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Christmas Island wildlife

54 species in the Christmas Island dex: 15 Common, 22 Uncommon, 15 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.

#028 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#044 🐦 Oriental Cuckoo

Rare

#018 🐦 Pacific Swift

#022 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#039 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#043 🐦 Rock Dove

#046 🐦 Asian House Martin

#051 🐦 Little Egret

#056 🐦 Oriental dollarbird

#058 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#064 🐦 Pin-tailed Snipe

#070 🐦 White-headed Stilt

#079 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#088 🐦 Northern Boobook

#091 🐦 Whimbrel

#108 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#119 🐦 Common Greenshank

Uncommon

#001 🦌 Black-eared Flying Fox

#005 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#012 🐦 White-breasted Waterhen

#019 🐦 Great Egret

#025 🐦 Striated Heron

#037 🐦 Greater Sand Plover

#052 🐦 Intermediate egret

#053 🐦 White-faced Heron

#054 🐦 Pacific Reef Heron

#055 🐦 Asian Koel

#061 🐦 Lesser frigatebird

#067 🐦 Oriental Pratincole

#069 🐦 Malayan Night Heron

#073 🐦 Barn Swallow

#081 🐦 Java Sparrow

#084 🐦 Grey Wagtail

#086 🐦 Eastern Yellow Wagtail

#089 🐦 Christmas Boobook

#107 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#124 🦎 Common House Gecko

#125 🦎 Common Wolf Snake

#126 🦎 Christmas Island Grass-Skink

Common

#014 🐦 Brown Noddy

#035 🐦 Common Emerald Dove

#042 🐦 Christmas Island Swiftlet

#049 🐦 Christmas Imperial Pigeon

#057 🐦 Nankeen Kestrel

#060 🐦 Christmas Frigatebird

#062 🐦 Great Frigatebird

#065 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#095 🐦 Abbott's booby

#096 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow

#101 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#102 🐦 Red-tailed Tropicbird

#112 🐦 Brown Booby

#113 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#123 🐦 Christmas White-eye

Vagrants

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

#002 🐦 Japanese Sparrowhawk

#003 🐦 Oriental Reed-warbler

#004 🐦 Manchurian Reed Warbler

#006 🐦 Himalayan Swiftlet

#007 🐦 Edible-nest Swiftlet

#008 🐦 Black-nest Swiftlet

#009 🐦 Mossy-nest Swiftlet

#010 🐦 Daurian Starling

#011 🐦 Common Kingfisher

#013 🐦 Pacific Black Duck

#015 🐦 Lesser Noddy

#016 🐦 Red-throated Pipit

#017 🐦 House Swift

#020 🐦 Purple Heron

#021 🐦 Chinese Pond Heron

#023 🐦 Cattle Egret

#024 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#026 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#027 🐦 Sanderling

#029 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#030 🐦 Red-necked stint

#031 🐦 Long-toed Stint

#032 🐦 Jungle Nightjar

#033 🐦 Grey Nightjar

#034 🐦 Red-rumped Swallow

#036 🐦 Little Ringed Plover

#038 🐦 Oriental Plover

#040 🐦 Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo

#041 🐦 Glossy Swiftlet

#045 🐦 Blue-and-white Flycatcher

#047 🐦 Common house martin

#048 🐦 Forest Wagtail

#050 🐦 Black Bittern

#059 🐦 Eurasian Hobby

#063 🐦 Watercock

#066 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#068 🐦 Japanese Night Heron

#071 🐦 White-throated Needletail

#072 🐦 Silver-backed Needletail

#074 🐦 Cinnamon Bittern

#075 🐦 Von Schrenck's Bittern

#076 🐦 Yellow Bittern

#077 🐦 Brown Shrike

#078 🐦 Tiger Shrike

#080 🐦 Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler

#082 🐦 Siberian Rubythroat

#083 🐦 White Wagtail

#085 🐦 Citrine Wagtail

#087 🐦 Dark-sided Flycatcher

#090 🐦 Little Curlew

#092 🐦 Rufous Night Heron

#093 🐦 Bridled Tern

#094 🐦 Sooty Tern

#097 🐦 Rosy Starling

#098 🐦 Crested Honey Buzzard

#099 🐦 Tree martin

#100 🐦 Red-billed Tropicbird

#103 🐦 Arctic Warbler

#104 🐦 Dusky warbler

#105 🐦 Blue-winged Pitta

#106 🐦 Fairy Pitta

#109 🐦 Grey Plover

#110 🐦 Wedge-tailed shearwater

#111 🐦 Red Turtle Dove

#114 🐦 Lesser Crested Tern

#115 🐦 Australian White Ibis · introduced

#116 🐦 Sacred Kingfisher

#117 🐦 Grey-tailed Tattler

#118 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#120 🐦 Common Redshank

#121 🐦 Island Thrush

#122 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe