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Bahamas wildlife

295 species in the Bahamas dex: 88 Common, 107 Uncommon, 87 Rare, 13 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.

#053 🐦 Greater scaup

#129 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher

#140 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#156 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#198 🐦 Nanday parakeet

#210 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#227 🐦 Red-billed Tropicbird

#232 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#234 🐦 Common Pheasant

#298 🐦 Dickcissel

#316 🐦 Antillean Palm-swift

#339 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#375 🦎 Brahminy blindsnake

Rare

#002 🦌 Domestic goat · introduced

#004 🦌 Ass · introduced

#008 🦌 Waterhouse's Leaf-nosed Bat

#019 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#021 🐦 Rosy-faced Lovebird

#024 🐦 Wood Duck

#027 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#028 🐦 Northern Pintail

#032 🐦 American Black Duck · introduced

#033 🐦 Anhinga

#037 🐦 Snow Goose

#038 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#051 🐦 Redhead

#054 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#055 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#057 🐦 Canada goose

#060 🐦 Bufflehead

#064 🐦 Sulphur-crested Cockatoo · introduced

#067 🐦 Dunlin

#068 🐦 Red Knot

#069 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#076 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#079 🐦 Canada Warbler

#080 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#083 🐦 Veery

#084 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#085 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#086 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#087 🐦 Chimney Swift

#091 🐦 Black Tern

#092 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#094 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#110 🐦 Black Vulture

#111 🐦 Fish Crow · introduced

#124 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#151 🐦 Caspian Tern

#152 🐦 Wood Thrush

#161 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#162 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#163 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#169 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#170 🐦 Swainson's Warbler

#172 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#175 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#177 🐦 Gadwall

#184 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#189 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird · introduced

#191 🐦 Northern Gannet

#216 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#221 🐦 Scaly-naped Pigeon

#222 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#223 🐦 American White Pelican

#225 🐦 Cave Swallow

#226 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#233 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#238 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#243 🐦 American Golden Plover

#247 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#261 🐦 American Avocet

#262 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#264 🐦 Sand Martin

#265 🐦 Black Skimmer

#271 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#277 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#281 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#299 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#300 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#301 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#304 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#306 🐦 Forster's Tern

#307 🐦 Common Tern

#313 🐦 Masked Booby

#315 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#329 🐦 American Robin

#333 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#335 🐦 Fork-tailed Flycatcher

#337 🐦 Western Kingbird

#340 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#348 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#349 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#354 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#359 🦎 Bahamian Green Anole

#363 🦎 Haitian Boa

#369 🐸 Greenhouse Frog

#378 🦎 Rum Cay Curlytail Lizard

#386 🦎 Pond Slider · introduced

#387 🦎 Jamaican slider

Uncommon

107

#001 🦌 Domesticated cattle · introduced

#006 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#012 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#014 🦌 Raccoon

#026 🐦 Cuban Amazon

#030 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#031 🐦 Mallard

#035 🐦 Brown Noddy

#039 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#043 🐦 Limpkin

#044 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#049 🐦 Burrowing Owl

#050 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#052 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#056 🐦 American Bittern

#061 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#065 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#066 🐦 Sanderling

#070 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#071 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#072 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#073 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#075 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#088 🐦 Piping Plover

#089 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#095 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#097 🐦 Hen Harrier

#099 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#101 🐦 Mangrove Cuckoo

#104 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#109 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#114 🐦 West Indian Whistling Duck

#115 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#117 🐦 Bobolink

#118 🐦 Pied Imperial Pigeon

#132 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#136 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#138 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#139 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#142 🐦 Bahama Yellowthroat

#144 🐦 Key West Quail-Dove

#147 🐦 American Oystercatcher

#148 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#154 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#155 🐦 Bahama Oriole

#159 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#160 🐦 American Herring Gull

#164 🐦 Caribbean Dove

#168 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#176 🐦 American Wigeon

#178 🐦 Pearly-eyed Thrasher

#180 🐦 West Indian Woodpecker

#185 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#190 🐦 Shiny Cowbird · introduced

#197 🐦 Monk Parakeet · introduced

#200 🐦 Inagua Woodstar

#201 🐦 Whimbrel

#203 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#208 🐦 Bridled Tern

#209 🐦 Sooty Tern

#211 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#213 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#217 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#219 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#228 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#235 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#236 🐦 American Flamingo

#237 🐦 Cuban Grassquit

#239 🐦 Summer Tanager

#240 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#248 🐦 Sora

#249 🐦 Purple Martin

#250 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#259 🐦 Boat-tailed Grackle · introduced

#260 🐦 Clapper Rail

#266 🐦 Great Lizard-Cuckoo

#267 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#272 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#276 🐦 Bahama Warbler

#278 🐦 Kirtland's Warbler · introduced

#279 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#284 🐦 Olive-capped Warbler

#286 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#289 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#293 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#305 🐦 Roseate Tern

#314 🐦 Brown Booby

#318 🐦 Tree Swallow

#319 🐦 Bahama Swallow

#323 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#326 🐦 Willet

#327 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#336 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#338 🐦 American Barn Owl

#344 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#346 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#347 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#351 🐦 White-winged Dove

#352 🐦 Zenaida Dove

#355 🦎 Bark Anole

#366 🦎 Bahamian Racer

#367 🦎 Northern Bahamian Rock Iguana

#368 🦎 White Cay Ground Iguana

#373 🦎 House Gecko

#380 🦎 Mourning Gecko

#381 🐸 Cuban Treefrog

#383 🦎 Auber's Ameiva

Common

#017 🦌 Mexican Free-tailed Bat

#020 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#022 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#029 🐦 White-cheeked Pintail

#045 🐦 Great Egret

#046 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#047 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#059 🐦 Cattle Egret · introduced

#063 🐦 Green Heron

#082 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#090 🐦 Killdeer

#093 🐦 Antillean Nighthawk

#102 🐦 Bananaquit

#105 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#106 🐦 Common Ground-Dove

#107 🐦 Cuban Pewee

#112 🐦 Smooth-billed Ani

#119 🐦 Gray Catbird

#120 🐦 Little blue heron

#121 🐦 Reddish Egret

#122 🐦 Snowy egret

#123 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#130 🐦 White Ibis

#131 🐦 Merlin

#133 🐦 American Kestrel

#134 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird

#135 🐦 American Coot

#137 🐦 Common Moorhen

#143 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#149 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#150 🐦 Barn Swallow

#157 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#158 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#165 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#166 🐦 Laughing Gull

#179 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#181 🐦 Black-faced Grassquit

#183 🐦 Greater Antillean Bullfinch

#186 🐦 Bahama Mockingbird

#187 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#188 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#195 🐦 La Sagra's Flycatcher

#199 🐦 Bahama Woodstar

#202 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#212 🐦 Osprey

#214 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#215 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#218 🐦 Painted Bunting

#220 🐦 White-crowned Pigeon

#224 🐦 Brown Pelican

#229 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#230 🐦 Neotropic cormorant

#242 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#244 🐦 Grey Plover

#245 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#246 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#263 🐦 Cuban Emerald

#268 🐦 Ovenbird

#269 🐦 Northern Parula

#270 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#273 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#274 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#275 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#280 🐦 Palm Warbler

#282 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#283 🐦 Pine Warbler

#285 🐦 American Redstart

#287 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#295 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#296 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#297 🐦 Western Spindalis

#309 🐦 Least Tern

#310 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#312 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#317 🐦 Least Grebe

#322 🐦 Royal Tern

#324 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#325 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#330 🐦 Red-Legged Thrush

#331 🐦 Loggerhead Kingbird

#332 🐦 Gray Kingbird

#341 🐦 Black-whiskered Vireo

#343 🐦 Thick-billed Vireo

#353 🐦 Mourning Dove

#358 🦎 Brown Anole

#364 🦎 Black Iguana

#374 🦎 Green iguana · introduced

#376 🦎 Northern Curly-tailed Lizard

Vagrants

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

#003 🦌 Bahamian Lesser Funnel-eared Bat

#005 🦌 Buffy Flower Bat

#007 🦌 Bahamian Hutia

#010 🦌 Blainville's Beaked Whale

#011 🦌 Gervais' Beaked Whale

#023 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#025 🐦 Egyptian Goose

#034 🐦 Black Noddy

#036 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#040 🐦 Blue-And-Yellow Macaw

#041 🐦 Military Macaw

#042 🐦 Chestnut-fronted Macaw

#048 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#058 🐦 Yellow-chevroned Parakeet

#062 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#074 🐦 Ruff

#077 🐦 Ringed Teal

#081 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#096 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#098 🐦 Sedge Wren

#100 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#103 🐦 Northern Flicker

#108 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#113 🐦 Red-Legged Honeycreeper

#116 🐦 Fulvous Whistling Duck

#125 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#126 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#127 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#128 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#141 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#145 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#146 🐦 White tern

#153 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#167 🐦 Franklin's gull

#171 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#173 🐦 Tricolored Munia

#174 🐦 Scaly-breasted Munia

#182 🐦 Budgerigar

#192 🐦 Wood Stork

#193 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#194 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#196 🐦 Brown-Crested Flycatcher

#204 🐦 Cockatiel

#206 🐦 Band-rumped storm-petrel

#207 🐦 Leach's Storm Petrel

#231 🐦 Red Phalarope

#241 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#251 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet

#252 🐦 Trindade Petrel

#257 🐦 Manx Shearwater

#258 🐦 Vermilion Flycatcher

#288 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#290 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#291 🐦 Saffron Finch

#292 🐦 Bahama Nuthatch

#294 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#302 🐦 South Polar Skua

#303 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#308 🐦 Arctic Tern

#311 🐦 African Collared Dove

#320 🐦 Black-browed Albatross

#321 🐦 Cabot's Tern

#328 🐦 House Wren

#334 🐦 Tropical Kingbird

#342 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#345 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#350 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#356 🦎 Knight Anole · introduced

#357 🦎 Bahama Anole

#362 🦎 Abaco Island Boa

#365 🦎 Bahaman Slender Blindsnake

#370 🐸 Bahamian Flat-headed Frog

#371 🦎 San Salvador Blind Snake

#377 🦎 Inagua Curlytail Lizard

#379 🦎 Spotted Curlytail Lizard

#382 🦎 Red Cornsnake · introduced

#384 🦎 Black-spotted Least Gecko

#385 🦎 Reef Gecko

Marine

Seen offshore.

#009 🦌 Humpback Whale

#013 🦌 Sperm Whale

#015 🦌 Atlantic Spotted Dolphin

#016 🦌 Rough-toothed dolphin

#018 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#078 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#205 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#253 🐦 Black-capped Petrel

#254 🐦 Great Shearwater

#255 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#256 🐦 Audubon's Shearwater

#360 🦎 Loggerhead

#361 🦎 Green Turtle

#372 🦎 Hawksbill turtle