Machalilla National Park

Name: Machalilla National Park
Address: Ecuador

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Machalilla National Park, Ecuador — Photo: Ecuador planeta magico, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 479 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Machalilla National Park

Species: 384
Grid cells: 768
Records: 152,666

Birds 242
Bony fish 51
Insects 34
Reptiles 18
Mammals 17
Amphibians 16
Sharks and rays 6

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

The number beside each name is its records here.

Most recorded here

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