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Cook Islands wildlife

46 species in the Cook Islands dex: 15 Common, 18 Uncommon, 13 Rare, 0 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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Rare

#005 🦌 Pacific Flying Fox

#008 🐦 Jungle Myna

#010 🐦 Cook Reed Warbler

#024 🐦 Rock Dove

#035 🐦 Sooty Tern

#038 🐦 Eastern Rosella

#058 🐦 Black-naped Tern

#059 🐦 Masked Booby

#064 🐦 Greater Crested Tern

#065 🐦 Mewing Kingfisher

#073 🦎 Mottled Snake-eyed Skink

#077 🦎 Pacific Dtella

#080 🦎 Moth Skink

Uncommon

#002 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#006 🦌 Wild Boar · introduced

#011 🐦 Atiu Swiftlet

#012 🐦 Pacific Black Duck

#014 🐦 Black Noddy

#016 🐦 Rarotonga Starling

#027 🐦 Lesser frigatebird

#028 🐦 Great Frigatebird

#034 🐦 Bristle-thighed curlew

#060 🐦 Brown Booby

#061 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#066 🐦 Chattering kingfisher

#069 🐦 Long-tailed Koel

#070 🐦 Kuhl's lorikeet

#071 🐦 Blue lorikeet

#075 🦎 Azure-tailed Skink

#076 🦎 Rarotonga Treeskink

#078 🦎 Common House Gecko

Common

#001 🦌 Domestic goat · introduced

#009 🐦 Common myna · introduced

#015 🐦 Brown Noddy

#025 🐦 Pacific Imperial-pigeon

#026 🐦 Pacific Reef Heron

#029 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#030 🐦 White tern

#036 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#037 🐦 Red-tailed Tropicbird

#039 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#040 🐦 Rarotonga Monarch

#051 🐦 Lilac-crowned Fruit Dove

#068 🐦 Wandering Tattler

#074 🦎 Copper-Tailed Skink

#079 🦎 Mourning Gecko

Vagrants

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

#007 🦌 Cuvier's Beaked Whale

#013 🐦 Blue Noddy

#017 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#018 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#019 🐦 Striated Heron

#020 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#021 🐦 Sanderling

#022 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#023 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#031 🐦 Chestnut-breasted Munia

#032 🐦 Polynesian Storm-petrel

#033 🐦 Whimbrel

#041 🐦 Black Petrel

#043 🐦 Collared Petrel

#044 🐦 White-Necked Petrel

#045 🐦 Cook's Petrel

#047 🐦 Mottled Petrel

#048 🐦 Kermadec petrel

#050 🐦 Murphy's petrel

#053 🐦 Buller's Shearwater

#055 🐦 Christmas Shearwater

#057 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#062 🐦 Australian Shelduck

#063 🐦 Black-browed Albatross

#067 🐦 Grey-tailed Tattler

Marine

Seen offshore.

#003 🦌 Humpback Whale

#004 🦌 Sperm Whale

#042 🐦 Tahiti petrel

#046 🐦 Herald Petrel

#049 🐦 Black-winged Petrel

#052 🐦 Tropical Shearwater

#054 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#056 🐦 Wedge-tailed shearwater

#072 🦎 Green Turtle