page_title: Dorob National Park
section_title: Wildlife
hierarchical_section_title: Dorob National Park / Wildlife
caption_attribution_description: Damara Tern Sternula balaenarum, Swakopmund to Walvis Bay
context_page_description: Dorob National Park is a protected area in Erongo, along the central Namibian coast, which is 1,600 kilometres in length. It was gazetted as a national park under the Nature Conservation Ordinance No.4 of 1975 on 1 December 2010, and with Namib-Naukluft Park covers an area of 107,540 square kilometres.
  The park extends from the Kuiseb Delta, north to the Ugab River, and west from the Atlantic Ocean to what was before the National West Coast Tourist Recreation Area. Some 75 species of birds flock to this coast, with nearly 1.6 million birds recorded on the coast.
context_section_description: This park has "a spectacular coastal dune belt, vast gravel plains, Namibia’s richest coastal area for birds, rich botanical diversity, and major ephemeral river systems and their river mouths."
  The central coast line of 1,600 kilometres (990 mi), which includes the Dorob National Park, is an area of hyper arid desert. Some 75 species of birds flock to this coast, with nearly 1.6 million birds recorded on the coast. BirdLife International has therefore included the park under the category of Important Bird Area. The Damara tern, (Sternula balaenarum),  a species of tern in the family Sternidae, a breeding seabird which is endemic to Namibia is considered a flagship species of the coastal area, and is found in the park, although non-breeding individuals will migrate to the north in winter. Some of the lichen fields are also part of this protected environment.
caption: Damara tern (Sternula balaenarum) in the park
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