Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve

Name: Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve
Address: Peru

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Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, Peru — Photo: Techylm, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 21,717 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve

Species: 877
Grid cells: 3,074
Records: 160,579

Birds 461
Bony fish 206
Insects 87
Mammals 57
Amphibians 48
Reptiles 16
Sharks and rays 2

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve. 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 Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, 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 Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.