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Learn the wildlife of Bayerischer Wald National Park

Germany

1,748 species have research-grade observations inside Bayerischer Wald National Park on iNaturalist. KnowKi turns the most recorded into short lessons with real photos, so you know what you're looking at before you go.

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Most recorded here

The species with the most research-grade observations on iNaturalist, and how many each has. Most recorded doesn't mean native.

Birds

  1. Coal Tit Periparus ater40
  2. Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides tridactylus32
  3. Common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs30
  4. European Robin Erithacus rubecula26
  5. Crested Tit Lophophanes cristatus22
  6. Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major18
  7. Great Tit Parus major16
  8. Mallard Anas platyrhynchos14
  9. Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius14
  10. Eurasian Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula14

Plants

  1. Purple foxglove Digitalis purpurea65
  2. Deer fern Struthiopteris spicant58
  3. Mountain Tassel-Flower Soldanella montana54
  4. Interrupted clubmoss Spinulum annotinum47
  5. Marsh marigold Caltha palustris43
  6. Common bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus38
  7. Purple lettuce Prenanthes purpurea36
  8. Alpine Blue-sow-thistle Cicerbita alpina33
  9. European beech Fagus sylvatica32
  10. White Butterbur Petasites albus32

Mammals

  1. Eurasian Beaver Castor fiber19
  2. Wild Boar Sus scrofa10
  3. Red Deer Cervus elaphus6
  4. Red Fox Vulpes vulpes5
  5. Western Roe Deer Capreolus capreolus5
  6. European Mole Talpa europaea5
  7. Eurasian Red Squirrel Sciurus vulgaris4

Insects

  1. Woodland Dor Beetle Anoplotrupes stercorosus52
  2. Heath Fritillary Melitaea athalia46
  3. Large Skipper Ochlodes sylvanus38
  4. Green-veined White Pieris napi28
  5. Lettuce Shark Cucullia lactucae25
  6. Black Meadowhawk Sympetrum danae24
  7. Forest Bug Pentatoma rufipes23
  8. Common Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni23
  9. Red Pine Longhorn Beetle Stictoleptura rubra21
  10. Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa21

Spiders and kin

  1. Cross Orbweaver Araneus diadematus27
  2. Goldenrod Crab Spider Misumena vatia24
  3. Green Huntsman Spider Micrommata virescens7
  4. Saddleback Harvestman Mitopus morio7
  5. Oak Spider Aculepeira ceropegia5
  6. Eurasian Green Crab Spider Diaea dorsata5
  7. Evarcha arcuata5
  8. Callobius claustrarius5

Reptiles

  1. Viviparous Lizard Zootoca vivipara40
  2. Adder Vipera berus22
  3. Common Slowworm Anguis fragilis15
  4. Grass snake Natrix natrix11

Amphibians

  1. European Common Frog Rana temporaria61
  2. European Toad Bufo bufo16
  3. Alpine Newt Mesotriton alpestris13

Mollusks

  1. Ash-black Slug Limax cinereoniger17
  2. Common European Ambersnail Succinea putris6
  3. Lemon Slug Malacolimax tenellus4

How a trip works

A trip has its own trail of lessons: meet six species, match them to new photos, then practice with four choices. Species you learn go into your Fieldbook, and starting a trip earns its Passport stamp. Your home place stays as it is.

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Species lists and counts from research-grade observations on iNaturalist, as of October 2026. Parks outside the U.S. are from the World Database on Protected Areas (UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, Protected Planet). KnowKi is not affiliated with the National Park Service or any park's managers. Free, with no ads, no account, and no purchases.