Cotopaxi National Park

Name: Cotopaxi National Park
Address: Ecuador

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Cotopaxi National Park, Ecuador — Photo: amalavida.tv from Ecuador, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 336 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Cotopaxi National Park

Species: 204
Grid cells: 324
Records: 69,293

Birds 126
Insects 64
Mammals 6
Amphibians 5
Reptiles 3

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

Rufous-collared Sparrow2,831

The number beside each name is its records here.

Most recorded here

The species with the most open occurrence records in and around Cotopaxi 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.