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Learn the wildlife of Nyanga National Park

Zimbabwe

389 species have research-grade observations inside Nyanga 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. African Stonechat Saxicola torquatus8
  2. White-necked Raven Corvus albicollis6
  3. Augur Buzzard Buteo augur6
  4. Bronze Sunbird Nectarinia kilimensis4
  5. Holub's Golden-Weaver Ploceus xanthops4
  6. Yellow-bellied Waxbill Coccopygia quartinia4
  7. Black Sawwing Psalidoprocne pristoptera3
  8. Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus3
  9. African Yellow-Warbler Iduna natalensis3
  10. Southern Fiscal Lanius collaris3

Plants

  1. Common Protea Protea afra75
  2. Woodland Sugarbush Protea angolensis42
  3. Dwarf Savanna Sugarbush Protea welwitschii20
  4. Inyangani Sugarbush Protea inyanganiensis16
  5. Grassveld Tree Fern Cyathea dregei13
  6. Common bracken Pteridium aquilinum12
  7. Sagewood Buddleja salviifolia12
  8. Broadleaf Beechwood Faurea rochetiana11
  9. Common curry bush Hypericum revolutum10
  10. Fivefive Ministar Alepidea peduncularis10

Mammals

  1. Waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus6
  2. Chacma Baboon Papio ursinus5
  3. Common Wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus4
  4. Southern Reedbuck Redunca arundinum3
  5. Greater Kudu Tragelaphus strepsiceros3
  6. Klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus2
  7. Bush Duiker Sylvicapra grimmia2
  8. Rock Hyrax Procavia capensis2
  9. Greater Cane Rat Thryonomys swinderianus1
  10. Common Slender Mongoose Herpestes sanguineus1

Insects

  1. Wichgraf’s Hillside Brown Stygionympha wichgrafi4
  2. Koppie Foam Grasshopper Dictyophorus spumans3
  3. Issoria smaragdifera3
  4. Common Dotted Fruit Chafer Oxythyrea marginalis3
  5. Swamp Bluet Africallagma glaucum2
  6. Little Scarlet Crocothemis sanguinolenta2
  7. Pea Blue Lampides boeticus2
  8. Pioneer White Belenois aurota2
  9. Green Milkweed Locust Phymateus viridipes2
  10. Table Mountain Beauty Aeropetes tulbaghia2

Spiders and kin

  1. Yellow Lesser-Thicktail Scorpion Uroplectes flavoviridis4
  2. Opisthacanthus lamorali4
  3. Medium-wing Kitespider Gasteracantha milvoides2
  4. Cranial Horned Baboon Spider Ceratogyrus dolichocephalus1
  5. Straight Horned Baboon Spider Ceratogyrus marshalli1
  6. Leucauge argyrescens1

Reptiles

  1. Speckled Rock Skink Trachylepis punctatissima37
  2. FitzSimons' Dwarf Gecko Lygodactylus bernardi19
  3. Zimbabwean Girdled Lizard Cordylus rhodesianus12
  4. Common Dwarf Gecko Lygodactylus capensis7
  5. Variable Skink Trachylepis varia4
  6. Arnold's Montane Skink Proscelotes arnoldi3
  7. Common Brown Water Snake Lycodonomorphus rufulus1
  8. Kirk's Rock Agama Agama kirkii1
  9. Tropical Spiny Agama Agama armata1
  10. Flap-necked Chameleon Chamaeleo dilepis1

Amphibians

  1. Painted Reed Frog Hyperolius marmoratus10
  2. Common River Frog Amietia delalandii5
  3. Margined Reed Frog Hyperolius marginatus3
  4. Chimanimani Stream Frog Strongylopus rhodesianus2
  5. Inyanga Toad Vandijkophrynus inyangae2
  6. Guttural Toad Sclerophrys gutturalis2
  7. Senegal Running Frog Kassina senegalensis1

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.