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District of Columbia wildlife

310 species in the District of Columbia dex: 95 Common, 108 Uncommon, 93 Rare, 14 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.

#011 🦌 Northern Myotis · location protected

#022 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#025 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#044 🐦 Golden Eagle

#072 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#074 🐦 Sanderling

#152 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#157 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#165 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#182 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#197 🐦 Budgerigar · introduced

#268 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#316 🐦 Willet

#351 🐸 Long-tailed Salamander

Rare

#005 🦌 Big Brown Bat

#007 🦌 Southern Flying Squirrel

#008 🦌 Red Bat

#010 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#014 🦌 White-footed Mouse

#017 🦌 Eastern Mole

#029 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#030 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#031 🐦 Northern Pintail

#037 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#038 🐦 Greylag Goose

#039 🐦 Snow Goose

#043 🐦 Eastern Whip-poor-will

#049 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#051 🐦 Redhead

#053 🐦 Greater scaup

#058 🐦 American Bittern

#059 🐦 Brent Goose

#061 🐦 Cackling Goose

#063 🐦 Snowy Owl

#064 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#065 🐦 Cattle Egret

#067 🐦 Common goldeneye

#070 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#075 🐦 Dunlin

#078 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#080 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#082 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#084 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#095 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#097 🐦 Black Tern

#098 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#102 🐦 Hen Harrier

#103 🐦 Marsh Wren

#104 🐦 Sedge Wren

#105 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#107 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#111 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#119 🐦 Tundra Swan

#121 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#126 🐦 Little blue heron

#127 🐦 Snowy egret

#128 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#130 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#131 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#132 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#135 🐦 Horned Lark

#147 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#148 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#149 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#162 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#171 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#172 🐦 Iceland Gull

#173 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#190 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#193 🐦 Black Scoter

#194 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#195 🐦 Surf Scoter

#210 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#214 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#226 🐦 Brown Pelican

#239 🐦 Summer Tanager

#242 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#243 🐦 American Golden Plover

#244 🐦 Grey Plover

#246 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#247 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#252 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#253 🐦 Sora

#258 🐦 Virginia Rail

#259 🐦 American Avocet

#262 🐦 Sand Martin

#265 🐦 American Woodcock

#272 🐦 Cerulean Warbler

#296 🐦 Dickcissel

#297 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#300 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#303 🐦 Forster's Tern

#304 🐦 Common Tern

#306 🐦 Least Tern

#314 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#326 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#333 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#342 🦎 Common Wormsnake

#346 🐸 Northern Dusky Salamander

#348 🐸 Cope's Gray Treefrog

#352 🦎 False Map Turtle

#353 🦎 Turkish Gecko · introduced

#360 🦎 Rough Greensnake

#363 🦎 Broadhead Skink

#366 🦎 River Cooter

#367 🦎 American Red-bellied Turtle

#370 🦎 Eastern Ribbonsnake

Uncommon

108

#001 🦌 Northern Short-tailed Shrew

#004 🦌 Virginia opossum

#006 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#009 🦌 Woodchuck

#013 🦌 Muskrat

#016 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#021 🦌 Red Fox

#023 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#024 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#033 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#035 🐦 American Black Duck

#041 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#050 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#052 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#054 🐦 Canvasback

#071 🐦 Green Heron

#081 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#083 🐦 Canada Warbler

#088 🐦 Veery

#090 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#091 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#093 🐦 Brown Creeper

#096 🐦 Killdeer

#099 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#100 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#106 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#115 🐦 Common Raven

#122 🐦 Bobolink

#133 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#134 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher

#137 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#139 🐦 Merlin

#141 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#142 🐦 American Kestrel

#143 🐦 American Coot

#144 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#146 🐦 Common Loon

#154 🐦 Purple Finch

#156 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#160 🐦 Caspian Tern

#164 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#174 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#176 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#177 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#178 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#180 🐦 Laughing Gull

#184 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#187 🐦 American Wigeon

#188 🐦 Gadwall

#192 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker

#196 🐦 Wild Turkey

#199 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#201 🐦 Goosander

#202 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#211 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#215 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#217 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#218 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#220 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#221 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#222 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#228 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#234 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#245 🐦 Horned Grebe

#248 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#254 🐦 Purple Martin

#255 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#261 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#271 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#273 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#275 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#276 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#277 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#280 🐦 Palm Warbler

#281 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#282 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#283 🐦 Pine Warbler

#285 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#286 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#287 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#289 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#291 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#292 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#294 🐦 Pine Siskin

#299 🐦 Field Sparrow

#307 🐦 Barred owl

#308 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#315 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#317 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#319 🐦 Winter Wren

#327 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#329 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#330 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#331 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#334 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#338 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#340 🐸 Fowler's Toad

#345 🦎 Eastern Racer

#347 🦎 Ringneck Snake

#349 🐸 Gray Treefrog

#350 🐸 Northern Two-lined Salamander

#356 🐸 Pickerel Frog

#357 🐸 Southern Leopard Frog

#359 🦎 Northern Water Snake

#361 🦎 Eastern Rat Snake

#365 🐸 Spring Peeper

#368 🦎 Brown Snake

#369 🦎 Common Box Turtle

Common

#002 🦌 Coyote

#003 🦌 American beaver

#012 🦌 White-tailed deer

#015 🦌 Raccoon

#018 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#019 🦌 Eastern Cottontail

#020 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#026 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#027 🐦 Wood Duck

#034 🐦 Mallard

#045 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#046 🐦 Great Egret

#047 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#055 🐦 Tufted Titmouse

#057 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#060 🐦 Canada goose

#066 🐦 Bufflehead

#068 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#069 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#085 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#086 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#089 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#094 🐦 Chimney Swift

#108 🐦 Northern Flicker

#110 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#112 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#113 🐦 Black Vulture

#114 🐦 American Crow

#116 🐦 Fish Crow

#117 🐦 Blue Jay

#123 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#124 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#125 🐦 Gray Catbird

#151 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#153 🐦 House Finch

#155 🐦 Bald Eagle

#159 🐦 Barn Swallow

#161 🐦 Wood Thrush

#163 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#167 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#170 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#175 🐦 American Herring Gull

#179 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#189 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#191 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#198 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#200 🐦 Song Sparrow

#203 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#204 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#205 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#207 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#216 🐦 Osprey

#219 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#224 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#229 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#236 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#238 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#250 🐦 Carolina Chickadee

#251 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#256 🐦 Common Grackle

#260 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#263 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#266 🐦 Ovenbird

#269 🐦 Northern Parula

#270 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#274 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#278 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#284 🐦 American Redstart

#288 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#290 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#293 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#295 🐦 American Goldfinch

#298 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#301 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#309 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#310 🐦 Tree Swallow

#312 🐦 Carolina Wren

#313 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#318 🐦 House Wren

#320 🐦 American Robin

#323 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#332 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#336 🐦 Mourning Dove

#337 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#339 🐸 American Toad

#341 🦎 Green Anole

#343 🦎 Common snapping turtle

#344 🦎 Painted Turtle

#354 🐸 American Bullfrog

#355 🐸 Green Frog

#358 🐸 Wood Frog

#362 🦎 Five-lined Skink

#364 🐸 Redback Salamander

#371 🦎 Common Garter Snake

#372 🦎 Pond Slider

Vagrants

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

#028 🐦 Egyptian Goose · introduced

#032 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#036 🐦 Anhinga

#040 🐦 Ross's Goose

#042 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#048 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#056 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#062 🐦 Barnacle Goose

#073 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#076 🐦 Red Knot

#077 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#079 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#087 🐦 Bicknell's Thrush

#092 🐦 Henslow's Sparrow

#101 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#109 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#118 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#120 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#129 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#136 🐦 White Ibis

#138 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#140 🐦 Prairie Falcon

#145 🐦 Common Moorhen

#150 🐦 MacGillivray's Warbler

#158 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#166 🐦 Least Bittern

#168 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike

#169 🐦 Herring Gull

#181 🐦 Franklin's gull

#183 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#185 🐦 Red Crossbill

#186 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#206 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#208 🐦 Monk Parakeet · introduced

#209 🐦 Whimbrel

#212 🐦 Cockatiel

#213 🐦 Sooty Tern

#223 🐦 Painted Bunting

#225 🐦 American White Pelican

#227 🐦 Cave Swallow

#230 🐦 Great Cormorant

#231 🐦 Red Phalarope

#232 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#233 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#235 🐦 Green-tailed Towhee

#237 🐦 Western Tanager

#240 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#241 🐦 Snow Bunting

#249 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#257 🐦 Clapper Rail

#264 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#267 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#279 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#302 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#305 🐦 Arctic Tern

#311 🐦 Royal Tern

#321 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#322 🐦 Fork-tailed Flycatcher

#324 🐦 Western Kingbird

#325 🐦 American Barn Owl

#328 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#335 🐦 White-winged Dove