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211 species in the Malta dex: 64 Common, 74 Uncommon, 64 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.

#028 🐦 Olive-backed Pipit

#030 🐦 Richard's Pipit

#094 🐦 Hooded crow

#148 🐦 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler

#169 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#185 🐦 Eastern Yellow Wagtail

#266 🐦 Lesser Whitethroat

#273 🐦 Dartford Warbler

#290 🐦 Ring Ouzel

Rare

#001 🦌 North African Hedgehog

#004 🦌 Least Weasel

#012 🐦 Moustached Warbler

#022 🐦 Northern Pintail

#031 🐦 Water Pipit

#035 🐦 Lesser Spotted Eagle

#040 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#045 🐦 Eurasian Bittern

#048 🐦 Eurasian stone-curlew

#049 🐦 Common Buzzard

#060 🐦 Temminck's Stint

#063 🐦 European Goldfinch

#069 🐦 Little Ringed Plover

#071 🐦 Eurasian dotterel

#074 🐦 Black Tern

#079 🐦 White stork

#080 🐦 Black Stork

#081 🐦 Short-toed Eagle

#083 🐦 Hen Harrier

#092 🐦 Common Wood Pigeon

#093 🐦 European Roller

#102 🐦 Mute Swan

#112 🐦 Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin

#114 🐦 Merlin

#123 🐦 Red-breasted Flycatcher

#124 🐦 Semicollared Flycatcher

#133 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#134 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#135 🐦 Common Crane

#136 🐦 Eurasian Oystercatcher

#137 🐦 Booted Eagle

#144 🐦 Caspian Tern

#155 🐦 Mew Gull

#160 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#167 🐦 Bluethroat

#168 🐦 Jack snipe

#170 🐦 Gadwall

#178 🐦 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush

#180 🐦 Northern Gannet

#190 🐦 Whimbrel

#199 🐦 Eurasian Scops Owl

#214 🐦 Western Bonelli's Warbler

#217 🐦 Yellow-browed Warbler

#218 🐦 Eastern Bonelli's Warbler

#222 🐦 Eurasian Spoonbill

#223 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#224 🐦 European Golden Plover

#229 🐦 Little Crake

#230 🐦 Spotted Crake

#238 🐦 Firecrest

#242 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#245 🐦 Eurasian Woodcock

#247 🐦 European Serin

#253 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#254 🐦 Great Skua

#268 🐦 Sardinian Warbler

#271 🐦 Rüppell's Warbler

#278 🐦 Spotted Redshank

#282 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#285 🐦 Redwing

#294 🐦 Northern Lapwing

#299 🐸 Painted Frog

#300 🦎 Turkish Gecko

#304 🦎 Cat Snake

Uncommon

#007 🦌 Black Rat

#009 🐦 Eurasian Sparrowhawk

#010 🐦 Great Reed Warbler

#014 🐦 Sedge Warbler

#015 🐦 Eurasian Reed Warbler

#021 🐦 Chukar

#024 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#027 🐦 Red-throated Pipit

#034 🐦 Pallid Swift

#036 🐦 Great Egret

#038 🐦 Purple Heron

#039 🐦 Squacco Heron

#041 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#044 🐦 Ferruginous Duck

#046 🐦 Cattle Egret

#051 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#055 🐦 Dunlin

#057 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#059 🐦 Ruff

#062 🐦 European Nightjar

#070 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#075 🐦 European greenfinch

#076 🐦 Slender-billed Gull

#084 🐦 Pallid Harrier

#085 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#095 🐦 Common Quail

#097 🐦 Common Cuckoo

#105 🐦 Corn Bunting

#109 🐦 Reed Bunting

#115 🐦 Eleonora's Falcon

#117 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#120 🐦 Red-footed Falcon

#121 🐦 Collared Flycatcher

#127 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#128 🐦 Common snipe

#138 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#139 🐦 Icterine Warbler

#143 🐦 Little Gull

#145 🐦 Audouin's Gull

#149 🐦 Eurasian Wryneck

#153 🐦 Woodchat Shrike

#154 🐦 Caspian Gull

#156 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#161 🐦 Common Linnet

#176 🐦 Black Kite

#182 🐦 Grey Wagtail

#192 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#194 🐦 Black-eared Wheatear

#195 🐦 Isabelline Wheatear

#198 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#200 🐦 Osprey

#203 🐦 Italian Sparrow

#210 🐦 Greater Flamingo

#226 🐦 Great Crested Grebe

#227 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#232 🐦 Dunnock

#236 🐦 Water Rail

#237 🐦 Pied Avocet

#239 🐦 Goldcrest

#248 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#249 🐦 Garganey

#251 🐦 Eurasian Siskin

#274 🐦 Little Grebe

#275 🐦 Alpine Swift

#276 🐦 Common Shelduck

#279 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#280 🐦 Common Greenshank

#281 🐦 Green sandpiper

#283 🐦 Common Redshank

#286 🐦 Common Blackbird

#297 🦎 Ocellated Skink

#298 🦎 Common Chameleon

#301 🦎 Western Whip Snake

#305 🦎 Pond Slider

Common

#003 🦌 Domestic Cat

#005 🦌 European Rabbit

#006 🦌 Common Pipistrelle

#016 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#018 🐦 Eurasian Skylark

#020 🐦 Common Kingfisher

#025 🐦 Mallard

#026 🐦 Tawny Pipit

#029 🐦 Meadow pipit

#032 🐦 Tree pipit

#033 🐦 Common Swift

#037 🐦 Grey Heron

#052 🐦 Greater Short-toed Lark

#058 🐦 Little Stint

#067 🐦 Cetti's Warbler

#078 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#082 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#086 🐦 Zitting Cisticola

#090 🐦 Rock Dove

#098 🐦 Eastern Subalpine Warbler

#099 🐦 Sardinian Warbler

#103 🐦 Common house martin

#104 🐦 Little Egret

#111 🐦 European Robin

#116 🐦 Lesser Kestrel

#118 🐦 Eurasian Hobby

#119 🐦 Common Kestrel

#122 🐦 European Pied Flycatcher

#125 🐦 Common Chaffinch

#130 🐦 Common Moorhen

#141 🐦 Barn Swallow

#146 🐦 Mediterranean Gull

#157 🐦 Yellow-legged Gull

#166 🐦 Common Nightingale

#175 🐦 European Bee-eater

#179 🐦 Blue rock thrush

#181 🐦 White Wagtail

#184 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#186 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#197 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#202 🐦 Spanish Sparrow

#204 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow

#206 🐦 European Honey Buzzard

#209 🐦 Great Cormorant

#212 🐦 Black Redstart

#213 🐦 Common Redstart

#215 🐦 Common Chiffchaff

#220 🐦 Wood Warbler

#221 🐦 Willow Warbler

#241 🐦 Sand Martin

#243 🐦 Whinchat

#244 🐦 European Stonechat

#257 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove

#258 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#260 🐦 Common Starling

#261 🐦 Eurasian Blackcap

#262 🐦 Garden Warbler

#264 🐦 Common Whitethroat

#265 🐦 Spectacled Warbler

#277 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#288 🐦 Song Thrush

#293 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

#302 🦎 Maltese Wall Lizard

#303 🦎 Moorish Gecko

Vagrants

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

#002 🦌 Sicilian Shrew

#011 🐦 Blyth's Reed Warbler

#013 🐦 Marsh Warbler

#017 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#019 🐦 Razorbill

#023 🐦 White-cheeked Pintail

#042 🐦 Common Pochard

#043 🐦 Tufted Duck

#047 🐦 Trumpeter Finch

#050 🐦 Long-Legged Buzzard

#053 🐦 Lesser Short-toed Lark

#054 🐦 Sanderling

#056 🐦 Red Knot

#064 🐦 Common Rosefinch

#065 🐦 Red-rumped Swallow

#066 🐦 Short-toed Treecreeper

#068 🐦 Kentish Plover

#072 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#073 🐦 White-winged Tern

#077 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#087 🐦 Great Spotted Cuckoo

#088 🐦 Hawfinch

#089 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#091 🐦 Stock Dove

#096 🐦 Corn Crake

#100 🐦 Moltoni's Warbler

#101 🐦 Eurasian Blue Tit

#106 🐦 Cirl Bunting

#107 🐦 Ortolan Bunting

#108 🐦 Rustic Bunting

#110 🐦 Temminck's Lark

#113 🐦 Yellow-crowned Bishop

#126 🐦 Brambling

#129 🐦 Great Snipe

#131 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#132 🐦 Eurasian Jay

#140 🐦 Melodious Warbler

#147 🐦 Western Olivaceous Warbler

#150 🐦 Red-backed Shrike

#151 🐦 Brown Shrike

#152 🐦 Great Grey Shrike

#158 🐦 Franklin's gull

#159 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#162 🐦 Savi's Warbler

#163 🐦 Common Grasshopper Warbler

#164 🐦 Red Crossbill

#165 🐦 Woodlark

#171 🐦 Marbled Duck

#172 🐦 Calandra Lark

#173 🐦 Budgerigar

#174 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#177 🐦 Red Kite

#183 🐦 Citrine Wagtail

#187 🐦 Monk Parakeet

#188 🐦 Egyptian Vulture

#189 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#191 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#193 🐦 Desert Wheatear

#196 🐦 White-crowned Wheatear

#201 🐦 House sparrow

#205 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#207 🐦 Crested Honey Buzzard

#208 🐦 European Shag

#211 🐦 Moussier's Redstart

#216 🐦 Iberian Chiffchaff

#219 🐦 Pallas's Leaf Warbler

#225 🐦 Grey Plover

#228 🐦 Purple Swamphen

#231 🐦 Baillon's Crake

#233 🐦 Pale Crag-martin

#234 🐦 Eurasian Crag Martin

#240 🐦 Eurasian Penduline Tit

#246 🐦 Atlantic Canary

#250 🐦 Laughing Dove

#252 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#255 🐦 Common Tern

#256 🐦 Little Tern

#259 🐦 Spotless Starling

#263 🐦 Subalpine Warbler

#267 🐦 Orphean Warbler

#269 🐦 Asian Desert Warbler

#270 🐦 Barred Warbler

#272 🐦 Marmora's Warbler

#284 🐦 Winter Wren

#287 🐦 Eyebrowed thrush

#289 🐦 Fieldfare

#291 🐦 Mistle Thrush

#292 🐦 Barn Owl

#295 🐦 Terek Sandpiper

Marine

Seen offshore.

#008 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#061 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#142 🐦 European Storm-Petrel

#235 🐦 Yelkouan Shearwater

#296 🦎 Loggerhead