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450 species in the Kentucky dex: 137 Common, 157 Uncommon, 135 Rare, 21 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.

#006 🦌 Sika Deer · introduced

#041 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#060 🐦 Anhinga

#065 🐦 Swan Goose

#106 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#114 🐦 Red Knot

#121 🐦 Ruff

#164 🐦 Black swan

#190 🐦 Prairie Falcon

#193 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird

#260 🐦 Budgerigar · introduced

#274 🐦 Whimbrel

#304 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#316 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#323 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#341 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#428 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#450 🦎 Smooth softshell turtle

#465 🐸 Barking Treefrog

#509 🐸 Midland Mud Salamander

#515 🐸 Lesser Siren

Rare

135

#003 🦌 Wolf

#007 🦌 Fallow Deer · introduced

#012 🦌 Southern Flying Squirrel

#013 🦌 Silver-haired Bat

#019 🦌 Meadow vole

#020 🦌 Woodland vole

#021 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#022 🦌 Little Brown Myotis

#026 🦌 Hairy-tailed Mole

#028 🦌 White-footed Mouse

#029 🦌 North American Deermouse

#031 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#040 🐦 Common Redpoll

#045 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#050 🐦 Egyptian Goose · introduced

#052 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#053 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#062 🐦 Greylag Goose

#067 🐦 Ross's Goose

#069 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#071 🐦 Golden Eagle

#072 🐦 Limpkin

#077 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#088 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#090 🐦 Ruffed Grouse

#091 🐦 American Bittern

#094 🐦 Cackling Goose

#095 🐦 Snowy Owl

#097 🐦 Cattle Egret

#102 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#110 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#111 🐦 Sanderling

#113 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#115 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#117 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#124 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#138 🐦 Piping Plover

#141 🐦 Black Tern

#142 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#146 🐦 Marsh Wren

#147 🐦 Sedge Wren

#148 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#150 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#156 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#160 🐦 Common Raven

#162 🐦 Yellow Rail

#165 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#166 🐦 Tundra Swan

#168 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#177 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#178 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#179 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#184 🐦 White Ibis

#186 🐦 Brewer's Blackbird

#196 🐦 Common Moorhen

#199 🐦 Pacific Loon

#200 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#202 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#210 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#211 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#224 🐦 Varied Thrush

#226 🐦 Northern Shrike

#229 🐦 California Gull

#232 🐦 Iceland Gull

#233 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#234 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#240 🐦 Laughing Gull

#241 🐦 Franklin's gull

#242 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#245 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#248 🐦 Red Crossbill

#256 🐦 Black Scoter

#257 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#258 🐦 Surf Scoter

#264 🐦 Goosander

#270 🐦 Wood Stork

#276 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#281 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#291 🐦 Painted Bunting

#295 🐦 Brown Pelican

#298 🐦 Bachman's Sparrow

#300 🐦 Neotropic cormorant

#302 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#303 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#310 🐦 Western Tanager

#313 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#315 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#318 🐦 Grey Plover

#320 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#321 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#326 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#327 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#336 🐦 Virginia Rail

#337 🐦 American Avocet

#344 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#347 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#351 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#372 🐦 Brown-headed Nuthatch

#375 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#382 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#391 🐦 Common Tern

#393 🐦 Least Tern

#397 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#408 🐦 Willet

#414 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#417 🐦 American Barn Owl

#429 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#430 🐦 White-winged Dove

#434 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#443 🐸 Mole Salamander

#445 🐸 Tiger Salamander

#448 🐸 Green Salamander

#451 🦎 Spiny softshell turtle

#457 🐸 Spotted Dusky Salamander

#458 🐸 Northern Dusky Salamander

#460 🐸 Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander

#461 🐸 Black Mountain Salamander

#468 🐸 Three-lined Salamander

#471 🐸 Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad

#472 🦎 Common map turtle

#473 🦎 Ouachita map turtle

#474 🐸 Spring Salamander

#475 🐸 Four-toed Salamander

#477 🦎 Eastern Hognose Snake

#478 🦎 Eastern Mud Turtle

#479 🦎 Prairie Kingsnake

#488 🐸 Mudpuppy

#490 🦎 Diamondback Water Snake

#494 🐸 Cuban Treefrog · introduced

#500 🐸 Northern Ravine Salamander

#502 🐸 Cumberland Plateau Salamander

#505 🐸 Mountain Chorus Frog

#508 🦎 River Cooter

#516 🦎 Common Musk Turtle

#522 🦎 Smooth Earth Snake

Uncommon

157

#001 🦌 Northern Short-tailed Shrew

#005 🦌 Red deer

#009 🦌 Big Brown Bat

#010 🦌 Horse · introduced

#011 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#014 🦌 Red Bat

#015 🦌 North American River Otter

#018 🦌 Striped Skunk

#025 🦌 Muskrat

#027 🦌 Tricolored Bat

#032 🦌 Eastern Mole

#037 🦌 Gray Fox

#038 🦌 American Black Bear

#042 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#043 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#051 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#054 🐦 Northern Pintail

#056 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#059 🐦 American Black Duck

#061 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#064 🐦 Snow Goose

#068 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#070 🐦 Eastern Whip-poor-will

#079 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#082 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#083 🐦 Redhead

#084 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#085 🐦 Greater scaup

#086 🐦 Canvasback

#096 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#098 🐦 Bufflehead

#099 🐦 Common goldeneye

#104 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#108 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#112 🐦 Dunlin

#116 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#118 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#120 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#122 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#126 🐦 Canada Warbler

#127 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#131 🐦 Veery

#132 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#133 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#135 🐦 Henslow's Sparrow

#139 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#143 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#144 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#145 🐦 Hen Harrier

#152 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#161 🐦 Fish Crow

#167 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#170 🐦 Bobolink

#174 🐦 Little blue heron

#175 🐦 Snowy egret

#180 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#181 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#183 🐦 Horned Lark

#185 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#189 🐦 Merlin

#191 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#194 🐦 American Coot

#195 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#198 🐦 Common Loon

#201 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#204 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#207 🐦 Purple Finch

#209 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#215 🐦 Caspian Tern

#223 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#227 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike

#231 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#235 🐦 American Herring Gull

#236 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#238 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#243 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#244 🐦 Swainson's Warbler

#247 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#250 🐦 American Wigeon

#253 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#262 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#265 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#277 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#282 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#283 🐦 Osprey

#284 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#285 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#288 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#289 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#294 🐦 American White Pelican

#297 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#317 🐦 American Golden Plover

#319 🐦 Horned Grebe

#328 🐦 Sora

#330 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#340 🐦 Sand Martin

#345 🐦 American Woodcock

#346 🐦 Ovenbird

#352 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#353 🐦 Cerulean Warbler

#354 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#356 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#358 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#361 🐦 Palm Warbler

#362 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#363 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#364 🐦 Pine Warbler

#366 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#367 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#370 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#374 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#378 🐦 Pine Siskin

#380 🐦 Dickcissel

#385 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#390 🐦 Forster's Tern

#394 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#395 🐦 Barred owl

#406 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#407 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#409 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#411 🐦 Winter Wren

#418 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#419 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#420 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#425 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#427 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#435 🐸 Blanchard's Cricket Frog

#436 🐸 Northern Cricket Frog

#438 🦎 Cottonmouth

#439 🐸 Streamside Salamander

#440 🐸 Jefferson Salamander

#442 🐸 Marbled Salamander

#444 🐸 Small-mouthed Salamander

#452 🦎 Common Wormsnake

#456 🦎 Timber rattlesnake

#459 🐸 Seal Salamander

#464 🐸 Green Treefrog

#466 🐸 Gray Treefrog

#469 🐸 Long-tailed Salamander

#470 🐸 Cave Salamander

#476 🦎 Turkish Gecko · introduced

#480 🦎 Black Kingsnake

#481 🦎 Eastern Milksnake

#485 🐸 Northern Leopard Frog

#489 🦎 Plainbelly Water Snake

#493 🦎 Rough Greensnake

#497 🦎 Broadhead Skink

#499 🐸 Northern Zigzag Salamander

#501 🐸 Northern Slimy Salamander

#503 🐸 Ravine Salamander

#504 🦎 Common Wall Lizard · introduced

#507 🐸 Upland Chorus Frog

#510 🐸 Red Salamander

#511 🦎 Queen Snake

#512 🐸 Eastern Spadefoot

#514 🦎 Ground Skink

#518 🦎 Redbelly Snake

Common

137

#002 🦌 Coyote

#004 🦌 American beaver

#008 🦌 Virginia opossum

#016 🦌 Bobcat

#017 🦌 Woodchuck

#024 🦌 White-tailed deer

#030 🦌 Raccoon

#033 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#034 🦌 Fox Squirrel

#035 🦌 Eastern Cottontail

#036 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#039 🦌 Red Fox

#046 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#048 🐦 Wood Duck

#058 🐦 Mallard

#074 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#075 🐦 Great Egret

#076 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#087 🐦 Tufted Titmouse

#089 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#093 🐦 Canada goose

#101 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#103 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#107 🐦 Green Heron

#128 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#130 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#134 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#136 🐦 Brown Creeper

#137 🐦 Chimney Swift

#140 🐦 Killdeer

#149 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#151 🐦 Northern Flicker

#153 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#157 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#158 🐦 Black Vulture

#159 🐦 American Crow

#163 🐦 Blue Jay

#171 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#172 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#173 🐦 Gray Catbird

#182 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher

#192 🐦 American Kestrel

#203 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#206 🐦 House Finch

#208 🐦 Bald Eagle

#212 🐦 Barn Swallow

#216 🐦 Wood Thrush

#217 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#220 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#222 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#225 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#230 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#237 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#239 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#251 🐦 Gadwall

#252 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#254 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#255 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker

#259 🐦 Wild Turkey

#261 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#263 🐦 Song Sparrow

#266 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#267 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#268 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#272 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#286 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#290 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#292 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#299 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#305 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#308 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#311 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#312 🐦 Summer Tanager

#322 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#324 🐦 Carolina Chickadee

#325 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#329 🐦 Purple Martin

#333 🐦 Common Grackle

#338 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#339 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#343 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#350 🐦 Northern Parula

#355 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#357 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#359 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#365 🐦 American Redstart

#368 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#369 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#371 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#376 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#377 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#379 🐦 American Goldfinch

#383 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#384 🐦 Field Sparrow

#386 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#396 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#398 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#400 🐦 Tree Swallow

#404 🐦 Carolina Wren

#405 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#410 🐦 House Wren

#412 🐦 American Robin

#415 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#421 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#422 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#423 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#424 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#431 🐦 Mourning Dove

#432 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#433 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#437 🦎 Copperhead

#441 🐸 Spotted Salamander

#446 🐸 American Toad

#447 🐸 Fowler's Toad

#449 🦎 Brown Anole · introduced

#453 🦎 Common snapping turtle

#454 🦎 Painted Turtle

#455 🦎 Eastern Racer

#462 🦎 Ringneck Snake

#463 🐸 Cope's Gray Treefrog

#467 🐸 Southern Two-lined Salamander

#482 🐸 American Bullfrog

#483 🐸 Green Frog

#484 🐸 Pickerel Frog

#486 🐸 Southern Leopard Frog

#487 🐸 Wood Frog

#491 🦎 Northern Water Snake

#492 🐸 Eastern Newt

#495 🦎 Eastern Rat Snake

#496 🦎 Five-lined Skink

#498 🐸 Redback Salamander

#506 🐸 Spring Peeper

#513 🦎 Fence Lizard

#517 🦎 Brown Snake

#519 🦎 Common Box Turtle

#520 🦎 Common Garter Snake

#521 🦎 Pond Slider

Vagrants

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

#023 🦌 Allegheny Woodrat

#044 🐦 Western Grebe

#047 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#049 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#055 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#057 🐦 Mottled Duck

#063 🐦 Pink-footed Goose

#066 🐦 Bar-headed Goose

#073 🐦 Black-chinned Hummingbird

#078 🐦 Sagebrush Sparrow

#080 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#081 🐦 Burrowing Owl

#092 🐦 Brent Goose

#100 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#105 🐦 Ferruginous hawk

#109 🐦 Lark Bunting

#119 🐦 Little Stint

#123 🐦 Red-necked stint

#125 🐦 Anna's Hummingbird

#129 🐦 European Goldfinch

#154 🐦 Inca Dove

#155 🐦 Common Ground-Dove

#169 🐦 Fulvous Whistling Duck

#176 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#187 🐦 Northern Red Bishop

#188 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#197 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#205 🐦 American Oystercatcher

#213 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#214 🐦 Little Gull

#218 🐦 Bullock's Oriole

#219 🐦 Hooded Oriole

#221 🐦 Scott's Oriole

#228 🐦 Short-billed Gull

#246 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#249 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#269 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#271 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#273 🐦 Hudsonian Whimbrel

#275 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#278 🐦 Cockatiel

#279 🐦 Band-rumped storm-petrel

#280 🐦 Sooty Tern

#287 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow · introduced

#293 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#296 🐦 Cave Swallow

#301 🐦 Red Phalarope

#306 🐦 Black-headed Grosbeak

#307 🐦 American Flamingo

#309 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#314 🐦 Snow Bunting

#331 🐦 Great Shearwater

#332 🐦 Audubon's Shearwater

#334 🐦 Clapper Rail

#335 🐦 King Rail

#342 🐦 Rock Wren

#348 🐦 Allen's Hummingbird

#349 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#360 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#373 🐦 King Eider

#381 🐦 Brewer's Sparrow

#387 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#388 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#389 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#392 🐦 Arctic Tern

#399 🐦 Brown Booby

#401 🐦 Zebra Finch

#402 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#403 🐦 Bewick's Wren

#413 🐦 Gray Kingbird

#416 🐦 Western Kingbird

#426 🐦 Plumbeous Vireo