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Cayman Islands wildlife

233 species in the Cayman Islands dex: 70 Common, 82 Uncommon, 71 Rare, 10 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.

#021 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#042 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#075 🐦 Black Swift

#107 🐦 Wood Thrush

#140 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#183 🐦 Cuban Martin

#202 🐦 Cerulean Warbler

#220 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#236 🐦 Common Starling

#237 🐦 Masked Booby

Rare

#004 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#009 🐦 Tawny-shouldered Blackbird

#014 🐦 Northern Pintail

#015 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#016 🐦 Mallard · introduced

#018 🐦 Brown Noddy

#023 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#027 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#029 🐦 Redhead

#031 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#033 🐦 American Bittern

#037 🐦 Cuban Black Hawk

#041 🐦 Dunlin

#043 🐦 Red Knot

#051 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#052 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#053 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#054 🐦 Veery

#055 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#057 🐦 Chimney Swift

#067 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#077 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#085 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#087 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#088 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#089 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher

#106 🐦 Caspian Tern

#109 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#111 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#112 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#113 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#114 🐦 American Herring Gull

#118 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#121 🐦 Franklin's gull

#124 🐦 Swainson's Warbler

#125 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#128 🐦 Scaly-breasted Munia

#130 🐦 American Wigeon

#136 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#139 🐦 Shiny Cowbird

#144 🐦 Whimbrel

#149 🐦 Sooty Tern

#153 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#156 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#158 🐦 Painted Bunting

#161 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#162 🐦 American White Pelican

#164 🐦 Cave Swallow

#168 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#170 🐦 American Flamingo

#174 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#176 🐦 American Golden Plover

#180 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#181 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#184 🐦 Caribbean Martin

#186 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#214 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#224 🐦 Dickcissel

#230 🐦 Forster's Tern

#245 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#255 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#261 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#262 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#269 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#270 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#278 🦎 Maynard's Anole

#280 🦎 Woodslave

#285 🦎 Clouded Rock Iguana

#290 🦎 Northern Curly-tailed Lizard

#292 🦎 Mourning Gecko

#294 🦎 Cayman Least Gecko

Uncommon

#001 🦌 Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat

#002 🦌 Wolf · introduced

#012 🐦 Yellow-Crowned Amazon · introduced

#028 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#030 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#040 🐦 Sanderling

#044 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#045 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#046 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#047 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#050 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#056 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#059 🐦 Killdeer

#060 🐦 Black Tern

#063 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#065 🐦 Hen Harrier

#066 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#068 🐦 Mangrove Cuckoo

#071 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#073 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#078 🐦 Bobolink

#081 🐦 Reddish Egret

#090 🐦 White Ibis

#091 🐦 Merlin

#092 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#093 🐦 American Kestrel

#096 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#098 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#099 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#102 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#103 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#117 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#119 🐦 Caribbean Dove

#120 🐦 Laughing Gull

#123 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#142 🐦 Monk Parakeet · introduced

#148 🐦 Bridled Tern

#155 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#157 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#159 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#165 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#166 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#167 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#169 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#172 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#173 🐦 Summer Tanager

#175 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#182 🐦 Sora

#185 🐦 Purple Martin

#193 🐦 American Avocet

#195 🐦 Sand Martin

#198 🐦 Ovenbird

#200 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#201 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#203 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#204 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#207 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#208 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#210 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#217 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#219 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#222 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#227 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#231 🐦 Common Tern

#233 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#238 🐦 Brown Booby

#239 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#242 🐦 Tree Swallow

#250 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#252 🐦 Red-Legged Thrush

#258 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#260 🐦 American Barn Owl

#263 🐦 Black-whiskered Vireo

#265 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#266 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#268 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#279 🦎 Brown Anole

#283 🦎 Black Snake

#284 🦎 Grand Cayman Blue Iguana

#286 🐸 Greenhouse Frog

#288 🦎 House Gecko · introduced

#295 🦎 North Antillean slider

Common

#003 🦌 Central American Agouti

#006 🦌 Black Rat · introduced

#008 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#011 🐦 Cuban Amazon

#017 🐦 Anhinga

#024 🐦 Great Egret

#025 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#026 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#035 🐦 Cattle Egret

#038 🐦 Green Heron

#048 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#058 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#062 🐦 Antillean Nighthawk

#069 🐦 Bananaquit

#070 🐦 Northern Flicker

#072 🐦 Common Ground-Dove

#074 🐦 Smooth-billed Ani

#076 🐦 West Indian Whistling Duck

#079 🐦 Gray Catbird

#080 🐦 Little blue heron

#082 🐦 Snowy egret

#083 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#084 🐦 Caribbean Elaenia

#094 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird

#095 🐦 American Coot

#097 🐦 Common Moorhen

#104 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#105 🐦 Barn Swallow

#122 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#132 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#133 🐦 West Indian Woodpecker

#134 🐦 Cuban Bullfinch

#137 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#138 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#141 🐦 La Sagra's Flycatcher

#146 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#147 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#152 🐦 Osprey

#154 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#160 🐦 White-crowned Pigeon

#163 🐦 Brown Pelican

#178 🐦 Grey Plover

#179 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#191 🐦 Greater Antillean Grackle

#199 🐦 Northern Parula

#205 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#206 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#209 🐦 Palm Warbler

#211 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#213 🐦 American Redstart

#215 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#218 🐦 Vitelline Warbler

#221 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#223 🐦 Western Spindalis

#232 🐦 Least Tern

#244 🐦 Royal Tern

#246 🐦 Yellow-faced Grassquit

#247 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#248 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#249 🐦 Willet

#253 🐦 Loggerhead Kingbird

#254 🐦 Gray Kingbird

#264 🐦 Thick-billed Vireo

#267 🐦 Yucatan Vireo

#272 🐦 White-winged Dove

#273 🐦 Zenaida Dove

#276 🦎 Grand Cayman Anole

#289 🦎 Green iguana · introduced

#291 🦎 Cayman Curlytail

#293 🐸 Cuban Treefrog

Vagrants

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

#007 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#010 🐦 Yellow-naped Amazon

#013 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#019 🐦 Greylag Goose

#020 🐦 Snow Goose

#022 🐦 Limpkin

#032 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#034 🐦 Canada goose

#036 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#039 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#049 🐦 Ruff

#061 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#064 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#086 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#100 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#101 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#108 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#110 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#115 🐦 Black Rail

#116 🐦 Piratic Flycatcher

#126 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#127 🐦 Tricolored Munia

#129 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#131 🐦 Gadwall

#135 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#143 🐦 Masked Duck

#145 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#150 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#151 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#171 🐦 Western Tanager

#177 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#187 🐦 Black-capped Petrel

#188 🐦 Great Shearwater

#189 🐦 Audubon's Shearwater

#190 🐦 Great-tailed Grackle

#192 🐦 Clapper Rail

#194 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#196 🐦 Black Skimmer

#197 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#212 🐦 Pine Warbler

#216 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#225 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#226 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#228 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#229 🐦 Roseate Tern

#234 🐦 African Collared Dove

#235 🐦 White-collared Swift

#240 🐦 Antillean Palm-swift

#241 🐦 Least Grebe

#243 🐦 Elegant Tern

#251 🐦 House Wren

#256 🐦 Tropical Kingbird

#257 🐦 Fork-tailed Flycatcher

#259 🐦 Cassin's Kingbird

#271 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#274 🐦 Mourning Dove

#275 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#277 🦎 Cayman Brac Anole

#296 🦎 Cayman Islands Dwarf Boa

Marine

Seen offshore.

#005 🦌 Killer Whale

#281 🦎 Loggerhead

#282 🦎 Green Turtle

#287 🦎 Hawksbill turtle