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Alberta wildlife

429 species in the Alberta dex: 100 Common, 153 Uncommon, 144 Rare, 32 Legendary. Tiers come from how often people record each species here; Legendary ones and protected species are never shown at their real location.

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Legendary

The rarest finds here: 150 points each. Their locations are always protected.

#005 🦌 Woodland caribou

#012 🦌 Grey wolf

#016 🦌 Canada lynx

#017 🦌 Bobcat

#018 🦌 Cougar

#019 🦌 Wolverine

#051 🦌 Little brown bat · location protected

#110 🐦 Great grey owl

#113 🐦 Boreal owl

#120 🐦 Whooping crane · location protected

#139 🐦 White-tailed ptarmigan

#187 🐦 Chestnut-collared longspur · location protected

#253 🦎 Greater short-horned lizard

#284 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#285 🐦 American Black Duck

#307 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#326 🐦 Southern Caracara

#354 🐦 Black Swift · location protected

#389 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike · location protected

#408 🐦 Western Screech-owl

#410 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker · location protected

#416 🐦 Budgerigar

#427 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#432 🐦 Sage Thrasher · location protected

#437 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#447 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#450 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#471 🐦 Audubon's Warbler

#496 🐦 Dickcissel

#501 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#508 🐦 Ancient Murrelet

#526 🐦 White-winged Dove

Rare

144

#007 🦌 Mountain goat

#021 🦌 American marten

#023 🦌 Long-tailed weasel

#024 🦌 Least weasel

#026 🦌 American badger

#029 🦌 River otter

#034 🦌 Northern flying squirrel

#041 🦌 Hoary marmot

#042 🦌 Yellow-bellied marmot

#045 🦌 American pika

#053 🦌 Hoary bat

#054 🦌 Silver-haired bat

#064 🐦 Black-crowned night-heron

#065 🐦 American bittern

#066 🐦 Trumpeter swan

#086 🐦 Harlequin duck

#088 🐦 Hooded merganser

#091 🐦 Golden eagle

#097 🐦 Northern goshawk

#100 🐦 Ferruginous hawk

#105 🐦 Peregrine falcon

#106 🐦 Prairie falcon

#109 🐦 Snowy owl

#111 🐦 Barred owl

#112 🐦 Northern hawk owl

#114 🐦 Northern saw-whet owl

#115 🐦 Long-eared owl

#116 🐦 Short-eared owl

#118 🐦 Northern pygmy-owl

#125 🐦 Long-billed curlew

#136 🐦 Spruce grouse

#137 🐦 Dusky grouse

#138 🐦 Sharp-tailed grouse

#142 🐦 Wild turkey

#147 🐦 Calliope hummingbird

#155 🐦 American three-toed woodpecker

#156 🐦 Black-backed woodpecker

#162 🐦 Steller's jay

#170 🐦 American dipper

#186 🐦 Sprague's pipit

#200 🐦 Yellow warbler

#216 🐦 Baird's sparrow

#224 🐦 Bullock's oriole

#226 🐦 Black-headed grosbeak

#227 🐦 Lazuli bunting

#238 🐦 Grey-crowned rosy-finch

#244 🐸 Plains spadefoot

#246 🐸 Long-toed salamander

#250 🦎 Bullsnake

#251 🦎 Prairie rattlesnake

#256 🦌 Horse · introduced

#257 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#259 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#261 🦌 Western Small-footed Myotis

#262 🦌 Long-eared Myotis

#265 🦌 Bushy-tailed Woodrat

#266 🦌 European Rabbit · introduced

#267 🦌 Franklin's Ground Squirrel

#275 🐦 Clark's Grebe

#278 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#280 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#288 🐦 Ross's Goose

#291 🐦 Black-chinned Hummingbird

#292 🐦 Great Egret

#294 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#300 🐦 Brent Goose

#302 🐦 Cattle Egret

#305 🐦 Lark Bunting

#306 🐦 Smith's Longspur

#308 🐦 Sanderling

#309 🐦 Dunlin

#311 🐦 Red Knot

#313 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#316 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#320 🐦 Ruff

#322 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#324 🐦 Anna's Hummingbird

#328 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#331 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#333 🐦 Vaux's Swift

#334 🐦 Piping Plover

#341 🐦 Sedge Wren

#342 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#344 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#349 🐦 Yellow Rail

#355 🐦 Bobolink

#358 🐦 Snowy egret

#360 🐦 Western Flycatcher

#361 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#362 🐦 Hammond's Flycatcher

#363 🐦 Dusky Flycatcher

#368 🐦 Brambling

#372 🐦 Yellow-billed Loon

#373 🐦 Pacific Loon

#374 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#380 🐦 Cassin's Finch

#381 🐦 Little Gull

#382 🐦 Caspian Tern

#384 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#385 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#386 🐦 Willow Ptarmigan

#390 🐦 Short-billed Gull

#391 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#392 🐦 Glaucous-winged gull

#393 🐦 Iceland Gull

#394 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#401 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#402 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#404 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#406 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#407 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#409 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#412 🐦 Lewis's Woodpecker

#413 🐦 Black Scoter

#420 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#424 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#426 🐦 Whimbrel

#431 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#439 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#441 🐦 Common Poorwill

#442 🐦 Red Phalarope

#448 🐦 Summer Tanager

#451 🐦 American Golden Plover

#454 🐦 Chestnut-backed Chickadee

#461 🐦 Virginia Rail

#463 🐦 Thick-billed Longspur

#464 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#470 🐦 Northern Parula

#472 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#473 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#477 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#481 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#486 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#487 🐦 Western Bluebird

#488 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#495 🐦 Lesser Goldfinch

#497 🐦 Brewer's Sparrow

#502 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#505 🐦 Arctic Tern

#520 🐦 Cassin's Vireo

#525 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#527 🐦 Golden-crowned Sparrow

#528 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#529 🐸 Great Plains Toad

Uncommon

153

#002 🦌 Elk

#010 🦌 Black bear

#011 🦌 Grizzly bear

#014 🦌 Red fox

#022 🦌 Short-tailed weasel

#025 🦌 American mink

#028 🦌 Raccoon

#030 🦌 Beaver

#032 🦌 Porcupine

#037 🦌 Golden-mantled ground squirrel

#038 🦌 Thirteen-lined ground squirrel

#040 🦌 Yellow-pine chipmunk

#043 🦌 Woodchuck

#044 🦌 Northern pocket gopher

#048 🦌 Nuttall's cottontail

#052 🦌 Big brown bat

#055 🐦 Common loon

#056 🐦 Red-necked grebe

#057 🐦 Western grebe

#058 🐦 Eared grebe

#059 🐦 Horned grebe

#060 🐦 Pied-billed grebe

#061 🐦 American white pelican

#063 🐦 Great blue heron

#067 🐦 Tundra swan

#069 🐦 Snow goose

#070 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#078 🐦 Cinnamon teal

#079 🐦 Canvasback

#080 🐦 Redhead

#082 🐦 Ring-necked duck

#085 🐦 Barrow's goldeneye

#087 🐦 Common merganser

#089 🐦 Ruddy duck

#090 🐦 Bald eagle

#092 🐦 Osprey

#093 🐦 Turkey vulture

#094 🐦 Northern harrier

#095 🐦 Sharp-shinned hawk

#101 🐦 Rough-legged hawk

#102 🐦 Broad-winged hawk

#104 🐦 Merlin

#108 🐦 Great horned owl

#119 🐦 Sandhill crane

#122 🐦 American avocet

#124 🐦 Marbled godwit

#126 🐦 Willet

#127 🐦 Wilson's phalarope

#133 🐦 Black tern

#134 🐦 Common tern

#135 🐦 Ruffed grouse

#140 🐦 Grey partridge · introduced

#141 🐦 Ring-necked pheasant · introduced

#145 🐦 Ruby-throated hummingbird

#146 🐦 Rufous hummingbird

#148 🐦 Belted kingfisher

#151 🐦 Pileated woodpecker

#153 🐦 Yellow-bellied sapsucker

#154 🐦 Red-naped sapsucker

#161 🐦 Canada jay

#163 🐦 Clark's nutcracker

#165 🐦 Mountain chickadee

#166 🐦 Boreal chickadee

#168 🐦 White-breasted nuthatch

#169 🐦 Brown creeper

#172 🐦 Marsh wren

#174 🐦 Golden-crowned kinglet

#175 🐦 Mountain bluebird

#177 🐦 Varied thrush

#179 🐦 Hermit thrush

#180 🐦 Townsend's solitaire

#182 🐦 Bohemian waxwing

#188 🐦 Snow bunting

#189 🐦 Lapland longspur

#193 🐦 Bank swallow

#195 🐦 Western kingbird

#197 🐦 Olive-sided flycatcher

#203 🐦 American redstart

#205 🐦 Blackpoll warbler

#206 🐦 Wilson's warbler

#215 🐦 Lincoln's sparrow

#223 🐦 Baltimore oriole

#225 🐦 Rose-breasted grosbeak

#228 🐦 Western tanager

#229 🐦 Pine grosbeak

#230 🐦 Evening grosbeak

#234 🐦 White-winged crossbill

#235 🐦 Red crossbill

#236 🐦 Purple finch

#242 🐸 Western toad

#243 🐸 Canadian toad

#245 🐸 Tiger salamander

#260 🦌 Southern Red-backed Vole

#277 🐦 Wood Duck

#281 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#282 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#290 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#297 🐦 Greater scaup

#298 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#301 🐦 Cackling Goose

#310 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#314 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#317 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#319 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#321 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#327 🐦 Canada Warbler

#330 🐦 Veery

#335 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#336 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#337 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#338 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#359 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#364 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#366 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#367 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#376 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#377 🐦 MacGillivray's Warbler

#388 🐦 Northern Shrike

#398 🐦 American Herring Gull

#399 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#403 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#414 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#415 🐦 Surf Scoter

#417 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#419 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#421 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#434 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#436 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#443 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#446 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#449 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#453 🐦 Grey Plover

#457 🐦 Purple Martin

#465 🐦 Rock Wren

#466 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#467 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#469 🐦 Ovenbird

#478 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#480 🐦 Palm Warbler

#484 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#485 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#499 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#500 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#504 🐦 Forster's Tern

#507 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#509 🐦 Violet-green Swallow

#510 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#514 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#515 🐦 Winter Wren

#516 🐦 Pacific Wren

#523 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#524 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#530 🐸 Columbia Spotted Frog

Common

100

#001 🦌 Moose

#003 🦌 White-tailed deer

#004 🦌 Mule deer

#006 🦌 Bighorn sheep

#008 🦌 Pronghorn

#009 🦌 Bison

#013 🦌 Coyote

#027 🦌 Striped skunk

#031 🦌 Muskrat

#033 🦌 Red squirrel

#035 🦌 Richardson's ground squirrel

#036 🦌 Columbian ground squirrel

#039 🦌 Least chipmunk

#046 🦌 Snowshoe hare

#047 🦌 White-tailed jackrabbit

#049 🦌 Deer mouse

#062 🐦 Double-crested cormorant

#068 🐦 Canada goose

#071 🐦 Mallard

#072 🐦 Northern pintail

#073 🐦 Northern shoveler

#074 🐦 Gadwall

#075 🐦 American wigeon

#076 🐦 Blue-winged teal

#077 🐦 Green-winged teal

#081 🐦 Lesser scaup

#083 🐦 Bufflehead

#084 🐦 Common goldeneye

#098 🐦 Red-tailed hawk

#099 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#103 🐦 American kestrel

#121 🐦 Killdeer

#123 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#128 🐦 Spotted sandpiper

#129 🐦 Wilson's snipe

#130 🐦 Franklin's gull

#131 🐦 Ring-billed gull

#132 🐦 California gull

#143 🐦 Mourning dove

#144 🐦 Rock pigeon · introduced

#149 🐦 Downy woodpecker

#150 🐦 Hairy woodpecker

#152 🐦 Northern flicker

#157 🐦 Black-billed magpie

#158 🐦 Common raven

#159 🐦 American crow

#160 🐦 Blue jay

#164 🐦 Black-capped chickadee

#167 🐦 Red-breasted nuthatch

#171 🐦 House wren

#173 🐦 Ruby-crowned kinglet

#176 🐦 American robin

#178 🐦 Swainson's thrush

#181 🐦 Cedar waxwing

#183 🐦 European starling · introduced

#184 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#185 🐦 Horned lark

#190 🐦 Tree swallow

#191 🐦 Barn swallow

#192 🐦 Cliff swallow

#194 🐦 Eastern kingbird

#196 🐦 Least flycatcher

#198 🐦 Red-eyed vireo

#199 🐦 Warbling vireo

#201 🐦 Yellow-rumped warbler

#202 🐦 Common yellowthroat

#204 🐦 Tennessee warbler

#207 🐦 Song sparrow

#208 🐦 Savannah sparrow

#209 🐦 Vesper sparrow

#210 🐦 Clay-colored sparrow

#211 🐦 Chipping sparrow

#212 🐦 White-throated sparrow

#213 🐦 White-crowned sparrow

#214 🐦 Dark-eyed junco

#217 🐦 Red-winged blackbird

#218 🐦 Yellow-headed blackbird

#219 🐦 Brewer's blackbird

#220 🐦 Common grackle

#221 🐦 Brown-headed cowbird

#222 🐦 Western meadowlark

#231 🐦 Pine siskin

#232 🐦 American goldfinch

#233 🐦 Common redpoll

#237 🐦 House finch

#239 🐸 Wood frog

#240 🐸 Boreal chorus frog

#241 🐸 Northern leopard frog

#247 🦎 Red-sided garter snake

#248 🦎 Wandering garter snake

#249 🦎 Plains garter snake

#252 🦎 Western painted turtle

#270 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#346 🐦 Western wood-pewee

#356 🐦 Gray Catbird

#369 🐦 American Coot

#456 🐦 Sora

#482 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#511 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#513 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

Vagrants

101

Rare visitors from elsewhere. Listed, but outside the completion count.

#015 🦌 Swift fox

#020 🦌 Fisher

#050 🦌 Meadow vole

#096 🐦 Cooper's hawk

#107 🐦 Gyrfalcon

#117 🐦 Burrowing owl · location protected

#254 🦌 Black-tailed Prairie Dog

#255 🦌 Ord's kangaroo rat · location protected

#258 🦌 Nearctic Brown Lemming

#263 🦌 Long-legged Myotis

#264 🦌 Red-tailed Chipmunk

#268 🦌 Black Rat · introduced

#269 🦌 Western Harvest Mouse

#271 🦌 Arctic Shrew

#272 🦌 Cinereus Shrew

#273 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#274 🦌 Western Jumping Mouse

#276 🐦 White-throated Swift

#279 🐦 Red-legged Partridge

#283 🐦 Black-Throated Sparrow

#286 🐦 Greylag Goose

#287 🐦 Swan Goose

#289 🐦 Tundra Bean Goose

#293 🐦 Grey Heron

#295 🐦 Sagebrush Sparrow

#296 🐦 Tufted Duck

#299 🐦 Long-billed Murrelet

#303 🐦 Green Heron

#304 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#312 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#315 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#318 🐦 Little Stint

#323 🐦 California Quail · introduced

#325 🐦 Costa's Hummingbird

#329 🐦 European Goldfinch

#332 🐦 Chimney Swift

#339 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#340 🐦 Golden Pheasant

#343 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#345 🐦 Northern Bobwhite · location protected

#347 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#348 🐦 Black Vulture

#350 🐦 Black swan

#351 🐦 Whooper Swan

#352 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#353 🐦 Broad-billed Hummingbird

#357 🐦 Little blue heron

#365 🐦 Grey Flycatcher

#370 🐦 Common Moorhen

#371 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#375 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#378 🐦 Common Crane

#379 🐦 Pinyon Jay

#383 🐦 Wood Thrush

#387 🐦 Rock Ptarmigan

#395 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#396 🐦 Western Gull

#397 🐦 Slaty-backed Gull

#400 🐦 Lucy's Warbler

#405 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#411 🐦 Acorn Woodpecker

#418 🐦 Smew

#422 🐦 Eastern Yellow Wagtail

#423 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#425 🐦 Hudsonian Whimbrel

#428 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#429 🐦 Cockatiel

#430 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#433 🐦 Ivory Gull · location protected

#435 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow · introduced

#438 🐦 Painted Bunting

#440 🐦 Band-tailed Pigeon

#444 🐦 Green-tailed Towhee

#445 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#452 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#455 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#458 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler · location protected

#459 🐦 Flammulated Owl

#460 🐦 Great-tailed Grackle

#462 🐦 Ross's Gull

#468 🐦 American Woodcock

#474 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#475 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#476 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#479 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#483 🐦 Pine Warbler

#489 🐦 Pygmy Nuthatch

#490 🐦 Common Eider

#491 🐦 King Eider

#492 🐦 Garganey

#493 🐦 Red-breasted Sapsucker

#494 🐦 Williamson's Sapsucker · location protected

#498 🐦 Field Sparrow

#503 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#506 🐦 Least Tern

#512 🐦 Wandering Tattler

#517 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#518 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#519 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#521 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#522 🐦 White-eyed Vireo