2

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