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Maldives wildlife

63 species in the Maldives dex: 20 Common, 23 Uncommon, 18 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.

#009 🐦 Indian Swiftlet

#062 🐦 Watercock

Rare

#006 🐦 Javan Myna

#015 🐦 Little Swift

#016 🐦 Common Swift

#031 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#032 🐦 Little Stint

#036 🐦 Kentish Plover

#056 🐦 Amur Falcon

#077 🐦 Brown Shrike

#078 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#090 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#093 🐦 Cockatiel

#096 🐦 Bridled Tern

#102 🐦 Crested Honey Buzzard

#124 🐦 Little Tern

#128 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#143 🦎 Stump-toed Gecko

#147 🦎 Mourning Gecko

#149 🦎 White-spotted Supple Skink

Uncommon

#002 🦌 Indian Flying Fox

#003 🦌 Large Flying Fox

#005 🦌 Asian house shrew

#019 🐦 Great Egret

#024 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#029 🐦 Sanderling

#038 🐦 Greater Sand Plover

#051 🐦 Little Egret

#060 🐦 Lesser frigatebird

#061 🐦 Great Frigatebird

#069 🐦 White tern

#073 🐦 Barn Swallow

#092 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#097 🐦 Sooty Tern

#099 🐦 House sparrow

#110 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#111 🐦 Grey Plover

#113 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet · introduced

#121 🐦 Roseate Tern

#122 🐦 Common Tern

#125 🐦 Saunders's Tern

#145 🦎 Spotted house gecko

#148 🦎 Common Wolf Snake

Common

#007 🐦 Common myna · introduced

#008 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#011 🐦 White-breasted Waterhen

#013 🐦 Brown Noddy

#014 🐦 Lesser Noddy

#020 🐦 Grey Heron

#022 🐦 Indian Pond Heron

#028 🐦 Striated Heron

#043 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#045 🐦 House crow

#055 🐦 Asian Koel

#091 🐦 Whimbrel

#104 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#123 🐦 Black-naped Tern

#129 🐦 Lesser Crested Tern

#130 🐦 Greater Crested Tern

#133 🐦 Common Greenshank

#139 🦎 Eastern Garden Lizard

#141 🐸 Common Sunda Toad

#144 🦎 Common House Gecko

Vagrants

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

#010 🐦 Common Kingfisher

#012 🐦 Northern Pintail

#017 🐦 Blyth's Swift

#018 🐦 Sun Parakeet

#021 🐦 Purple Heron

#023 🐦 Javan Pond Heron

#025 🐦 Tufted Duck

#026 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#027 🐦 Jouanin's Petrel

#030 🐦 Dunlin

#033 🐦 Temminck's Stint

#034 🐦 Common Rosefinch

#035 🐦 Red-rumped Swallow

#037 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#039 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#040 🐦 White-winged Tern

#041 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#042 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#044 🐦 European Roller

#046 🐦 Common Quail

#047 🐦 Common Cuckoo

#048 🐦 Common house martin

#049 🐦 Forest Wagtail

#050 🐦 Eclectus parrot

#052 🐦 Western reef heron

#053 🐦 Intermediate egret

#054 🐦 Black-winged Kite

#057 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#058 🐦 Eurasian Hobby

#059 🐦 Common Kestrel

#063 🐦 Common snipe

#064 🐦 Pin-tailed Snipe

#065 🐦 Common Moorhen

#066 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#067 🐦 Zebra Dove

#068 🐦 Oriental Pratincole

#070 🐦 Brahminy Kite

#071 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#072 🐦 White-throated Needletail

#074 🐦 Caspian Tern

#075 🐦 Sooty Gull

#076 🐦 Yellow Bittern

#079 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#080 🐦 Java Sparrow

#081 🐦 Budgerigar · introduced

#082 🐦 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

#083 🐦 Blue-tailed Bee-eater

#084 🐦 Little Cormorant

#085 🐦 Black Kite

#086 🐦 Blue rock thrush

#087 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#088 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#089 🐦 Monk Parakeet

#094 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#095 🐦 Isabelline Wheatear

#098 🐦 Osprey

#100 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow

#101 🐦 Rosy Starling

#103 🐦 Red-billed Tropicbird

#105 🐦 Red-tailed Tropicbird

#106 🐦 Greater Flamingo

#107 🐦 Willow Warbler

#108 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#109 🐦 Village Weaver

#112 🐦 Coppersmith Barbet

#117 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#118 🐦 Garganey

#119 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#120 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#126 🐦 Masked Booby

#127 🐦 Brown Booby

#131 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#132 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#134 🐦 Green sandpiper

#135 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#136 🐦 Common Redshank

#137 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

#138 🐦 Terek Sandpiper

Marine

Seen offshore.

#001 🦌 Short-finned Pilot whale

#004 🦌 Spinner Dolphin

#114 🐦 Tropical Shearwater · introduced

#115 🐦 Flesh-footed shearwater

#116 🐦 Wedge-tailed shearwater

#140 🦎 Green Turtle

#142 🦎 Hawksbill turtle

#146 🦎 Olive Ridley