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Cocos (Keeling) Islands wildlife

69 species in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands dex: 21 Common, 24 Uncommon, 21 Rare, 3 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 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#034 🐦 Little Stint

#037 🐦 Great Knot

Rare

#006 🐦 Common Kingfisher

#017 🐦 Pacific Swift

#018 🐦 Great Egret

#032 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#033 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#044 🐦 White-winged Tern

#054 🐦 Oriental Cuckoo

#056 🐦 Blue-and-white Flycatcher

#068 🐦 Nankeen Kestrel

#086 🐦 White-throated Needletail

#102 🐦 Eastern Yellow Wagtail

#104 🐦 Asian Brown Flycatcher

#108 🐦 Far Eastern Curlew

#114 🐦 Sooty Tern

#117 🐦 Rosy Starling

#119 🐦 Tree martin

#121 🐦 Red-tailed Tropicbird

#122 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#132 🐦 Little Tern

#146 🐦 Eyebrowed thrush

#149 🐦 Christmas White-eye

Uncommon

#008 🐦 Northern Pintail

#020 🐦 Chinese Pond Heron

#021 🐦 Javan Pond Heron

#026 🐦 Striated Heron

#029 🐦 Sanderling

#035 🐦 Red-necked stint

#040 🐦 Greater Sand Plover

#060 🐦 Little Egret

#061 🐦 Western reef heron

#063 🐦 White-faced Heron

#075 🐦 Watercock

#076 🐦 Pin-tailed Snipe

#078 🐦 Buff-banded Rail

#082 🐦 Oriental Pratincole

#093 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#094 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#107 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#125 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#126 🐦 Grey Plover

#133 🐦 Saunders's Tern

#135 🐦 Masked Booby

#142 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#143 🐦 Common Greenshank

#145 🐦 Common Redshank

Common

#003 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#007 🐦 White-breasted Waterhen

#011 🐦 Pacific Black Duck

#012 🐦 Brown Noddy

#022 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#062 🐦 Intermediate egret

#065 🐦 Pacific Reef Heron

#066 🐦 Asian Koel

#067 🐦 Oriental dollarbird

#073 🐦 Lesser frigatebird

#074 🐦 Great Frigatebird

#079 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#080 🐦 Green Junglefowl

#084 🐦 White tern

#088 🐦 Barn Swallow

#110 🐦 Whimbrel

#111 🐦 Rufous Night Heron

#120 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#136 🐦 Brown Booby

#137 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#141 🐦 Grey-tailed Tattler

Vagrants

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

#001 🐦 Japanese Sparrowhawk

#002 🐦 Chinese Sparrowhawk

#004 🐦 Edible-nest Swiftlet

#005 🐦 Daurian Starling

#009 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#010 🐦 Grey Teal · introduced

#013 🐦 Red-throated Pipit

#014 🐦 Tree pipit

#015 🐦 Common Swift

#016 🐦 House Swift

#019 🐦 Purple Heron

#023 🐦 Cattle Egret

#024 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#025 🐦 Jouanin's Petrel

#027 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#030 🐦 Red Knot

#031 🐦 Broad-billed Sandpiper

#036 🐦 Long-toed Stint

#038 🐦 Kentish Plover

#039 🐦 Little Ringed Plover

#041 🐦 Lesser sand-plover

#042 🐦 Oriental Plover

#043 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#045 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#046 🐦 Chestnut-winged Cuckoo

#047 🐦 Rock Dove

#048 🐦 Indian Roller

#049 🐦 European Roller

#050 🐦 Corn Crake

#051 🐦 Common Cuckoo

#052 🐦 Indian Cuckoo

#053 🐦 Cuculus nisicolor

#055 🐦 Large hawk cuckoo

#057 🐦 Asian House Martin

#058 🐦 Crow-billed Drongo

#059 🐦 Black Bittern

#064 🐦 Pied Heron

#069 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#070 🐦 Eurasian Hobby

#071 🐦 Mugimaki Flycatcher

#072 🐦 Narcissus Flycatcher

#077 🐦 Common Moorhen

#081 🐦 Siberian Thrush

#083 🐦 Malayan Night Heron

#085 🐦 White-headed Stilt

#087 🐦 Silver-backed Needletail

#089 🐦 Cinnamon Bittern

#090 🐦 Yellow Bittern

#091 🐦 Brown Shrike

#092 🐦 Tiger Shrike

#095 🐦 Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler

#096 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#097 🐦 Gadwall

#098 🐦 Blue rock thrush

#099 🐦 White Wagtail

#100 🐦 Grey Wagtail

#101 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#103 🐦 Gray-streaked Flycatcher

#105 🐦 Dark-sided Flycatcher

#106 🐦 Cotton Pygmy-goose

#109 🐦 Little Curlew

#112 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#113 🐦 Bridled Tern

#115 🐦 Black-naped Oriole

#116 🐦 Osprey

#118 🐦 Crested Honey Buzzard

#123 🐦 Arctic Warbler

#124 🐦 Blue-winged Pitta

#127 🐦 Black-backed Swamphen

#128 🐦 Baillon's Crake

#130 🐦 Garganey

#131 🐦 Common Tern

#134 🐦 Oriental Turtle Dove

#138 🐦 Square-tailed Drongo-cuckoo

#139 🐦 Lesser Crested Tern

#140 🐦 Greater Crested Tern

#144 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#147 🐦 Grey-headed Lapwing

#148 🐦 Terek Sandpiper

#151 🦎 Blue-tailed Shining-skink

Marine

Seen offshore.

#129 🐦 Wedge-tailed shearwater

#150 🦎 Green Turtle