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British Indian Ocean Territory wildlife

50 species in the British Indian Ocean Territory dex: 15 Common, 19 Uncommon, 14 Rare, 2 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.

#072 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#105 🐦 Grey-tailed Tattler

Rare

#012 🐦 Great Egret

#025 🐦 Little Stint

#030 🐦 Kentish Plover

#034 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#039 🐦 House crow · introduced

#041 🐦 Little Egret

#043 🐦 Amur Falcon

#053 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#068 🐦 Cotton Pygmy-goose

#069 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#075 🐦 Bridled Tern

#081 🐦 Red-tailed Tropicbird

#099 🐦 Saunders's Tern

#100 🐦 Masked Booby

Uncommon

#002 🦌 Black Rat · introduced

#005 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#015 🐦 Indian Pond Heron

#021 🐦 Sanderling

#023 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#032 🐦 Greater Sand Plover

#035 🐦 White-winged Tern

#047 🐦 Lesser frigatebird

#052 🐦 Common Moorhen

#063 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#067 🐦 Malagasy Turtle Dove · introduced

#076 🐦 Sooty Tern

#080 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#086 🐦 Grey Plover

#096 🐦 Common Tern

#101 🐦 Brown Booby

#114 🦎 Eastern Garden Lizard

#116 🦎 Common House Gecko

#117 🦎 Mourning Gecko

Common

#004 🐦 Common myna

#006 🐦 White-breasted Waterhen

#008 🐦 Brown Noddy

#009 🐦 Lesser Noddy

#016 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#019 🐦 Striated Heron

#046 🐦 Red Fody · introduced

#048 🐦 Great Frigatebird

#055 🐦 Zebra Dove

#058 🐦 White tern

#071 🐦 Whimbrel

#097 🐦 Black-naped Tern

#102 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#104 🐦 Greater Crested Tern

#108 🐦 Common Greenshank

Vagrants

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

#001 🦌 Ass · introduced

#007 🐦 Mallard

#010 🐦 Common Swift

#011 🐦 Pacific Swift

#013 🐦 Grey Heron

#014 🐦 Purple Heron

#018 🐦 Jouanin's Petrel

#020 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#022 🐦 Red Knot

#024 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#026 🐦 Ruff

#027 🐦 Red-necked stint

#028 🐦 Long-toed Stint

#029 🐦 Temminck's Stint

#031 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#033 🐦 Oriental Plover

#036 🐦 Pied Harrier

#037 🐦 Rock Dove

#038 🐦 European Roller

#040 🐦 Crab-Plover

#042 🐦 Intermediate egret

#044 🐦 Lesser Kestrel

#045 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#049 🐦 Watercock

#050 🐦 Common snipe

#051 🐦 Pin-tailed Snipe

#054 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#056 🐦 Oriental Pratincole

#057 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#059 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#060 🐦 White-throated Needletail

#061 🐦 Barn Swallow

#062 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#064 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#065 🐦 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

#066 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#070 🐦 Far Eastern Curlew

#073 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#074 🐦 Matsudaira's storm-petrel

#077 🐦 Osprey

#078 🐦 Rosy Starling

#079 🐦 European Honey Buzzard

#082 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#083 🐦 Greater Flamingo

#084 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#085 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#088 🐦 Flesh-footed shearwater

#090 🐦 Persian Shearwater

#091 🐦 White-eared Bulbul

#092 🐦 Sand Martin

#093 🐦 Garganey

#094 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#095 🐦 Roseate Tern

#098 🐦 Little Tern

#103 🐦 Lesser Crested Tern

#106 🐦 Spotted Redshank

#107 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#109 🐦 Green sandpiper

#110 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#111 🐦 Common Redshank

#112 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

#113 🐦 Terek Sandpiper

Marine

Seen offshore.

#003 🦌 Spinner Dolphin

#017 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#087 🐦 Tropical Shearwater · introduced

#089 🐦 Wedge-tailed shearwater

#115 🦎 Green Turtle