Península Valdés

Name: Península Valdés
Address: Argentina

Argentina · reserve

Península Valdés, Argentina — Photo: David, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 3,901 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Península Valdés

Species: 122
Grid cells: 436
Records: 27,557

Birds 52
Bony fish 30
Insects 17
Mammals 16
Reptiles 5
Chimaeras 1
Sharks and rays 1

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Península Valdés. 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 Península Valdés, most recorded first. Each shows how likely an encounter is here, in which months it has been recorded, and the records behind it.

Southern Right Whale1,390

The number beside each name is its records here.

Most recorded here

The species with the most open occurrence records in and around Península Valdés, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.