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Connecticut wildlife

430 species in the Connecticut dex: 129 Common, 153 Uncommon, 130 Rare, 18 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.

#020 🦌 Woodland jumping mouse

#034 🦌 New England Cottontail

#042 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#053 🐦 Little Auk

#094 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#112 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#138 🐦 European Goldfinch

#140 🐦 Bicknell's Thrush

#216 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#283 🐦 Budgerigar · introduced

#302 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#325 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#385 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#435 🐦 African Collared Dove

#458 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#462 🐦 American Barn Owl

#484 🐸 Blue-spotted Salamander

#510 🐸 Mudpuppy

Rare

130

#004 🦌 Star-nosed Mole

#009 🦌 Southern Flying Squirrel

#010 🦌 Grey seal

#011 🦌 Red Bat

#017 🦌 Woodland vole

#018 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#019 🦌 Ermine

#023 🦌 Fisher

#025 🦌 North American Deermouse

#029 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#030 🦌 Eastern Mole

#040 🦌 Meadow jumping mouse

#045 🐦 Western Grebe

#046 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#049 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#051 🐦 Razorbill

#052 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#055 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#057 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#059 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#067 🐦 Greylag Goose

#068 🐦 Pink-footed Goose

#071 🐦 Ross's Goose

#075 🐦 Eastern Whip-poor-will

#076 🐦 Golden Eagle

#083 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#088 🐦 Tufted Duck

#092 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#095 🐦 Ruffed Grouse

#099 🐦 Cackling Goose

#100 🐦 Barnacle Goose

#103 🐦 Cattle Egret

#106 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#109 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#114 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#121 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#122 🐦 Red Knot

#125 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#127 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#130 🐦 Ruff

#133 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#143 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#153 🐦 Black Tern

#154 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#157 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#161 🐦 Sedge Wren

#167 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#170 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#176 🐦 Yellow Rail

#180 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#181 🐦 Tundra Swan

#184 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#192 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#193 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#197 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#204 🐦 White Ibis

#207 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#215 🐦 Common Moorhen

#218 🐦 Pacific Loon

#220 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#221 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#222 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#225 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#231 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#232 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#234 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#235 🐦 Little Gull

#236 🐦 Caspian Tern

#238 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#242 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#246 🐦 Northern Shrike

#249 🐦 Short-billed Gull

#250 🐦 California Gull

#251 🐦 Mew Gull

#255 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#259 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#264 🐦 Franklin's gull

#266 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#267 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#268 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#270 🐦 Red Crossbill

#271 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#293 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#301 🐦 Whimbrel

#312 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#322 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#323 🐦 Painted Bunting

#326 🐦 American White Pelican

#327 🐦 Brown Pelican

#328 🐦 Cave Swallow

#334 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#335 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#343 🐦 Western Tanager

#345 🐦 Summer Tanager

#346 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#348 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#354 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#355 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#361 🐦 Sora

#363 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#370 🐦 King Rail

#372 🐦 American Avocet

#377 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#378 🐦 Black Skimmer

#384 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#393 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#412 🐦 King Eider

#421 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#427 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#438 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#446 🐦 Royal Tern

#461 🐦 Western Kingbird

#464 🐦 Thick-billed Murre

#466 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#468 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#473 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#475 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#478 🐦 White-winged Dove

#486 🐸 Marbled Salamander

#490 🦎 Common Wormsnake

#493 🦎 Spotted Turtle

#495 🦎 Timber rattlesnake

#496 🐸 Northern Dusky Salamander

#500 🦎 Wood turtle

#501 🐸 Four-toed Salamander

#502 🦎 Eastern Hognose Snake

#509 🦎 Diamondback Terrapin

#516 🦎 Common Musk Turtle

#518 🦎 Redbelly Snake

#520 🦎 Eastern Ribbonsnake

Uncommon

153

#001 🦌 Northern Short-tailed Shrew

#006 🦌 Big Brown Bat

#007 🦌 North American porcupine

#008 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#012 🦌 North American River Otter

#015 🦌 Striped Skunk

#016 🦌 Meadow vole

#022 🦌 Muskrat

#024 🦌 White-footed Mouse

#026 🦌 Harbor Seal

#028 🦌 Cougar

#032 🦌 Wild Boar · introduced

#036 🦌 Red Squirrel

#037 🦌 Gray Fox

#038 🦌 American Black Bear

#041 🐦 Common Redpoll

#043 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#044 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#056 🐦 Saltmarsh Sparrow

#058 🐦 Seaside Sparrow

#060 🐦 Northern Pintail

#062 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#066 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#069 🐦 Snow Goose

#072 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#082 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#085 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#086 🐦 Redhead

#089 🐦 Greater scaup

#090 🐦 Canvasback

#096 🐦 American Bittern

#101 🐦 Snowy Owl

#102 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#111 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#113 🐦 Green Heron

#116 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#119 🐦 Sanderling

#120 🐦 Dunlin

#124 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#126 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#128 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#129 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#131 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#135 🐦 Canada Warbler

#136 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#144 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#150 🐦 Piping Plover

#151 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#155 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#156 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#160 🐦 Marsh Wren

#162 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#163 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#164 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#185 🐦 Bobolink

#189 🐦 Little blue heron

#195 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#198 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#199 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#200 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher

#202 🐦 Horned Lark

#205 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#208 🐦 Merlin

#209 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#210 🐦 American Kestrel

#212 🐦 American Coot

#214 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#219 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#226 🐦 American Oystercatcher

#230 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#241 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#253 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#254 🐦 Iceland Gull

#260 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#261 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#263 🐦 Laughing Gull

#265 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#272 🐦 American Wigeon

#273 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#276 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#278 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker

#279 🐦 Black Scoter

#280 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#281 🐦 Surf Scoter

#285 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#292 🐦 Northern Gannet

#297 🐦 Monk Parakeet · introduced

#303 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#304 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#313 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#315 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#316 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#320 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#329 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#332 🐦 Great Cormorant

#336 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#347 🐦 Snow Bunting

#349 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#350 🐦 American Golden Plover

#352 🐦 Grey Plover

#353 🐦 Horned Grebe

#356 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#359 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#362 🐦 Purple Martin

#367 🐦 Boat-tailed Grackle

#369 🐦 Clapper Rail

#371 🐦 Virginia Rail

#376 🐦 Sand Martin

#381 🐦 American Woodcock

#387 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#388 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#389 🐦 Cerulean Warbler

#390 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#392 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#394 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#395 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#403 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#404 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#409 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#411 🐦 Common Eider

#413 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#415 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#417 🐦 Pine Siskin

#419 🐦 Dickcissel

#429 🐦 Roseate Tern

#430 🐦 Forster's Tern

#431 🐦 Common Tern

#433 🐦 Least Tern

#436 🐦 Barred owl

#437 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#449 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#450 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#452 🐦 Willet

#453 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#455 🐦 Winter Wren

#469 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#471 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#474 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#481 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#483 🦎 Copperhead

#485 🐸 Spotted Salamander

#488 🐸 Fowler's Toad

#489 🦎 Brown Anole · introduced

#494 🦎 Eastern Racer

#497 🦎 Ringneck Snake

#498 🐸 Gray Treefrog

#499 🐸 Northern Two-lined Salamander

#503 🦎 Eastern Milksnake

#507 🐸 Northern Leopard Frog

#511 🦎 Northern Water Snake

#513 🦎 Eastern Rat Snake

#517 🦎 Brown Snake

#519 🦎 Common Box Turtle

Common

129

#002 🦌 Coyote

#003 🦌 American beaver

#005 🦌 Virginia opossum

#013 🦌 Bobcat

#014 🦌 Woodchuck

#021 🦌 White-tailed deer

#027 🦌 Raccoon

#031 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#033 🦌 Eastern Cottontail

#035 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#039 🦌 Red Fox

#048 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#050 🐦 Wood Duck

#063 🐦 Mallard

#064 🐦 American Black Duck

#078 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#079 🐦 Great Egret

#081 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#087 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#091 🐦 Tufted Titmouse

#093 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#097 🐦 Brent Goose

#098 🐦 Canada goose

#104 🐦 Bufflehead

#105 🐦 Common goldeneye

#108 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#110 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#137 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#139 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#141 🐦 Veery

#142 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#147 🐦 Brown Creeper

#148 🐦 Chimney Swift

#152 🐦 Killdeer

#159 🐦 Hen Harrier

#165 🐦 Northern Flicker

#168 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#171 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#172 🐦 Black Vulture

#173 🐦 American Crow

#174 🐦 Common Raven

#175 🐦 Fish Crow

#178 🐦 Blue Jay

#182 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#186 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#187 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#188 🐦 Gray Catbird

#191 🐦 Snowy egret

#217 🐦 Common Loon

#224 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#227 🐦 House Finch

#228 🐦 Purple Finch

#229 🐦 Bald Eagle

#233 🐦 Barn Swallow

#237 🐦 Wood Thrush

#240 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#245 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#252 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#256 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#258 🐦 American Herring Gull

#262 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#269 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#274 🐦 Gadwall

#275 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#277 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#282 🐦 Wild Turkey

#284 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#286 🐦 Song Sparrow

#287 🐦 Goosander

#288 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#289 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#290 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#291 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#296 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#314 🐦 Osprey

#317 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#319 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#324 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#331 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#337 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#341 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#344 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#357 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#358 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#368 🐦 Common Grackle

#373 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#374 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#379 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#382 🐦 Ovenbird

#386 🐦 Northern Parula

#391 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#398 🐦 Palm Warbler

#399 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#400 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#401 🐦 Pine Warbler

#402 🐦 American Redstart

#406 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#408 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#410 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#416 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#418 🐦 American Goldfinch

#422 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#423 🐦 Field Sparrow

#424 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#425 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#439 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#441 🐦 Tree Swallow

#448 🐦 Carolina Wren

#451 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#454 🐦 House Wren

#456 🐦 American Robin

#460 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#467 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#470 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#472 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#479 🐦 Mourning Dove

#480 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#487 🐸 American Toad

#491 🦎 Common snapping turtle

#492 🦎 Painted Turtle

#504 🐸 American Bullfrog

#505 🐸 Green Frog

#506 🐸 Pickerel Frog

#508 🐸 Wood Frog

#512 🐸 Eastern Newt

#514 🐸 Redback Salamander

#515 🐸 Spring Peeper

#521 🦎 Common Garter Snake

#522 🦎 Pond Slider

Vagrants

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

#047 🐦 Rosy-faced Lovebird

#054 🐦 Egyptian Goose · introduced

#061 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#065 🐦 Anhinga

#070 🐦 Swan Goose

#073 🐦 Sprague's Pipit

#074 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#077 🐦 Black-chinned Hummingbird

#080 🐦 Grey Heron

#084 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#107 🐦 Zone-tailed Hawk

#115 🐦 Lark Bunting

#117 🐦 Chestnut-collared longspur

#118 🐦 Smith's Longspur

#123 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#132 🐦 Red-necked stint

#145 🐦 Henslow's Sparrow

#146 🐦 Black Guillemot

#149 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#158 🐦 Golden Pheasant

#166 🐦 Green Violetear

#169 🐦 Common Ground-Dove

#177 🐦 Yellow-fronted Canary

#179 🐦 Black swan

#183 🐦 Broad-billed Hummingbird

#190 🐦 Little Egret

#194 🐦 White-tailed Kite

#196 🐦 Western Flycatcher

#201 🐦 Grey Flycatcher

#203 🐦 Orange-cheeked waxbill

#206 🐦 Northern Red Bishop

#211 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird

#213 🐦 Northern Fulmar

#223 🐦 MacGillivray's Warbler

#239 🐦 Bullock's Oriole

#243 🐦 Least Bittern

#244 🐦 Varied Thrush

#247 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike

#248 🐦 Herring Gull

#257 🐦 Slaty-backed Gull

#294 🐦 Wood Stork

#295 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#298 🐦 Nanday parakeet · introduced

#299 🐦 Long-billed Curlew

#300 🐦 Hudsonian Whimbrel

#305 🐦 Cockatiel

#307 🐦 Band-rumped storm-petrel

#308 🐦 Leach's Storm Petrel

#309 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#310 🐦 Bridled Tern

#311 🐦 Sooty Tern

#318 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow · introduced

#321 🐦 Lazuli Bunting

#330 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#333 🐦 Red Phalarope

#338 🐦 Black-headed Grosbeak

#339 🐦 Pine Grosbeak

#340 🐦 Green-tailed Towhee

#342 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#351 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#360 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#365 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#366 🐦 Manx Shearwater

#375 🐦 Ross's Gull

#380 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#383 🐦 Calliope Hummingbird

#396 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#397 🐦 Hermit Warbler

#405 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#407 🐦 Mountain Bluebird

#414 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#420 🐦 Brewer's Sparrow

#426 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#428 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#432 🐦 Arctic Tern

#434 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#440 🐦 Brown Booby

#442 🐦 Violet-green Swallow

#443 🐦 Ruddy Shelduck

#444 🐦 Common Shelduck

#445 🐦 Zebra Finch

#447 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#457 🐦 Gray Kingbird

#459 🐦 Fork-tailed Flycatcher

#463 🐦 Common Murre

#465 🐦 Northern Lapwing

#476 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#477 🐦 Terek Sandpiper

#482 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

Marine

Seen offshore.

#134 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#306 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#364 🐦 Great Shearwater