Serengeti National Park covers 14,763 km² of grassland, savanna woodland and riverine forest in northern Tanzania, stretching from the Ngorongoro highlands to the Kenyan border and Lake Victoria. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981 and forms the core of an ecosystem that also includes the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the Maswa, Grumeti and Ikorongo reserves, Loliondo and Kenya's Maasai Mara. The park is best known for the annual migration of some 1.5 million wildebeest and 250,000 zebra, which calve on the southern short-grass plains between January and March, move north-west through the Grumeti corridor in May and June, cross the Mara River in the north between July and October, and return south with the short rains. Resident wildlife is dense year-round, with more than 3,000 lions in the ecosystem, cheetah on the plains, leopard along the Seronera river and over 500 bird species. Seronera in the centre is the administrative hub with the main airstrip; lodges and mobile camps are spread across the southern, central, western and northern sectors.
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