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Delaware wildlife

400 species in the Delaware dex: 122 Common, 140 Uncommon, 120 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.

#029 🦌 Meadow jumping mouse

#031 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#040 🐦 Little Auk

#048 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#054 🐦 Greylag Goose

#095 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#173 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#188 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird

#193 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#195 🐦 Pacific Loon

#233 🐦 Franklin's gull

#322 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#348 🐦 Calliope Hummingbird

#351 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#362 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#393 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#440 🐦 White-winged Dove

#478 🦎 Rough Greensnake

Rare

120

#003 🦌 North American Least Shrew

#005 🦌 Big Brown Bat

#007 🦌 Southern Flying Squirrel

#009 🦌 Red Bat

#013 🦌 Woodland vole

#014 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#020 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#021 🦌 Eastern Mole

#030 🐦 Common Redpoll

#035 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#038 🐦 Razorbill

#043 🐦 Saltmarsh Sparrow

#046 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#053 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#055 🐦 Pink-footed Goose

#059 🐦 Ross's Goose

#061 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#062 🐦 Eastern Whip-poor-will

#063 🐦 Golden Eagle

#072 🐦 Redhead

#077 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#080 🐦 American Bittern

#083 🐦 Cackling Goose

#085 🐦 Snowy Owl

#089 🐦 Common goldeneye

#092 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#097 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#099 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#100 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#103 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#105 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#108 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#112 🐦 Ruff

#114 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#118 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#125 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#135 🐦 Black Tern

#136 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#139 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#142 🐦 Sedge Wren

#143 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#145 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#149 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#155 🐦 Yellow Rail

#159 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#163 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#169 🐦 Little Egret

#174 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#176 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#177 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#184 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#197 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#198 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#199 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#207 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#210 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#211 🐦 Little Gull

#217 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#224 🐦 Iceland Gull

#225 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#228 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#229 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#230 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#238 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#242 🐦 Red Crossbill

#245 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#252 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#257 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#267 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#271 🐦 Whimbrel

#280 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#289 🐦 Painted Bunting

#292 🐦 American White Pelican

#294 🐦 Cave Swallow

#295 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#299 🐦 Great Cormorant

#301 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#302 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#303 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#309 🐦 Western Tanager

#312 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#313 🐦 Snow Bunting

#314 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#317 🐦 American Golden Plover

#321 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#324 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#327 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#329 🐦 Sora

#337 🐦 King Rail

#346 🐦 American Woodcock

#349 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#354 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#355 🐦 Cerulean Warbler

#356 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#376 🐦 Common Eider

#385 🐦 Dickcissel

#386 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#389 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#392 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#394 🐦 Roseate Tern

#399 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#409 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#421 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#425 🐦 Western Kingbird

#426 🐦 American Barn Owl

#429 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#431 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#436 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#438 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#448 🐸 American Toad

#451 🦎 Common Wormsnake

#455 🦎 Spotted Turtle

#458 🦎 Ringneck Snake

#460 🐸 Green Treefrog

#467 🦎 Striped mud turtle

#472 🐸 Mid-Atlantic Coast Leopard Frog

#473 🐸 Pickerel Frog

#475 🐸 Wood Frog

#482 🐸 Spring Peeper

#489 🦎 Brown Snake

Uncommon

140

#001 🦌 Northern Short-tailed Shrew

#004 🦌 Virginia opossum

#006 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#008 🦌 Grey seal

#010 🦌 North American River Otter

#012 🦌 Striped Skunk

#017 🦌 White-footed Mouse

#024 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#027 🦌 Gray Fox

#032 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#033 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#042 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#045 🐦 Seaside Sparrow

#060 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#068 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#069 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#071 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#073 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#074 🐦 Greater scaup

#075 🐦 Canvasback

#081 🐦 Brent Goose

#086 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#087 🐦 Cattle Egret

#094 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#101 🐦 Sanderling

#104 🐦 Red Knot

#106 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#107 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#109 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#110 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#117 🐦 Canada Warbler

#123 🐦 Veery

#124 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#126 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#128 🐦 Brown Creeper

#131 🐦 Piping Plover

#137 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#138 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#144 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#147 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#153 🐦 Common Raven

#160 🐦 Tundra Swan

#164 🐦 Bobolink

#168 🐦 Little blue heron

#172 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#178 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#179 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher

#180 🐦 Horned Lark

#181 🐦 White Ibis

#182 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#185 🐦 Merlin

#186 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#187 🐦 American Kestrel

#189 🐦 American Coot

#191 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#192 🐦 Common Moorhen

#194 🐦 Common Loon

#196 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#201 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#202 🐦 American Oystercatcher

#204 🐦 Purple Finch

#206 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#214 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#215 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#216 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#223 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#235 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#237 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#241 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#244 🐦 American Wigeon

#246 🐦 Gadwall

#248 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#250 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker

#251 🐦 Black Scoter

#253 🐦 Surf Scoter

#254 🐦 Wild Turkey

#259 🐦 Goosander

#260 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#262 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#264 🐦 Northern Gannet

#273 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#274 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#281 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#283 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#284 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#286 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#287 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#293 🐦 Brown Pelican

#304 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#310 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#311 🐦 Summer Tanager

#320 🐦 Horned Grebe

#323 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#331 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#334 🐦 Boat-tailed Grackle

#338 🐦 Virginia Rail

#341 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#342 🐦 Sand Martin

#344 🐦 Black Skimmer

#352 🐦 Northern Parula

#353 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#358 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#359 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#360 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#361 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#363 🐦 Palm Warbler

#364 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#368 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#369 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#371 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#373 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#375 🐦 Brown-headed Nuthatch

#380 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#381 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#382 🐦 Pine Siskin

#390 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#396 🐦 Common Tern

#398 🐦 Least Tern

#400 🐦 Barred owl

#401 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#408 🐦 Royal Tern

#416 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#418 🐦 Winter Wren

#430 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#432 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#433 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#437 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#443 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#445 🐸 Northern Cricket Frog

#446 🐸 Marbled Salamander

#453 🦎 Common snapping turtle

#456 🦎 Eastern Racer

#468 🦎 Eastern Mud Turtle

#476 🦎 Diamondback Terrapin

#479 🦎 Eastern Rat Snake

#486 🦎 Fence Lizard

#488 🦎 Common Musk Turtle

#490 🦎 Common Box Turtle

#492 🦎 Common Garter Snake

#493 🦎 Pond Slider

Common

122

#002 🦌 American beaver

#011 🦌 Woodchuck

#015 🦌 White-tailed deer

#016 🦌 Muskrat

#018 🦌 Harbor Seal

#019 🦌 Raccoon

#022 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#023 🦌 Eastern Cottontail

#028 🦌 Red Fox

#036 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#037 🐦 Wood Duck

#047 🐦 Northern Pintail

#049 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#050 🐦 Mallard

#051 🐦 American Black Duck

#056 🐦 Snow Goose

#065 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#066 🐦 Great Egret

#067 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#076 🐦 Tufted Titmouse

#078 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#082 🐦 Canada goose

#088 🐦 Bufflehead

#091 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#093 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#096 🐦 Green Heron

#102 🐦 Dunlin

#111 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#113 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#119 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#121 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#129 🐦 Chimney Swift

#132 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#133 🐦 Killdeer

#140 🐦 Hen Harrier

#141 🐦 Marsh Wren

#146 🐦 Northern Flicker

#148 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#150 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#151 🐦 Black Vulture

#152 🐦 American Crow

#154 🐦 Fish Crow

#157 🐦 Blue Jay

#162 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#165 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#166 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#167 🐦 Gray Catbird

#171 🐦 Snowy egret

#200 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#203 🐦 House Finch

#205 🐦 Bald Eagle

#208 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#209 🐦 Barn Swallow

#212 🐦 Caspian Tern

#213 🐦 Wood Thrush

#218 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#222 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#226 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#227 🐦 American Herring Gull

#231 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#232 🐦 Laughing Gull

#234 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#247 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#249 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#256 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#258 🐦 Song Sparrow

#261 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#263 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#268 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#282 🐦 Osprey

#285 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#288 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#290 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#297 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#307 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#315 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#319 🐦 Grey Plover

#325 🐦 Carolina Chickadee

#326 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#330 🐦 Purple Martin

#335 🐦 Common Grackle

#336 🐦 Clapper Rail

#339 🐦 American Avocet

#340 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#345 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#347 🐦 Ovenbird

#357 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#365 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#366 🐦 Pine Warbler

#367 🐦 American Redstart

#372 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#374 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#378 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#384 🐦 American Goldfinch

#387 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#388 🐦 Field Sparrow

#395 🐦 Forster's Tern

#402 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#404 🐦 Tree Swallow

#410 🐦 Carolina Wren

#411 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#412 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#414 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#415 🐦 Willet

#417 🐦 House Wren

#419 🐦 American Robin

#424 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#434 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#435 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#441 🐦 Mourning Dove

#442 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#449 🐸 Fowler's Toad

#454 🦎 Painted Turtle

#459 🐸 Cope's Gray Treefrog

#470 🐸 American Bullfrog

#471 🐸 Green Frog

#474 🐸 Southern Leopard Frog

#477 🦎 Northern Water Snake

#480 🦎 Five-lined Skink

#481 🐸 Redback Salamander

#484 🦎 American Red-bellied Turtle

#485 🐸 Eastern Spadefoot

Vagrants

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

#034 🐦 Western Grebe

#039 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#041 🐦 Egyptian Goose · introduced

#044 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#052 🐦 Anhinga

#057 🐦 Swan Goose

#058 🐦 Bar-headed Goose

#064 🐦 Black-chinned Hummingbird

#070 🐦 Burrowing Owl

#079 🐦 Ruffed Grouse

#084 🐦 Barnacle Goose

#090 🐦 Zone-tailed Hawk

#098 🐦 Lark Bunting

#115 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#116 🐦 Southern Caracara

#120 🐦 European Goldfinch

#122 🐦 Bicknell's Thrush

#127 🐦 Black Guillemot

#130 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#134 🐦 White-winged Tern

#156 🐦 Yellow-fronted Canary

#158 🐦 Black swan

#161 🐦 Whooper Swan

#170 🐦 Reddish Egret

#175 🐦 Western Flycatcher

#183 🐦 Brewer's Blackbird

#190 🐦 Northern Fulmar

#219 🐦 Northern Shrike

#220 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike

#221 🐦 California Gull

#236 🐦 Swainson's Warbler

#239 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#240 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#243 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#255 🐦 Budgerigar · introduced

#265 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#266 🐦 Wood Stork

#269 🐦 Monk Parakeet · introduced

#270 🐦 Hudsonian Whimbrel

#272 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#276 🐦 Leach's Storm Petrel

#277 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#278 🐦 Bridled Tern

#279 🐦 Sooty Tern

#291 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#296 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#298 🐦 Neotropic cormorant

#300 🐦 Red Phalarope

#305 🐦 Black-headed Grosbeak

#306 🐦 American Flamingo

#308 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#316 🐦 European Golden Plover

#318 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#328 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#332 🐦 Great Shearwater

#333 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#343 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#350 🐦 Allen's Hummingbird

#370 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#377 🐦 King Eider

#379 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#383 🐦 Lesser Goldfinch

#391 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#397 🐦 Arctic Tern

#403 🐦 Brown Booby

#405 🐦 Ruddy Shelduck

#406 🐦 Common Shelduck

#407 🐦 Elegant Tern

#413 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#420 🐦 Gray Kingbird

#422 🐦 Tropical Kingbird

#423 🐦 Fork-tailed Flycatcher

#427 🐦 Thick-billed Murre

#428 🐦 Northern Lapwing

#439 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#444 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#447 🐸 Tiger Salamander

#450 🦎 Brown Anole · introduced

#452 🦎 Green Turtle

#457 🐸 Northern Dusky Salamander

#461 🐸 Barking Treefrog

#462 🐸 Gray Treefrog

#463 🐸 Northern Two-lined Salamander

#464 🐸 Long-tailed Salamander

#465 🐸 Four-toed Salamander

#466 🦎 Eastern Hognose Snake

#469 🦎 Eastern Milksnake

#483 🐸 New Jersey Chorus Frog

#487 🦎 Ground Skink

#491 🦎 Eastern Ribbonsnake

#494 🦎 Smooth Earth Snake

Marine

Seen offshore.

#025 🦌 Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin

#026 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#275 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel