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Cyprus wildlife

342 species in the Cyprus dex: 105 Common, 119 Uncommon, 102 Rare, 16 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.

#010 🦌 Mediterranean Monk Seal

#035 🐦 Rosy-faced Lovebird

#079 🐦 Trumpeter Finch

#103 🐦 Red-rumped Swallow

#175 🐦 Red-breasted Flycatcher

#188 🐦 Black-winged Pratincole

#198 🐦 Olive-tree Warbler

#206 🐦 Little Bittern

#213 🐦 Red-tailed Shrike

#243 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#250 🐦 Northern Gannet

#345 🐦 Red-fronted Serin

#361 🐦 Subalpine Warbler

#388 🐦 Redwing

#392 🐦 Ring Ouzel

#421 🦎 Western Caspian turtle

Rare

102

#003 🦌 Domestic goat · introduced

#007 🦌 Human

#009 🦌 Schreibers's Long-fingered Bat

#011 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#018 🦌 Mediterranean horseshoe bat

#021 🦌 Egyptian Rousette

#024 🦌 Cuvier's Beaked Whale

#042 🐦 Bar-tailed Lark

#046 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#047 🐦 Greylag Goose

#049 🐦 Demoiselle Crane

#055 🐦 Richard's Pipit

#058 🐦 Little Swift

#063 🐦 Lesser Spotted Eagle

#068 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#069 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#070 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#073 🐦 Tufted Duck

#076 🐦 Eurasian Bittern

#085 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#087 🐦 Lesser Short-toed Lark

#088 🐦 Sanderling

#091 🐦 Red Knot

#092 🐦 Broad-billed Sandpiper

#105 🐦 Pied Kingfisher

#108 🐦 Caspian Plover

#109 🐦 Little Ringed Plover

#112 🐦 Eurasian dotterel

#115 🐦 Black Tern

#120 🐦 White stork

#121 🐦 Black Stork

#122 🐦 Short-toed Eagle

#133 🐦 Stock Dove

#136 🐦 Common Raven

#141 🐦 Corn Crake

#145 🐦 Cream-Colored Courser

#155 🐦 Cinereous Bunting

#161 🐦 Reed Bunting

#166 🐦 Merlin

#176 🐦 Semicollared Flycatcher

#179 🐦 Brambling

#183 🐦 Great Snipe

#190 🐦 Common Crane

#192 🐦 Eurasian Oystercatcher

#193 🐦 White-throated Kingfisher

#195 🐦 Booted Eagle

#197 🐦 Icterine Warbler

#200 🐦 Little Gull

#201 🐦 Caspian Tern

#203 🐦 Pallas's Gull

#204 🐦 Mediterranean Gull

#209 🐦 Great Grey Shrike

#218 🐦 Mew Gull

#223 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#228 🐦 Savi's Warbler

#231 🐦 Thrush Nightingale

#234 🐦 Jack snipe

#236 🐦 Gadwall

#238 🐦 Bimaculated Lark

#239 🐦 Calandra Lark

#245 🐦 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

#248 🐦 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush

#259 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#266 🐦 Desert Wheatear

#271 🐦 Mourning Wheatear

#272 🐦 Hooded Wheatear

#278 🐦 Eurasian Scops Owl

#281 🐦 Osprey

#286 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow

#287 🐦 Rosy Starling

#290 🐦 Great White Pelican

#298 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#307 🐦 Yellow-browed Warbler

#323 🐦 Spotted Crake

#324 🐦 Baillon's Crake

#325 🐦 Dunnock

#327 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet · introduced

#332 🐦 Pied Avocet

#334 🐦 Goldcrest

#335 🐦 Eurasian Penduline Tit

#340 🐦 Siberian Stonechat

#344 🐦 Eurasian Woodcock

#351 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#352 🐦 Common Tern

#360 🐦 Garden Warbler

#367 🐦 Sardinian Warbler

#371 🐦 Barred Warbler

#375 🐦 Ruddy Shelduck

#380 🐦 Wallcreeper

#391 🐦 Fieldfare

#393 🐦 Mistle Thrush

#400 🐦 Terek Sandpiper

#402 🦎 Spiny-footed Lizard

#407 🦎 Ocellated Skink

#415 🦎 Cyprus Whip Snake

#422 🦎 Кочијев гекон

#426 🐸 Bedriaga's Frog

#431 🦎 Erhard's Wall Lizard

#432 🦎 Algerian Psammodromus

#434 🦎 Cat Snake

#435 🦎 Spur-thighed Tortoise

#437 🦎 Eurasian Blind Snake

Uncommon

119

#001 🦌 Domesticated cattle

#002 🦌 Wolf

#004 🦌 Ass

#014 🦌 Red Sheep · introduced

#015 🦌 Mouflon

#019 🦌 Greater Horseshoe Bat

#020 🦌 Lesser Horseshoe Bat

#026 🐦 Eurasian Sparrowhawk

#028 🐦 Great Reed Warbler

#029 🐦 Moustached Warbler

#031 🐦 Sedge Warbler

#043 🐦 Northern Pintail

#050 🐦 Tawny Pipit

#056 🐦 Water Pipit

#057 🐦 Tree pipit

#060 🐦 Pallid Swift

#062 🐦 Bonelli's Eagle

#064 🐦 Great Egret

#071 🐦 Little Owl

#072 🐦 Common Pochard

#075 🐦 Ferruginous Duck

#081 🐦 Eurasian stone-curlew

#082 🐦 Common Buzzard

#086 🐦 Greater Short-toed Lark

#089 🐦 Dunlin

#093 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#097 🐦 Temminck's Stint

#099 🐦 European Nightjar

#104 🐦 Short-toed Treecreeper

#110 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#111 🐦 Greater Sand Plover

#113 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#114 🐦 White-winged Tern

#117 🐦 Slender-billed Gull

#118 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#124 🐦 Hen Harrier

#125 🐦 Pallid Harrier

#126 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#129 🐦 Hawfinch

#140 🐦 Common Quail

#142 🐦 Common Cuckoo

#143 🐦 Eastern Subalpine Warbler

#152 🐦 Cretzschmar's Bunting

#158 🐦 Ortolan Bunting

#160 🐦 Black-Headed Bunting

#167 🐦 Eleonora's Falcon

#168 🐦 Lesser Kestrel

#169 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#170 🐦 Eurasian Hobby

#172 🐦 Red-footed Falcon

#173 🐦 Collared Flycatcher

#174 🐦 European Pied Flycatcher

#186 🐦 Eurasian Jay

#187 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#189 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#191 🐦 Griffon Vulture

#202 🐦 Audouin's Gull

#207 🐦 Eurasian Wryneck

#211 🐦 Lesser Grey Shrike

#214 🐦 Woodchat Shrike

#216 🐦 Armenian Gull

#217 🐦 Caspian Gull

#219 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#224 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#229 🐦 Red Crossbill

#230 🐦 Woodlark

#232 🐦 Common Nightingale

#233 🐦 Bluethroat

#235 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#247 🐦 Black Kite

#249 🐦 Blue rock thrush

#252 🐦 Grey Wagtail

#253 🐦 Citrine Wagtail

#258 🐦 Red-crested Pochard

#260 🐦 Whimbrel

#267 🐦 Finsch's Wheatear

#276 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#277 🐦 Cyprus Scops Owl

#292 🐦 Coal Tit

#293 🐦 European Honey Buzzard

#303 🐦 Common Redstart

#308 🐦 Eastern Bonelli's Warbler

#309 🐦 Wood Warbler

#313 🐦 Eurasian Spoonbill

#315 🐦 European Golden Plover

#317 🐦 Grey Plover

#319 🐦 Great Crested Grebe

#321 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#322 🐦 Little Crake

#329 🐦 Eurasian Crag Martin

#331 🐦 Water Rail

#338 🐦 Sand Martin

#350 🐦 Eurasian Siskin

#353 🐦 Little Tern

#358 🐦 Common Starling

#362 🐦 Common Whitethroat

#364 🐦 Eastern Orphean Warbler

#372 🐦 Rüppell's Warbler

#374 🐦 Alpine Swift

#376 🐦 Common Shelduck

#379 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#381 🐦 Spotted Redshank

#383 🐦 Common Greenshank

#385 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#386 🐦 Common Redshank

#387 🐦 Winter Wren

#394 🐦 Barn Owl

#399 🐦 Northern Lapwing

#401 🦎 Snake-eyed Skink

#404 🐸 Cyprus Green Toad

#405 🐸 Green Toad

#408 🦎 Common Chameleon · introduced

#412 🦎 Turkish Gecko

#413 🦎 Asian Racer

#414 🦎 Bridled Skink

#417 🐸 Savigny's Treefrog

#420 🦎 Eastern Montpellier Snake

#423 🦎 Mediterranean Thin-toed gecko

#436 🦎 Pond Slider · introduced

Common

105

#005 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#006 🦌 Long-eared Hedgehog · introduced

#008 🦌 European Hare

#013 🦌 European Rabbit · introduced

#016 🦌 Kuhl's Pipistrelle

#017 🦌 Black Rat · introduced

#023 🦌 Red Fox

#032 🐦 Eurasian Reed Warbler

#033 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#037 🐦 Eurasian Skylark

#039 🐦 Common Kingfisher

#040 🐦 Chukar

#044 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#045 🐦 Mallard

#051 🐦 Red-throated Pipit

#054 🐦 Meadow pipit

#059 🐦 Common Swift

#065 🐦 Grey Heron

#066 🐦 Purple Heron

#067 🐦 Squacco Heron

#078 🐦 Cattle Egret

#083 🐦 Long-Legged Buzzard

#095 🐦 Little Stint

#096 🐦 Ruff

#100 🐦 European Goldfinch

#106 🐦 Cetti's Warbler

#107 🐦 Kentish Plover

#116 🐦 European greenfinch

#123 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#127 🐦 Zitting Cisticola

#128 🐦 Great Spotted Cuckoo

#131 🐦 Western Jackdaw

#132 🐦 Rock Dove

#134 🐦 Common Wood Pigeon

#135 🐦 European Roller

#137 🐦 Hooded crow

#144 🐦 Sardinian Warbler

#149 🐦 Common house martin

#150 🐦 Little Egret

#153 🐦 Corn Bunting

#163 🐦 European Robin

#171 🐦 Common Kestrel

#177 🐦 Black Francolin

#178 🐦 Common Chaffinch

#180 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#181 🐦 Crested lark

#182 🐦 Common snipe

#184 🐦 Common Moorhen

#196 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#199 🐦 Barn Swallow

#205 🐦 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler

#208 🐦 Red-backed Shrike

#212 🐦 Masked Shrike

#221 🐦 Yellow-legged Gull

#225 🐦 Common Linnet

#244 🐦 European Bee-eater

#251 🐦 White Wagtail

#254 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#256 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#262 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#265 🐦 Cyprus Wheatear

#268 🐦 Black-eared Wheatear

#269 🐦 Isabelline Wheatear

#273 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#283 🐦 Great Tit

#284 🐦 House sparrow

#285 🐦 Spanish Sparrow

#296 🐦 European Shag

#297 🐦 Great Cormorant

#301 🐦 Greater Flamingo

#302 🐦 Black Redstart

#304 🐦 Common Chiffchaff

#311 🐦 Willow Warbler

#312 🐦 Eurasian Magpie

#314 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#341 🐦 Whinchat

#342 🐦 European Stonechat

#346 🐦 European Serin

#347 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#348 🐦 Garganey

#349 🐦 Laughing Dove

#354 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove

#357 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#359 🐦 Eurasian Blackcap

#363 🐦 Spectacled Warbler

#365 🐦 Lesser Whitethroat

#368 🐦 Cyprus Warbler

#373 🐦 Little Grebe

#382 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#384 🐦 Green sandpiper

#389 🐦 Common Blackbird

#390 🐦 Song Thrush

#395 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

#398 🐦 Spur-winged Lapwing

#403 🦎 Schreiber's Fringe-fingered Lizard

#410 🦎 Large Whip Snake

#416 🐸 Common Tree Frog

#418 🦎 Sand Lizard

#419 🦎 Levantine Viper

#424 🦎 Grass Snake

#425 🦎 Snake-eyed Lizard

#428 🐸 Pool Frog

#429 🐸 Marsh Frog

#430 🦎 Troodos Wall Lizard

#433 🦎 Roughtail Rock Agama

Vagrants

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

#012 🦌 Hovel's Myotis

#025 🐦 Northern Goshawk

#027 🐦 Common myna · introduced

#030 🐦 Marsh Warbler

#034 🐦 Cinereous Vulture

#036 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#038 🐦 Oriental Skylark

#041 🐦 Egyptian Goose

#048 🐦 Swan Goose

#052 🐦 Blyth's Pipit

#053 🐦 Olive-backed Pipit

#061 🐦 Greater spotted eagle

#074 🐦 Greater scaup

#077 🐦 Red-breasted Goose

#080 🐦 Common goldeneye

#084 🐦 Striated Heron

#090 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#094 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#101 🐦 Common Rosefinch

#102 🐦 Pale Rockfinch

#119 🐦 Diederik Cuckoo · introduced

#130 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#138 🐦 Carrion Crow

#139 🐦 Rook

#146 🐦 Eurasian Blue Tit

#147 🐦 Black swan · introduced

#148 🐦 Mute Swan

#151 🐦 Black-winged Kite

#154 🐦 Rock Bunting

#156 🐦 Cirl Bunting

#157 🐦 Yellowhammer

#159 🐦 Pine Bunting

#162 🐦 Black-faced bunting

#164 🐦 Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin

#165 🐦 Amur Falcon

#185 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#194 🐦 White-tailed Eagle

#210 🐦 Isabelline Shrike

#215 🐦 Herring Gull

#220 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#222 🐦 Franklin's gull

#226 🐦 Twite

#227 🐦 River Warbler

#237 🐦 Marbled Duck

#240 🐦 Budgerigar

#241 🐦 Smew

#242 🐦 Goosander

#246 🐦 Pygmy Cormorant

#255 🐦 Eastern Yellow Wagtail

#257 🐦 Egyptian Vulture

#261 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl · introduced

#263 🐦 Cockatiel · introduced

#264 🐦 Namaqua Dove

#270 🐦 White-crowned Wheatear

#274 🐦 Pied Wheatear

#275 🐦 Kurdistan Wheatear

#279 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#280 🐦 White-Headed Duck

#282 🐦 Bearded Reedling

#288 🐦 Indian Peafowl · introduced

#289 🐦 Dalmatian Pelican

#291 🐦 Grey Partridge

#294 🐦 Crested Honey Buzzard

#295 🐦 Rock Sparrow

#299 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#300 🐦 Lesser Flamingo

#305 🐦 Dusky warbler

#306 🐦 Hume's Leaf Warbler

#310 🐦 Mountain Chiffchaff

#316 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#318 🐦 Horned Grebe

#320 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#326 🐦 Alexandrine parakeet

#328 🐦 Black-bellied Sandgrouse

#333 🐦 Firecrest

#336 🐦 Crimson-winged Finch

#337 🐦 Desert Finch

#339 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#343 🐦 African stonechat

#355 🐦 Oriental Turtle Dove

#356 🐦 African Collared Dove

#366 🐦 African Desert Warbler

#369 🐦 Menetries's Warbler

#370 🐦 Asian Desert Warbler

#377 🐦 Red-flanked Bluetail

#378 🐦 Little Bustard

#396 🐦 Sociable Lapwing

#397 🐦 White-tailed Lapwing

#411 🦎 Schneider's Skink

#427 🐸 Cyprus Water Frog

Marine

Seen offshore.

#022 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#098 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#330 🐦 Yelkouan Shearwater

#406 🦎 Loggerhead

#409 🦎 Green Turtle