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Learn the wildlife of Daan Viljoen Game Park National Park

Namibia

365 species have research-grade observations inside Daan Viljoen Game Park 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. White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali43
  2. Common Ostrich Struthio camelus24
  3. Red-billed Spurfowl Pternistis adspersus24
  4. Short-toed Rock-Thrush Monticola brevipes20
  5. Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus18
  6. Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca17
  7. Southern Crag-Martin Ptyonoprogne fuligula16
  8. Mountain Chat Myrmecocichla monticola15
  9. Groundscraper Thrush Turdus litsitsirupa15
  10. Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis14

Plants

  1. Camel Thorn Vachellia erioloba22
  2. Wild Camphorbush Tarchonanthus camphoratus17
  3. Wild marigold Tagetes minuta8
  4. Sweet Thorn Vachellia karroo8
  5. Long-spined thorn-apple Datura ferox7
  6. Buffalo-thorn Ziziphus mucronata7
  7. Soft Feather Pappus Grass Enneapogon cenchroides7
  8. Natal grass Melinis repens6
  9. Poverty Nidorella resedifolia6
  10. Black thorn Senegalia mellifera5

Mammals

  1. Common Wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus51
  2. Southern Giraffe Giraffa giraffa26
  3. Common Warthog Phacochoerus africanus24
  4. Chacma Baboon Papio ursinus23
  5. Hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus15
  6. Rock Hyrax Procavia capensis10
  7. Greater Kudu Tragelaphus strepsiceros9
  8. Springbok Antidorcas marsupialis8
  9. Gemsbok Oryx gazella7
  10. Common Eland Tragelaphus oryx7

Insects

  1. Orange-winged Dropwing Trithemis kirbyi8
  2. Plain Tiger Butterfly Danaus chrysippus6
  3. Trichophiala devylderi6
  4. Brown Armoured Corncricket Acanthoplus discoidalis5
  5. Hycleus hybridus5
  6. Yellow Pansy Junonia hierta4
  7. Broad Scarlet Crocothemis erythraea4
  8. Lunate Lady Beetle Cheilomenes lunata4
  9. Danaid Eggfly Hypolimnas misippus3
  10. Maasai Sprite Pseudagrion massaicum3

Spiders and kin

  1. Banded-legged golden orb-web spider Trichonephila senegalensis19
  2. Smeringopus similis9
  3. Common Garden Orbweb Spider Argiope australis1
  4. Green-pea Spider Araneus apricus1
  5. African Green Lynx Spider Peucetia viridis1
  6. Small Thicktail Scorpion Parabuthus brevimanus1
  7. Uroplectes otjimbinguensis1
  8. Palystella sexmaculata1
  9. Rosy-banded crab spider Misumenops rubrodecoratus1
  10. Blondeli's Hairy Field Spider Neoscona blondeli1

Reptiles

  1. Namib Rock Agama Agama planiceps26
  2. Variegated Skink Trachylepis variegata6
  3. Fischer's Thick-toed Gecko Chondrodactylus laevigatus5
  4. Leopard Tortoise Stigmochelys pardalis4
  5. Western Sand Lizard Pedioplanis undata3
  6. Helmeted Turtle Pelomedusa subrufa3
  7. Puff Adder Bitis arietans2
  8. Western Rock Skink Trachylepis sulcata2
  9. Rock Monitor Varanus albigularis2
  10. Kalahari Tree Skink Trachylepis spilogaster2

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.