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218 species in the Jamaica dex: 64 Common, 79 Uncommon, 66 Rare, 9 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.

#022 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#046 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#071 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#117 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#118 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#120 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#174 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#184 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#270 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

Rare

#005 🦌 Domestic goat · introduced

#009 🦌 Small Asian Mongoose · introduced

#017 🐦 Yellow-naped Amazon

#020 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#026 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#027 🐦 Limpkin

#032 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#033 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#039 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#044 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#045 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#048 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#059 🐦 Black Tern

#065 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#079 🐦 Gray Catbird

#090 🐦 Yellow-crowned Bishop · introduced

#091 🐦 Northern Red Bishop

#093 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#098 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#101 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#111 🐦 Caspian Tern

#113 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#124 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#128 🐦 Chestnut Munia · introduced

#129 🐦 Tricolored Munia · introduced

#132 🐦 American Wigeon

#152 🐦 Masked Duck

#153 🐦 Whimbrel

#164 🐦 Spotted Rail

#167 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#169 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#170 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#172 🐦 Plain Pigeon

#181 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#182 🐦 American Flamingo

#185 🐦 Summer Tanager

#188 🐦 American Golden Plover

#193 🐦 Sora

#194 🐦 Yellow-breasted crake

#195 🐦 Caribbean Martin

#197 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#199 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet

#204 🐦 Clapper Rail

#205 🐦 American Avocet

#206 🐦 Sand Martin

#212 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#213 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#220 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#224 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#226 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#231 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#233 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#236 🐦 Forster's Tern

#237 🐦 Common Tern

#238 🐦 Least Tern

#239 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#243 🐦 Masked Booby

#244 🐦 Brown Booby

#245 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#248 🐦 Tree Swallow

#256 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#271 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#282 🦎 Bluefields Anole

#285 🦎 Woodslave

#291 🐸 Greenhouse Frog · introduced

#299 🦎 Jamaican slider

Uncommon

#002 🦌 Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat

#003 🦌 Domesticated cattle

#004 🦌 Wolf · introduced

#007 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#016 🐦 Black-billed Amazon

#030 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#031 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#040 🐦 Sanderling

#047 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#057 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#058 🐦 Killdeer

#060 🐦 Antillean Nighthawk

#066 🐦 Mangrove Cuckoo

#068 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#074 🐦 Black Swift

#075 🐦 West Indian Whistling Duck

#082 🐦 Reddish Egret

#084 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#085 🐦 Greater Antillean Elaenia

#087 🐦 White Ibis

#092 🐦 Merlin

#095 🐦 Green-Rumped Parrotlet

#097 🐦 American Coot

#104 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#105 🐦 Ruddy Quail-Dove

#106 🐦 Crested Quail-Dove

#108 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#110 🐦 Barn Swallow

#112 🐦 Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo

#116 🐦 Northern Jacana

#123 🐦 Laughing Gull

#125 🐦 Swainson's Warbler

#130 🐦 Scaly-breasted Munia · introduced

#133 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#140 🐦 Bahama Mockingbird

#143 🐦 Shiny Cowbird · introduced

#148 🐦 Stolid Flycatcher

#150 🐦 Jamaican Elaenia

#151 🐦 Jamaican Blackbird

#155 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#156 🐦 Northern Potoo

#157 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#161 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#163 🐦 Osprey

#165 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#166 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#176 🐦 Cave Swallow

#177 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#187 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#190 🐦 Grey Plover

#191 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#192 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#198 🐦 Jamaican Owl

#202 🐦 Great-tailed Grackle

#208 🐦 Jamaican Lizard-Cuckoo

#214 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#216 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#218 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#219 🐦 Palm Warbler

#225 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#227 🐦 Saffron Finch

#228 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#230 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#241 🐦 White-collared Swift

#242 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#247 🐦 Least Grebe

#250 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#253 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#254 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#255 🐦 Willet

#258 🐦 Black-billed Streamertail

#265 🐦 American Barn Owl

#274 🐦 Blue Mountain Vireo

#278 🐦 Mourning Dove

#279 🦎 Jamaican Giant Anole

#283 🦎 Brown Anole

#287 🦎 American Crocodile

#289 🐸 Piping Frog · introduced

#293 🦎 House Gecko · introduced

Common

#015 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#019 🐦 Yellow-billed Amazon

#025 🐦 Jamaican Mango

#028 🐦 Jamaican Parakeet

#029 🐦 Great Egret

#036 🐦 Cattle Egret

#037 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#038 🐦 Green Heron

#051 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#067 🐦 Bananaquit

#069 🐦 Common Ground-Dove

#070 🐦 Jamaican Pewee

#072 🐦 Jamaican Crow

#073 🐦 Smooth-billed Ani

#080 🐦 Little blue heron

#083 🐦 Snowy egret

#088 🐦 Orangequit

#089 🐦 Jamaican Euphonia

#094 🐦 American Kestrel

#096 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird

#099 🐦 Common Moorhen

#109 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#114 🐦 Jamaican Oriole

#122 🐦 Caribbean Dove

#131 🐦 Yellow-shouldered Grassquit

#134 🐦 Jamaican Woodpecker

#135 🐦 Black-faced Grassquit

#136 🐦 Vervain Hummingbird

#138 🐦 Greater Antillean Bullfinch

#141 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#142 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#144 🐦 Rufous-Throated Solitaire

#145 🐦 Sad Flycatcher

#149 🐦 Rufous-tailed Flycatcher

#162 🐦 Jamaican Becard

#171 🐦 Ring-tailed Pigeon

#173 🐦 White-crowned Pigeon

#175 🐦 Brown Pelican

#203 🐦 Greater Antillean Grackle

#209 🐦 Ovenbird

#210 🐦 Northern Parula

#211 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#215 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#221 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#222 🐦 Arrowhead Warbler

#223 🐦 American Redstart

#232 🐦 Jamaican Spindalis

#246 🐦 Antillean Palm-swift

#249 🐦 Royal Tern

#251 🐦 Yellow-faced Grassquit

#252 🐦 Jamaican Tody

#257 🐦 Red-billed Streamertail

#260 🐦 White-chinned Thrush

#261 🐦 White-eyed Thrush

#262 🐦 Loggerhead Kingbird

#263 🐦 Gray Kingbird

#269 🐦 Black-whiskered Vireo

#272 🐦 Jamaican Vireo

#276 🐦 White-winged Dove

#277 🐦 Zenaida Dove

#280 🦎 Graham's Anole

#281 🦎 Stripefoot Anole

#292 🦎 Yellow-headed Gecko

#296 🐸 Cane Toad · introduced

Vagrants

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

#001 🦌 Jamaican Fig-eating Bat

#006 🦌 Buffy Flower Bat

#010 🦌 Antillean Ghost-faced Bat

#012 🦌 Jamaican Flower Bat

#018 🐦 Red-lored Amazon

#021 🐦 Northern Pintail

#023 🐦 Mallard

#024 🐦 Brown Noddy

#034 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#035 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#041 🐦 Dunlin

#042 🐦 Red Knot

#043 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#049 🐦 Canada Warbler

#050 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#052 🐦 Bicknell's Thrush

#053 🐦 Veery

#054 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#055 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#056 🐦 Piping Plover

#061 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#062 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#063 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#064 🐦 Hen Harrier

#076 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#077 🐦 Fulvous Whistling Duck

#078 🐦 Bobolink

#081 🐦 Little Egret

#086 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#100 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#102 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#103 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#107 🐦 American Oystercatcher

#115 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#119 🐦 American Herring Gull

#121 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#126 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#127 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#137 🐦 Budgerigar

#139 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#146 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#147 🐦 La Sagra's Flycatcher

#154 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#158 🐦 Bridled Tern

#159 🐦 Sooty Tern

#160 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#168 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#178 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#179 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#180 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#183 🐦 Dusky Parrot

#186 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#189 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#196 🐦 Purple Martin

#200 🐦 Black-capped Petrel

#201 🐦 Audubon's Shearwater

#207 🐦 Black Skimmer

#217 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#229 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#234 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#235 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#240 🐦 African Collared Dove · introduced

#259 🐦 Eastern Red-legged Thrush

#264 🐦 Barn Owl

#266 🐦 Southern Lapwing

#267 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#268 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#273 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#275 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#284 🦎 Short-tail Anole

#288 🐸 Whistling frog

#290 🐸 John Crow Yellow-bellied Frog

#294 🐸 Jamaican Snoring Frog

#295 🐸 Jamaican Laughing Frog

#297 🦎 Ocellated Gecko

#298 🦎 Eastern Jamaican Sharpnosed Sphaero

Marine

Seen offshore.

#008 🦌 Short-finned Pilot whale

#011 🦌 Killer Whale

#013 🦌 Sperm Whale

#014 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#286 🦎 Green Turtle