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Cabo Verde wildlife

99 species in the Cabo Verde dex: 31 Common, 32 Uncommon, 31 Rare, 5 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.

#017 🐦 Red-throated Pipit

#034 🐦 Red Knot

#132 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#133 🐦 Great Skua

#154 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

Rare

#001 🦌 Wolf

#003 🦌 Green Monkey

#014 🐦 Northern Pintail

#020 🐦 Common Swift

#045 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#046 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#053 🐦 Common house martin

#054 🐦 Black Heron

#061 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#063 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird · introduced

#068 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#069 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#070 🐦 Eurasian Oystercatcher

#076 🐦 Caspian Tern

#078 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#081 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#086 🐦 Black Kite

#089 🐦 Egyptian Vulture

#093 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#099 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#110 🐦 Willow Warbler

#116 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet

#126 🐦 Sand Martin

#131 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#135 🐦 Common Tern

#136 🐦 Arctic Tern

#140 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#146 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#147 🐦 Spotted Redshank

#160 🦎 Sal Island Skink

#163 🦎 Brook's House Gecko

Uncommon

#004 🦌 Ass

#009 🐦 Cape Verde Warbler

#012 🐦 Raso Lark

#015 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#021 🐦 Great Egret

#024 🐦 Purple Heron

#025 🐦 Squacco Heron

#031 🐦 Common Buzzard

#033 🐦 Dunlin

#035 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#037 🐦 Little Stint

#038 🐦 Ruff

#050 🐦 Common Quail

#052 🐦 Cream-Colored Courser

#056 🐦 Western reef heron

#057 🐦 Intermediate egret

#065 🐦 Common snipe

#067 🐦 Common Moorhen

#074 🐦 Barn Swallow

#079 🐦 Yellow-legged Gull

#080 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#101 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#111 🐦 Eurasian Spoonbill

#112 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#115 🐦 Grey Plover

#143 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#148 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#150 🐦 Green sandpiper

#152 🐦 Common Redshank

#153 🐦 Barn Owl

#159 🦎 Fogo's Skink

#164 🦎 House Gecko

Common

#002 🦌 Domestic goat · introduced

#005 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#010 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#011 🐦 Greater Hoopoe-lark

#013 🐦 Bar-tailed Lark

#019 🐦 Cape Verde Swift

#022 🐦 Grey Heron

#026 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#029 🐦 Cattle Egret

#032 🐦 Sanderling

#042 🐦 Kentish Plover

#043 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#048 🐦 Rock Dove

#049 🐦 Brown-necked Raven

#055 🐦 Little Egret

#058 🐦 Black-crowned Sparrow-lark

#059 🐦 Common Waxbill

#062 🐦 Common Kestrel

#071 🐦 Grey-headed Kingfisher

#072 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#091 🐦 Whimbrel

#092 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#100 🐦 Osprey

#102 🐦 Spanish Sparrow

#103 🐦 Iago Sparrow

#106 🐦 Red-billed Tropicbird

#138 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#142 🐦 Brown Booby

#144 🐦 Eurasian Blackcap

#145 🐦 Spectacled Warbler

#149 🐦 Common Greenshank

Vagrants

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

#007 🦌 Pantropical Spotted Dolphin

#016 🐦 Mallard

#018 🐦 Tree pipit

#023 🐦 Black-Headed Heron

#027 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#028 🐦 Tufted Duck

#036 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#039 🐦 Temminck's Stint

#044 🐦 Black Tern

#047 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#051 🐦 African Crake

#060 🐦 Yellow-crowned Bishop

#064 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#066 🐦 Lesser Moorhen

#073 🐦 Melodious Warbler

#075 🐦 European Storm-Petrel

#077 🐦 Great Grey Shrike

#082 🐦 Jack snipe

#083 🐦 Gadwall

#084 🐦 European Bee-eater

#085 🐦 Long-tailed Cormorant

#087 🐦 White Wagtail

#088 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#090 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#094 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#095 🐦 Band-rumped storm-petrel · introduced

#098 🐦 Namaqua Dove

#104 🐦 Sudan Golden Sparrow

#107 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#108 🐦 Great Cormorant

#109 🐦 Red Phalarope

#113 🐦 Village Weaver

#114 🐦 American Golden Plover

#118 🐦 Soft-plumaged Petrel

#121 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#123 🐦 Red-billed Quelea

#124 🐦 Thick-billed Lark

#125 🐦 Pied Avocet

#127 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake · introduced

#128 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#129 🐦 Garganey

#130 🐦 Laughing Dove

#134 🐦 Roseate Tern

#137 🐦 Little Tern

#139 🐦 African Collared Dove

#141 🐦 Masked Booby

#151 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#155 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#158 🦎 Delalande's Skink

#161 🦎 Vaillant's Mabuya

#166 🐸 African Common Toad

Marine

Seen offshore.

#006 🦌 Humpback Whale

#008 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#030 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#040 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#041 🐦 Cape Verde Shearwater

#096 🐦 Cape Verde Storm-Petrel

#097 🐦 Leach's Storm Petrel

#105 🐦 White-faced Storm-petrel · introduced

#117 🐦 Fea's Petrel

#119 🐦 Boyd's Shearwater

#120 🐦 Great Shearwater

#122 🐦 Manx Shearwater

#156 🦎 Loggerhead

#157 🦎 Green Turtle

#162 🦎 Leatherback Sea Turtle

#165 🦎 Olive Ridley