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French Polynesia wildlife

84 species in the French Polynesia dex: 29 Common, 30 Uncommon, 23 Rare, 2 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.

#033 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#115 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

Rare

#001 🦌 Wolf

#012 🦌 Black Rat · introduced

#016 🦌 Wild Boar · introduced

#024 🐦 Rimatara reed-warbler

#037 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#038 🐦 Sanderling

#039 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#064 🐦 Polynesian Ground Dove

#065 🐦 Marquesan Ground Dove

#071 🐦 Black-headed weaver · introduced

#074 🐦 Iphis monarch

#075 🐦 Marquesan monarch

#077 🐦 Fatu Hiva monarch

#078 🐦 Spotless Crake

#104 🐦 Rapa fruit-dove

#127 🐦 Tuamotu Kingfisher

#129 🐦 Marquesan kingfisher

#134 🐦 Kuhl's lorikeet

#136 🐦 Ultramarine Lorikeet

#139 🦎 Mottled Snake-eyed Skink

#145 🦎 Brahminy blindsnake · introduced

#148 🦎 Gold dust day gecko · introduced

#149 🦎 Pond Slider · introduced

Uncommon

#002 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#020 🐦 Tuamotu Reed Warbler

#021 🐦 Tahiti Reed Warbler

#022 🐦 Marquesan Reed Warbler

#023 🐦 Northern Marquesan Reed Warbler

#025 🐦 Tahiti swiftlet

#026 🐦 Marquesan swiftlet

#028 🐦 Pacific Black Duck

#029 🐦 Blue Noddy

#036 🐦 Striated Heron

#044 🐦 Polynesian Imperial-Pigeon

#045 🐦 Marquesan imperial-pigeon

#054 🐦 Pacific Swallow

#059 🐦 Bristle-thighed curlew

#069 🐦 Red-tailed Tropicbird

#076 🐦 Tahiti monarch

#083 🐦 Tuamotu Sandpiper

#100 🐦 Makatea fruit-dove

#101 🐦 Raiatea Fruit Dove

#102 🐦 Atoll fruit-dove

#103 🐦 White-capped fruit-dove

#113 🐦 Crimson-backed Tanager · introduced

#119 🐦 Masked Booby

#130 🐦 Chattering kingfisher

#133 🐦 Long-tailed Koel

#135 🐦 Blue lorikeet

#143 🦎 Pacific Dtella

#144 🦎 Common House Gecko

#146 🦎 Mourning Gecko

#147 🦎 Moth Skink

Common

#009 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#019 🐦 Common myna · introduced

#030 🐦 Black Noddy

#031 🐦 Brown Noddy

#041 🐦 Swamp Harrier

#042 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#046 🐦 Pacific Reef Heron

#047 🐦 Common Waxbill · introduced

#048 🐦 Lesser frigatebird

#049 🐦 Great Frigatebird

#051 🐦 Red Junglefowl · introduced

#052 🐦 Zebra Dove · introduced

#053 🐦 White tern

#055 🐦 Chestnut-breasted Munia · introduced

#057 🐦 Red-browed Finch · introduced

#062 🐦 Sooty Tern

#063 🐦 Spectacled Tern

#068 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#072 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#105 🐦 Grey-green Fruit Dove

#112 🐦 Red-vented bulbul · introduced

#120 🐦 Brown Booby

#121 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#126 🐦 Greater Crested Tern

#131 🐦 Society Kingfisher

#132 🐦 Wandering Tattler

#137 🐦 Silvereye

#140 🦎 Copper-Tailed Skink

#141 🦎 Azure-tailed Skink

Vagrants

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

#008 🦌 Blainville's Beaked Whale · introduced

#015 🦌 Rough-toothed dolphin

#018 🦌 Cuvier's Beaked Whale

#027 🐦 Mallard

#032 🐦 Greylag Goose

#034 🐦 Great Horned Owl · introduced

#040 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#043 🐦 Wandering albatross

#056 🐦 Budgerigar

#060 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#061 🐦 Bridled Tern

#066 🐦 House sparrow

#067 🐦 White-faced Storm-petrel

#070 🐦 Light-mantled Albatross

#073 🐦 Grey Plover

#079 🐦 White-chinned Petrel

#080 🐦 Grey Petrel

#082 🐦 Kiritimati Sandpiper

#086 🐦 Henderson Petrel

#093 🐦 White-headed Petrel

#095 🐦 Great-winged Petrel

#096 🐦 Soft-plumaged Petrel

#114 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#116 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#117 🐦 Common Tern

#118 🐦 Black-naped Tern

#122 🐦 Buller's Albatross

#123 🐦 Chatham Albatross

#124 🐦 Black-browed Albatross

#125 🐦 Salvin's Albatross

#128 🐦 Niau Kingfisher

Marine

Seen offshore.

#003 🦌 Short-finned Pilot whale

#004 🦌 Risso's Dolphin

#005 🦌 Pygmy Sperm Whale

#006 🦌 Dwarf sperm whale

#007 🦌 Humpback Whale

#010 🦌 Melon-headed Whale

#011 🦌 Sperm Whale

#013 🦌 Pantropical Spotted Dolphin

#014 🦌 Spinner Dolphin

#017 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#035 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#050 🐦 White-bellied Storm-petrel

#058 🐦 Polynesian Storm-petrel

#081 🐦 Black Petrel

#084 🐦 Tahiti petrel

#085 🐦 Phoenix Petrel

#087 🐦 Collared Petrel

#088 🐦 White-Necked Petrel

#089 🐦 Cook's Petrel

#090 🐦 Juan Fernandez Petrel · introduced

#091 🐦 Herald Petrel

#092 🐦 Mottled Petrel

#094 🐦 Gould's Petrel

#097 🐦 Kermadec petrel

#098 🐦 Black-winged Petrel

#099 🐦 Murphy's petrel

#106 🐦 Tropical Shearwater

#107 🐦 Buller's Shearwater

#108 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#109 🐦 Rapa Shearwater

#110 🐦 Christmas Shearwater

#111 🐦 Wedge-tailed shearwater

#138 🦎 Green Turtle

#142 🦎 Hawksbill turtle