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Faroe Islands wildlife

152 species in the Faroe Islands dex: 47 Common, 52 Uncommon, 46 Rare, 7 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.

#023 🐦 Marsh Warbler

#033 🐦 American Black Duck

#054 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#121 🐦 Red-breasted Flycatcher

#170 🐦 Smew

#222 🐦 Eurasian Bullfinch

#258 🐦 Common Greenshank

Rare

#008 🦌 Northern Bottlenose Whale

#013 🦌 Sowerby's Beaked Whale

#016 🦌 Mouflon

#020 🐦 Eurasian Sparrowhawk

#025 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#027 🐦 Eurasian Skylark

#029 🐦 Little Auk

#049 🐦 Common Swift

#053 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#056 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#081 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#083 🐦 Ruff

#085 🐦 Common Rosefinch

#092 🐦 Hawfinch

#099 🐦 Carrion Crow

#100 🐦 Rook

#110 🐦 Little Egret

#114 🐦 Reed Bunting

#120 🐦 European Pied Flycatcher

#128 🐦 Common Moorhen

#140 🐦 Little Gull

#143 🐦 Red-backed Shrike

#153 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#159 🐦 Red Crossbill

#162 🐦 Jack snipe

#163 🐦 American Wigeon

#177 🐦 Grey Wagtail

#179 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#181 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#190 🐦 Osprey

#194 🐦 Rosy Starling

#200 🐦 Common Redstart

#206 🐦 Wood Warbler

#217 🐦 Dunnock

#228 🐦 Sand Martin

#231 🐦 Whinchat

#236 🐦 King Eider

#237 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#240 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#242 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#247 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#250 🐦 Garden Warbler

#251 🐦 Common Whitethroat

#253 🐦 Barred Warbler

#254 🐦 Little Grebe

#266 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

Uncommon

#004 🦌 Domestic Cat

#007 🦌 Human

#019 🐦 Common Redpoll

#028 🐦 Razorbill

#030 🐦 Northern Pintail

#031 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#034 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#036 🐦 Pink-footed Goose

#051 🐦 Grey Heron

#059 🐦 Greater scaup

#060 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#061 🐦 Brent Goose

#062 🐦 Canada goose

#064 🐦 Barnacle Goose

#067 🐦 Common goldeneye

#073 🐦 Sanderling

#076 🐦 Red Knot

#080 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#087 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#091 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#096 🐦 Common Wood Pigeon

#108 🐦 Common house martin

#116 🐦 Merlin

#123 🐦 Common Chaffinch

#124 🐦 Brambling

#125 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#137 🐦 Barn Swallow

#149 🐦 Iceland Gull

#150 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#154 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#165 🐦 Gadwall

#168 🐦 Common Scoter

#171 🐦 Goosander

#193 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow

#196 🐦 Great Cormorant

#198 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#202 🐦 Common Chiffchaff

#203 🐦 Yellow-browed Warbler

#208 🐦 Willow Warbler

#209 🐦 Snow Bunting

#212 🐦 Horned Grebe

#216 🐦 Steller's Eider

#223 🐦 Water Rail

#226 🐦 Goldcrest

#239 🐦 Eurasian Siskin

#249 🐦 Eurasian Blackcap

#252 🐦 Lesser Whitethroat

#255 🐦 Common Shelduck

#263 🐦 Song Thrush

#264 🐦 Fieldfare

#267 🐦 Common Murre

#269 🐦 Northern Lapwing

Common

#006 🦌 Grey seal

#011 🦌 Mountain Hare

#015 🦌 Red Sheep

#032 🐦 Mallard

#035 🐦 Greylag Goose

#045 🐦 Eurasian Rock Pipit

#046 🐦 Meadow pipit

#052 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#058 🐦 Tufted Duck

#074 🐦 Dunlin

#086 🐦 Black Guillemot

#089 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#094 🐦 Rock Dove

#097 🐦 Common Raven

#098 🐦 Hooded crow

#107 🐦 Whooper Swan

#115 🐦 European Robin

#122 🐦 Atlantic Puffin

#127 🐦 Common snipe

#131 🐦 Common Loon

#132 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#134 🐦 Eurasian Oystercatcher

#145 🐦 Herring Gull

#147 🐦 Mew Gull

#148 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#151 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#164 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#172 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#175 🐦 Northern Gannet

#176 🐦 White Wagtail

#182 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#183 🐦 Whimbrel

#187 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#192 🐦 House sparrow

#195 🐦 European Shag

#211 🐦 European Golden Plover

#229 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#235 🐦 Common Eider

#241 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#243 🐦 Great Skua

#244 🐦 Arctic Tern

#245 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove

#248 🐦 Common Starling

#259 🐦 Common Redshank

#260 🐦 Winter Wren

#261 🐦 Redwing

#262 🐦 Common Blackbird

Vagrants

102

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

#021 🐦 Paddyfield Warbler

#022 🐦 Blyth's Reed Warbler

#024 🐦 Eurasian Reed Warbler

#026 🐦 Wood Duck

#037 🐦 Snow Goose

#038 🐦 Swan Goose

#039 🐦 Bean Goose

#040 🐦 Bar-headed Goose

#041 🐦 Ross's Goose

#042 🐦 Tundra Bean Goose

#043 🐦 Red-throated Pipit

#044 🐦 Olive-backed Pipit

#047 🐦 Richard's Pipit

#048 🐦 Tree pipit

#050 🐦 Great Egret

#055 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#057 🐦 Common Pochard

#063 🐦 Cackling Goose

#065 🐦 Snowy Owl

#066 🐦 Bufflehead

#068 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#069 🐦 Eurasian stone-curlew

#070 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#071 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#072 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#075 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#077 🐦 Broad-billed Sandpiper

#078 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#079 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#082 🐦 Little Stint

#084 🐦 European Goldfinch

#088 🐦 Black Tern

#090 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#093 🐦 Western Jackdaw

#095 🐦 Stock Dove

#101 🐦 Common Quail

#102 🐦 Corn Crake

#103 🐦 Common Cuckoo

#104 🐦 Moltoni's Warbler

#105 🐦 Eurasian Blue Tit

#106 🐦 Black swan

#109 🐦 Great Spotted Woodpecker

#111 🐦 Yellowhammer

#112 🐦 Little Bunting

#113 🐦 Rustic Bunting

#117 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#118 🐦 Eurasian Hobby

#119 🐦 Common Kestrel

#129 🐦 Yellow-billed Loon

#130 🐦 Black-throated Diver

#133 🐦 Common Crane

#135 🐦 White-tailed Eagle

#136 🐦 Icterine Warbler

#138 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#141 🐦 Mediterranean Gull

#142 🐦 Eurasian Wryneck

#144 🐦 Isabelline Shrike

#146 🐦 Caspian Gull

#152 🐦 Franklin's gull

#155 🐦 Common Linnet

#156 🐦 Twite

#157 🐦 Lanceolated warbler

#158 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#160 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#161 🐦 Common Nightingale

#166 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#167 🐦 Velvet Scoter

#169 🐦 Surf Scoter

#173 🐦 European Bee-eater

#174 🐦 Red Kite

#178 🐦 Citrine Wagtail

#180 🐦 Eastern Yellow Wagtail

#184 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#185 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#188 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#189 🐦 Ivory Gull

#191 🐦 Great Tit

#197 🐦 Red Phalarope

#199 🐦 Black Redstart

#201 🐦 Arctic Warbler

#204 🐦 Eastern Bonelli's Warbler

#205 🐦 Pallas's Leaf Warbler

#207 🐦 Greenish Warbler

#210 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#213 🐦 Great Crested Grebe

#214 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#215 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#218 🐦 Fea's Petrel

#224 🐦 Pied Avocet

#225 🐦 Firecrest

#227 🐦 Ross's Gull

#230 🐦 Siberian Stonechat

#232 🐦 Eurasian Woodcock

#233 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#234 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#238 🐦 Garganey

#246 🐦 Oriental Turtle Dove

#256 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#257 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#265 🐦 Mistle Thrush

#268 🐦 Thick-billed Murre

#270 🐦 Sabine's Gull

Marine

Seen offshore.

#001 🦌 Minke Whale

#002 🦌 Sei Whale

#003 🦌 Fin Whale

#005 🦌 Long-finned pilot whale

#009 🦌 Atlantic White-sided Dolphin

#010 🦌 White-beaked Dolphin

#012 🦌 Humpback Whale

#014 🦌 Killer Whale

#017 🦌 Sperm Whale

#018 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#126 🐦 Northern Fulmar

#139 🐦 European Storm-Petrel

#186 🐦 Leach's Storm Petrel

#219 🐦 Great Shearwater

#220 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#221 🐦 Manx Shearwater