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Ireland wildlife

338 species in the Ireland dex: 107 Common, 112 Uncommon, 103 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.

#059 🦌 Raccoon · introduced

#076 🐦 Northern Goshawk

#089 🐦 Wood Duck

#095 🐦 Egyptian Goose

#106 🐦 Swan Goose

#125 🐦 Squacco Heron

#152 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#173 🐦 Temminck's Stint

#177 🐦 European Nightjar

#187 🐦 Little Ringed Plover

#238 🐦 Little Bunting

#294 🐦 Caspian Gull

#325 🐦 Black Scoter

#362 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#373 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#395 🐦 Pallas's Leaf Warbler

Rare

103

#007 🦌 Domestic goat · introduced

#027 🦌 Red-necked wallaby

#033 🦌 Field vole

#036 🦌 Hazel dormouse

#039 🦌 European Polecat

#043 🦌 Daubenton's Bat

#045 🦌 Natterer's Bat

#046 🦌 Lesser noctule

#057 🦌 Soprano Pipistrelle

#068 🦌 Wild Boar

#085 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#093 🐦 Red-legged Partridge · introduced

#094 🐦 Little Auk

#098 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#101 🐦 American Black Duck

#105 🐦 Snow Goose · introduced

#109 🐦 Tundra Bean Goose

#115 🐦 Richard's Pipit

#117 🐦 Water Pipit

#118 🐦 Tree pipit

#121 🐦 Golden Eagle

#124 🐦 Purple Heron

#129 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#137 🐦 Eurasian Bittern

#140 🐦 Cackling Goose

#142 🐦 Snowy Owl

#144 🐦 Bufflehead

#154 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#158 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#162 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#170 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#172 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#179 🐦 Common Rosefinch

#185 🐦 Cetti's Warbler

#186 🐦 Kentish Plover

#190 🐦 Eurasian dotterel

#191 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#194 🐦 White-winged Tern

#198 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#205 🐦 Pallid Harrier

#206 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#209 🐦 Hawfinch

#220 🐦 Common Quail

#227 🐦 Black swan · introduced

#228 🐦 Tundra Swan

#247 🐦 Eurasian Hobby

#249 🐦 Red-footed Falcon

#251 🐦 European Pied Flycatcher

#252 🐦 Red-breasted Flycatcher

#266 🐦 Pacific Loon

#268 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#271 🐦 Common Crane

#274 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#276 🐦 Melodious Warbler

#283 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#288 🐦 Eurasian Wryneck

#290 🐦 Red-backed Shrike

#292 🐦 Woodchat Shrike

#304 🐦 American Herring Gull

#305 🐦 Laughing Gull

#308 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#313 🐦 Savi's Warbler

#315 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#320 🐦 American Wigeon

#326 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#327 🐦 Velvet Scoter

#329 🐦 Surf Scoter

#332 🐦 Smew

#336 🐦 Black Kite

#343 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#347 🐦 Red-crested Pochard

#352 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#372 🐦 Rosy Starling

#374 🐦 Great White Pelican

#375 🐦 Grey Partridge

#379 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant · introduced

#382 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#383 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#387 🐦 Common Redstart

#389 🐦 Arctic Warbler

#396 🐦 Radde's Warbler

#397 🐦 Wood Warbler

#406 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#410 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#411 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#426 🐦 Pied Avocet

#427 🐦 Firecrest

#445 🐦 King Eider

#447 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#456 🐦 Forster's Tern

#460 🐦 Least Tern · introduced

#462 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#466 🐦 Garden Warbler

#469 🐦 Barred Warbler

#472 🐦 Ruddy Shelduck

#477 🐦 Elegant Tern

#483 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#494 🐦 Ring Ouzel

#497 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

#501 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#508 🦎 Common snapping turtle · introduced

#513 🦎 River Cooter

#515 🦎 Pond Slider

Uncommon

112

#002 🦌 Wood Mouse

#009 🦌 Red deer

#010 🦌 Sika Deer · introduced

#011 🦌 Greater White-toothed Shrew

#012 🦌 Fallow Deer · introduced

#035 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#040 🦌 American mink

#042 🦌 Bank Vole

#066 🦌 Eurasian Pygmy Shrew

#075 🐦 Common Redpoll

#082 🐦 Sedge Warbler

#083 🐦 Eurasian Reed Warbler

#084 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#088 🐦 Mandarin Duck · introduced

#092 🐦 Common Kingfisher

#096 🐦 Northern Pintail

#102 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#103 🐦 Greylag Goose

#104 🐦 Pink-footed Goose

#122 🐦 Great Egret

#127 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#128 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#130 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#131 🐦 Common Pochard

#133 🐦 Greater scaup

#136 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#139 🐦 Canada goose · introduced

#141 🐦 Barnacle Goose

#143 🐦 Cattle Egret

#145 🐦 Common goldeneye

#156 🐦 Sanderling

#159 🐦 Red Knot

#161 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#164 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#166 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#167 🐦 Little Stint

#169 🐦 Ruff

#184 🐦 Eurasian Treecreeper

#195 🐦 Black Tern

#202 🐦 White-throated Dipper

#203 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#204 🐦 Hen Harrier

#208 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#212 🐦 Stock Dove

#217 🐦 Carrion Crow

#221 🐦 Corn Crake

#222 🐦 Common Cuckoo

#232 🐦 Great Spotted Woodpecker

#235 🐦 Yellowhammer

#244 🐦 Merlin

#245 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#253 🐦 Atlantic Puffin

#255 🐦 Brambling

#264 🐦 Black-throated Diver

#267 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#273 🐦 White-tailed Eagle

#280 🐦 Little Gull

#289 🐦 Willow Ptarmigan

#296 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#299 🐦 Iceland Gull

#300 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#302 🐦 Yellow-legged Gull

#312 🐦 Twite

#314 🐦 Common Grasshopper Warbler

#316 🐦 Red Crossbill

#319 🐦 Jack snipe

#323 🐦 Gadwall

#328 🐦 Common Scoter

#333 🐦 Goosander

#334 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#337 🐦 Red Kite

#345 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#366 🐦 Osprey

#367 🐦 Bearded Reedling

#371 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow

#381 🐦 Red Phalarope

#386 🐦 Black Redstart

#394 🐦 Yellow-browed Warbler

#401 🐦 Eurasian Spoonbill

#402 🐦 Snow Bunting

#403 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#404 🐦 European Golden Plover

#405 🐦 American Golden Plover

#407 🐦 Grey Plover

#408 🐦 Horned Grebe

#416 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet · introduced

#425 🐦 Water Rail

#434 🐦 Whinchat

#437 🐦 Eurasian Woodcock

#444 🐦 Common Eider

#446 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#448 🐦 Garganey

#450 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#452 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#453 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#454 🐦 Great Skua

#455 🐦 Roseate Tern

#457 🐦 Common Tern

#458 🐦 Arctic Tern

#459 🐦 Little Tern

#467 🐦 Common Whitethroat

#468 🐦 Lesser Whitethroat

#480 🐦 Spotted Redshank

#481 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#482 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#485 🐦 Green sandpiper

#493 🐦 Fieldfare

#496 🐦 Barn Owl

#502 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#505 🦎 Slow Worm

#510 🐸 Natterjack

#511 🐸 Alpine Newt

Common

107

#016 🦌 West European Hedgehog

#020 🦌 Grey seal

#025 🦌 Mountain Hare

#026 🦌 European otter

#028 🦌 European Pine Marten

#030 🦌 European Badger

#037 🦌 Ermine

#051 🦌 European Rabbit · introduced

#052 🦌 Harbor Seal

#060 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#064 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel · introduced

#065 🦌 Eurasian Red Squirrel

#073 🦌 Red Fox

#077 🐦 Eurasian Sparrowhawk

#086 🐦 Long-tailed Tit

#090 🐦 Eurasian Skylark

#091 🐦 Razorbill

#099 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#100 🐦 Mallard

#113 🐦 Eurasian Rock Pipit

#114 🐦 Meadow pipit

#119 🐦 Common Swift

#123 🐦 Grey Heron

#126 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#132 🐦 Tufted Duck

#138 🐦 Brent Goose

#149 🐦 Common Buzzard

#157 🐦 Dunlin

#178 🐦 European Goldfinch

#183 🐦 Black Guillemot

#188 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#196 🐦 European greenfinch

#199 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#210 🐦 Western Jackdaw

#211 🐦 Rock Dove

#213 🐦 Common Wood Pigeon

#215 🐦 Common Raven

#216 🐦 Hooded crow

#218 🐦 Rook

#226 🐦 Eurasian Blue Tit

#229 🐦 Whooper Swan

#230 🐦 Mute Swan

#231 🐦 Common house martin

#234 🐦 Little Egret

#240 🐦 Reed Bunting

#242 🐦 European Robin

#248 🐦 Common Kestrel

#254 🐦 Common Chaffinch

#257 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#259 🐦 Common snipe

#260 🐦 Common Moorhen

#262 🐦 Eurasian Jay

#265 🐦 Common Loon

#272 🐦 Eurasian Oystercatcher

#277 🐦 Barn Swallow

#282 🐦 Mediterranean Gull

#293 🐦 Herring Gull

#295 🐦 Mew Gull

#297 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#301 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#309 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#310 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#311 🐦 Common Linnet

#322 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#339 🐦 Northern Gannet

#340 🐦 White Wagtail

#341 🐦 Grey Wagtail

#348 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#349 🐦 Whimbrel

#360 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#369 🐦 Great Tit

#370 🐦 House sparrow

#376 🐦 Coal Tit

#378 🐦 European Shag

#380 🐦 Great Cormorant

#384 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#390 🐦 Common Chiffchaff

#399 🐦 Willow Warbler

#400 🐦 Eurasian Magpie

#409 🐦 Great Crested Grebe

#415 🐦 Dunnock

#423 🐦 Red-billed Chough

#424 🐦 Eurasian Bullfinch

#428 🐦 Goldcrest

#431 🐦 Sand Martin

#432 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#435 🐦 European Stonechat

#449 🐦 Eurasian Siskin

#461 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove

#463 🐦 Common Starling

#465 🐦 Eurasian Blackcap

#470 🐦 Little Grebe

#473 🐦 Common Shelduck

#478 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#484 🐦 Common Greenshank

#488 🐦 Common Redshank

#489 🐦 Winter Wren

#490 🐦 Redwing

#491 🐦 Common Blackbird

#492 🐦 Song Thrush

#495 🐦 Mistle Thrush

#498 🐦 Common Murre

#500 🐦 Northern Lapwing

#506 🐸 Common Toad

#512 🐸 Smooth Newt

#514 🐸 Common frog

#516 🦎 Viviparous Lizard

Vagrants

155

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

#001 🦌 Patagonian Akodont

#004 🦌 Sei Whale

#005 🦌 Blue whale

#008 🦌 Roe Deer

#013 🦌 Beluga

#015 🦌 Ass

#017 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#021 🦌 Northern Bottlenose Whale

#022 🦌 Atlantic White-sided Dolphin

#023 🦌 White-beaked Dolphin

#024 🦌 European Hare

#031 🦌 Sowerby's Beaked Whale

#032 🦌 Gervais' Beaked Whale

#034 🦌 Reeves' Muntjac · introduced

#038 🦌 Least Weasel

#041 🦌 Coypu · introduced

#044 🦌 Whiskered Bat

#047 🦌 Noctule

#048 🦌 Walrus

#049 🦌 Muskrat · introduced

#050 🦌 Killer Whale

#055 🦌 Nathusius's pipistrelle

#056 🦌 Common Pipistrelle

#058 🦌 Brown Long-eared Bat

#061 🦌 Black Rat · introduced

#062 🦌 Greater Horseshoe Bat

#063 🦌 Lesser Horseshoe Bat

#069 🦌 European Mole

#070 🦌 Siberian chipmunk · introduced

#072 🦌 Brown Bear

#074 🦌 Cuvier's Beaked Whale

#078 🐦 Paddyfield Warbler

#079 🐦 Great Reed Warbler

#080 🐦 Blyth's Reed Warbler

#081 🐦 Marsh Warbler

#087 🐦 Rosy-faced Lovebird

#097 🐦 White-cheeked Pintail

#107 🐦 Lesser White-fronted Goose

#108 🐦 Bar-headed Goose

#110 🐦 Tawny Pipit

#111 🐦 Red-throated Pipit

#112 🐦 Olive-backed Pipit

#116 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#120 🐦 Pallid Swift

#134 🐦 Ferruginous Duck

#135 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#146 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#147 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#148 🐦 Eurasian stone-curlew

#150 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#151 🐦 Green Heron

#153 🐦 Greater Short-toed Lark

#155 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#160 🐦 Broad-billed Sandpiper

#163 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#165 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#168 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#171 🐦 Red-necked stint

#174 🐦 Great Knot

#175 🐦 Ringed Teal

#180 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#181 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#182 🐦 Red-rumped Swallow

#189 🐦 Greater Sand Plover

#192 🐦 Killdeer

#193 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#197 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#200 🐦 Golden Pheasant

#201 🐦 White stork

#207 🐦 Great Spotted Cuckoo

#214 🐦 European Roller

#219 🐦 House crow · introduced

#223 🐦 Eastern Subalpine Warbler

#224 🐦 Western Subalpine Warbler

#225 🐦 Sardinian Warbler

#233 🐦 Little blue heron · introduced

#236 🐦 Ortolan Bunting

#237 🐦 Black-Headed Bunting

#239 🐦 Rustic Bunting

#241 🐦 Horned Lark

#243 🐦 Common Waxbill

#246 🐦 Gyrfalcon

#250 🐦 Taiga Flycatcher

#256 🐦 American Coot

#261 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#263 🐦 Yellow-billed Loon

#269 🐦 Black-winged Pratincole

#270 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#275 🐦 Icterine Warbler

#278 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#281 🐦 Caspian Tern

#284 🐦 Booted Warbler

#285 🐦 Western Olivaceous Warbler

#286 🐦 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler

#287 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#291 🐦 Lesser Grey Shrike

#298 🐦 Glaucous-winged gull

#303 🐦 Slaty-backed Gull

#306 🐦 Franklin's gull

#307 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#317 🐦 Common Nightingale

#318 🐦 Bluethroat

#321 🐦 Falcated Duck

#324 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#330 🐦 Stejneger's Scoter

#331 🐦 Budgerigar

#335 🐦 European Bee-eater

#338 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#342 🐦 Citrine Wagtail

#344 🐦 Eastern Yellow Wagtail

#346 🐦 Egyptian Vulture

#350 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#351 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron · introduced

#353 🐦 Cockatiel

#355 🐦 Band-rumped storm-petrel

#357 🐦 Desert Wheatear

#358 🐦 Black-eared Wheatear

#359 🐦 Isabelline Wheatear

#361 🐦 Pied Wheatear

#363 🐦 Eurasian Scops Owl

#364 🐦 Ruddy Duck · introduced

#365 🐦 Ivory Gull

#368 🐦 Harris's Hawk

#377 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#385 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#388 🐦 Western Bonelli's Warbler

#391 🐦 Dusky warbler

#392 🐦 Hume's Leaf Warbler

#393 🐦 Iberian Chiffchaff

#398 🐦 Greenish Warbler

#412 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#413 🐦 Willow Tit

#414 🐦 Baillon's Crake

#429 🐦 Eurasian Penduline Tit

#430 🐦 Ross's Gull

#433 🐦 Siberian Stonechat

#436 🐦 African stonechat

#438 🐦 European Serin

#439 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#440 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#441 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#442 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#443 🐦 Baikal Teal

#451 🐦 South Polar Skua

#464 🐦 Brown Booby

#471 🐦 Alpine Swift

#474 🐦 Red-flanked Bluetail

#475 🐦 Black-browed Albatross

#476 🐦 Cabot's Tern

#479 🐦 Sacred Ibis

#486 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#487 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#499 🐦 Thick-billed Murre

#503 🐦 Terek Sandpiper

#504 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

Marine

Seen offshore.

#003 🦌 Minke Whale

#006 🦌 Fin Whale

#014 🦌 Common Dolphin

#018 🦌 Long-finned pilot whale

#019 🦌 Risso's Dolphin

#029 🦌 Humpback Whale

#053 🦌 Harbor porpoise

#054 🦌 Sperm Whale

#067 🦌 Striped Dolphin

#071 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#176 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#258 🐦 Northern Fulmar

#279 🐦 European Storm-Petrel

#354 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#356 🐦 Leach's Storm Petrel

#417 🐦 Fea's Petrel

#418 🐦 Barolo shearwater

#419 🐦 Great Shearwater

#420 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#421 🐦 Balearic Shearwater

#422 🐦 Manx Shearwater

#507 🦎 Loggerhead

#509 🦎 Leatherback Sea Turtle