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Massachusetts wildlife

466 species in the Massachusetts dex: 144 Common, 164 Uncommon, 136 Rare, 22 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.

#031 🦌 Southern Red-backed Vole

#064 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#067 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#077 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#087 🐦 Swan Goose

#103 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#134 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#205 🐦 Yellow Rail

#250 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#285 🐦 Herring Gull

#286 🐦 Short-billed Gull

#328 🐦 Budgerigar · introduced

#345 🐦 Hudsonian Whimbrel

#350 🐦 Cockatiel

#371 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#403 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#470 🐦 Saffron Finch

#489 🐦 South Polar Skua

#499 🐦 African Collared Dove

#514 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#554 🐦 Golden-crowned Sparrow

#570 🦎 Timber rattlesnake

Rare

136

#001 🦌 Moose

#009 🦌 Big Brown Bat

#013 🦌 Southern Flying Squirrel

#019 🦌 Red Bat

#021 🦌 Bobcat

#028 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#029 🦌 Ermine

#045 🦌 Cinereus Shrew

#054 🦌 Meadow jumping mouse

#056 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#059 🐦 Western Grebe

#072 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#073 🐦 Seaside Sparrow

#074 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#084 🐦 Greylag Goose

#085 🐦 Pink-footed Goose

#089 🐦 Ross's Goose

#091 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#093 🐦 Golden Eagle

#107 🐦 Tufted Duck

#111 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#113 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#118 🐦 Cackling Goose

#119 🐦 Barnacle Goose

#123 🐦 Cattle Egret

#136 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#137 🐦 Lark Bunting

#140 🐦 Smith's Longspur

#144 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#146 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#150 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#152 🐦 Little Stint

#154 🐦 Ruff

#157 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#166 🐦 European Goldfinch

#171 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#177 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#183 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#186 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#190 🐦 Sedge Wren

#198 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#209 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#210 🐦 Tundra Swan

#213 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#221 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#222 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#224 🐦 Western Flycatcher

#225 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#226 🐦 Hammond's Flycatcher

#229 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher

#233 🐦 White Ibis

#237 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#243 🐦 Atlantic Puffin

#253 🐦 Pacific Loon

#255 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#256 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#258 🐦 MacGillivray's Warbler

#268 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#271 🐦 Little Gull

#272 🐦 Caspian Tern

#275 🐦 Bullock's Oriole

#278 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#280 🐦 Varied Thrush

#284 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike

#288 🐦 Mew Gull

#305 🐦 Franklin's gull

#308 🐦 Swainson's Warbler

#309 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#316 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#323 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker

#338 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#340 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#343 🐦 Monk Parakeet · introduced

#347 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#354 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#357 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#358 🐦 Sage Thrasher

#369 🐦 Painted Bunting

#372 🐦 American White Pelican

#373 🐦 Brown Pelican

#375 🐦 Cave Swallow

#382 🐦 Red Phalarope

#383 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#384 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#390 🐦 Pine Grosbeak

#393 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#394 🐦 Western Tanager

#396 🐦 Summer Tanager

#399 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#407 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#411 🐦 Boreal Chickadee

#414 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#418 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#426 🐦 Vermilion Flycatcher

#430 🐦 King Rail

#432 🐦 American Avocet

#437 🐦 Black Skimmer

#439 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#443 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#446 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#451 🐦 Cerulean Warbler

#452 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#455 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#458 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#466 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#468 🐦 Mountain Bluebird

#488 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#491 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#496 🐦 Arctic Tern

#502 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#504 🐦 Brown Booby

#513 🐦 Royal Tern

#527 🐦 Gray Kingbird

#528 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#530 🐦 Fork-tailed Flycatcher

#532 🐦 Western Kingbird

#534 🐦 American Barn Owl

#535 🐦 Common Murre

#537 🐦 Northern Lapwing

#538 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#541 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#549 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#550 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#551 🐦 White-winged Dove

#556 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#568 🦎 Spotted Turtle

#574 🦎 Blanding's turtle

#576 🦎 Wood turtle

#578 🐸 Spring Salamander

#579 🐸 Four-toed Salamander

#589 🦎 Smooth Green Snake

#592 🦎 Italian Wall Lizard · introduced

#594 🦎 American Red-bellied Turtle

#595 🦎 Common Musk Turtle

#597 🦎 Redbelly Snake

#598 🦎 Common Box Turtle

Uncommon

164

#003 🦌 Northern Short-tailed Shrew

#008 🦌 Virginia opossum

#010 🦌 North American porcupine

#012 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#020 🦌 North American River Otter

#024 🦌 Striped Skunk

#026 🦌 Meadow vole

#037 🦌 Fisher

#038 🦌 White-footed Mouse

#039 🦌 Harbor Seal

#042 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#051 🦌 Gray Fox

#052 🦌 American Black Bear

#055 🐦 Common Redpoll

#057 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#060 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#066 🐦 Razorbill

#068 🐦 Little Auk

#070 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#071 🐦 Saltmarsh Sparrow

#076 🐦 Northern Pintail

#083 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#086 🐦 Snow Goose

#090 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#092 🐦 Eastern Whip-poor-will

#101 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#102 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#104 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#105 🐦 Redhead

#108 🐦 Greater scaup

#109 🐦 Canvasback

#114 🐦 Ruffed Grouse

#115 🐦 American Bittern

#121 🐦 Snowy Owl

#122 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#126 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#130 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#131 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#132 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#138 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#143 🐦 Dunlin

#145 🐦 Red Knot

#147 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#148 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#149 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#151 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#163 🐦 Canada Warbler

#164 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#172 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#174 🐦 Black Guillemot

#178 🐦 Piping Plover

#182 🐦 Black Tern

#184 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#185 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#189 🐦 Marsh Wren

#192 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#193 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#195 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#201 🐦 Black Vulture

#214 🐦 Bobolink

#218 🐦 Little blue heron

#223 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#227 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#228 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#231 🐦 Horned Lark

#234 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#238 🐦 Merlin

#240 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#241 🐦 American Kestrel

#246 🐦 American Coot

#248 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#249 🐦 Common Moorhen

#257 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#260 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#261 🐦 American Oystercatcher

#266 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#267 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#270 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#274 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#277 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#283 🐦 Northern Shrike

#291 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#292 🐦 Iceland Gull

#294 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#299 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#300 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#301 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#306 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#307 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#310 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#315 🐦 Red Crossbill

#317 🐦 American Wigeon

#318 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#321 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#330 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#337 🐦 Northern Gannet

#346 🐦 Whimbrel

#348 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#349 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#359 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#362 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#363 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#366 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#368 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#370 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#376 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#381 🐦 Great Cormorant

#385 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#398 🐦 Snow Bunting

#400 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#402 🐦 American Golden Plover

#405 🐦 Horned Grebe

#406 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#408 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#413 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#415 🐦 Sora

#416 🐦 Purple Martin

#429 🐦 Clapper Rail

#431 🐦 Virginia Rail

#435 🐦 Sand Martin

#436 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#440 🐦 American Woodcock

#449 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#450 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#454 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#456 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#457 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#460 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#465 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#474 🐦 King Eider

#475 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#476 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#480 🐦 Pine Siskin

#482 🐦 Dickcissel

#483 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#487 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#490 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#493 🐦 Roseate Tern

#494 🐦 Forster's Tern

#500 🐦 Barred owl

#501 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#516 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#518 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#522 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#524 🐦 Winter Wren

#536 🐦 Thick-billed Murre

#539 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#542 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#545 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#547 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#555 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#560 🐸 Spotted Salamander

#564 🐸 Fowler's Toad

#569 🦎 Eastern Racer

#571 🐸 Northern Dusky Salamander

#572 🦎 Ringneck Snake

#573 🐸 Gray Treefrog

#575 🐸 Northern Two-lined Salamander

#580 🦎 Eastern Milksnake

#584 🐸 Northern Leopard Frog

#587 🦎 Northern Water Snake

#596 🦎 Brown Snake

#599 🦎 Eastern Ribbonsnake

#601 🦎 Pond Slider

Common

144

#004 🦌 Coyote

#005 🦌 American beaver

#015 🦌 Grey seal

#022 🦌 Woodchuck

#032 🦌 White-tailed deer

#033 🦌 Muskrat

#041 🦌 Raccoon

#044 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#048 🦌 Eastern Cottontail

#049 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#050 🦌 Red Squirrel

#053 🦌 Red Fox

#058 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#063 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#065 🐦 Wood Duck

#078 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#080 🐦 Mallard

#081 🐦 American Black Duck

#097 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#098 🐦 Great Egret

#100 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#106 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#110 🐦 Tufted Titmouse

#112 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#116 🐦 Brent Goose

#117 🐦 Canada goose

#124 🐦 Bufflehead

#125 🐦 Common goldeneye

#129 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#135 🐦 Green Heron

#142 🐦 Sanderling

#153 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#155 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#165 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#167 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#169 🐦 Veery

#170 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#175 🐦 Brown Creeper

#176 🐦 Chimney Swift

#179 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#180 🐦 Killdeer

#188 🐦 Hen Harrier

#191 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#194 🐦 Northern Flicker

#196 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#200 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#202 🐦 American Crow

#203 🐦 Common Raven

#204 🐦 Fish Crow

#207 🐦 Blue Jay

#211 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#215 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#216 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#217 🐦 Gray Catbird

#220 🐦 Snowy egret

#252 🐦 Common Loon

#254 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#259 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#262 🐦 House Finch

#263 🐦 Purple Finch

#264 🐦 Bald Eagle

#269 🐦 Barn Swallow

#273 🐦 Wood Thrush

#276 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#281 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#290 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#295 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#297 🐦 American Herring Gull

#303 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#304 🐦 Laughing Gull

#314 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#319 🐦 Gadwall

#320 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#322 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#324 🐦 Black Scoter

#325 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#326 🐦 Surf Scoter

#327 🐦 Wild Turkey

#329 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#331 🐦 Song Sparrow

#332 🐦 Goosander

#333 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#334 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#335 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#336 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#341 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#361 🐦 Osprey

#364 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#365 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#380 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#386 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#392 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#395 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#404 🐦 Grey Plover

#409 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#412 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#428 🐦 Common Grackle

#433 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#434 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#438 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#441 🐦 Ovenbird

#447 🐦 Northern Parula

#453 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#459 🐦 Palm Warbler

#461 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#462 🐦 Pine Warbler

#463 🐦 American Redstart

#464 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#467 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#469 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#471 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#472 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#473 🐦 Common Eider

#478 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#481 🐦 American Goldfinch

#484 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#485 🐦 Field Sparrow

#486 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#495 🐦 Common Tern

#497 🐦 Least Tern

#503 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#507 🐦 Tree Swallow

#515 🐦 Carolina Wren

#519 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#521 🐦 Willet

#523 🐦 House Wren

#525 🐦 American Robin

#531 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#544 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#546 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#548 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#552 🐦 Mourning Dove

#553 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#563 🐸 American Toad

#566 🦎 Common snapping turtle

#567 🦎 Painted Turtle

#581 🐸 American Bullfrog

#582 🐸 Green Frog

#583 🐸 Pickerel Frog

#585 🐸 Wood Frog

#588 🐸 Eastern Newt

#591 🐸 Redback Salamander

#593 🐸 Spring Peeper

#600 🦎 Common Garter Snake

Vagrants

126

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

#002 🦌 Minke Whale

#006 🦌 Star-nosed Mole

#011 🦌 North Atlantic Right Whale · location protected

#014 🦌 Long-finned pilot whale

#016 🦌 Pygmy Sperm Whale

#017 🦌 Atlantic White-sided Dolphin

#018 🦌 Silver-haired Bat

#025 🦌 Sowerby's Beaked Whale

#027 🦌 Woodland vole

#030 🦌 Long-tailed Weasel

#034 🦌 European Rabbit · introduced

#035 🦌 Harp Seal

#036 🦌 Hairy-tailed Mole

#040 🦌 Harbor porpoise

#043 🦌 Eastern Mole

#046 🦌 Smoky Shrew

#047 🦌 Wild Boar · introduced

#061 🐦 Boreal Owl

#062 🐦 Rosy-faced Lovebird

#069 🐦 Egyptian Goose · introduced

#075 🐦 Black-Throated Sparrow

#079 🐦 Mottled Duck

#082 🐦 Anhinga

#088 🐦 Bar-headed Goose

#094 🐦 Limpkin

#095 🐦 Red-masked parakeet · introduced

#096 🐦 Black-chinned Hummingbird

#099 🐦 Grey Heron

#120 🐦 White-winged Parakeet · introduced

#127 🐦 White-tailed hawk

#128 🐦 Zone-tailed Hawk

#133 🐦 Ferruginous hawk

#139 🐦 Chestnut-collared longspur

#141 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#156 🐦 Red-necked stint

#158 🐦 California Quail

#159 🐦 Gambel's Quail

#161 🐦 Anna's Hummingbird

#162 🐦 Southern Caracara

#168 🐦 Bicknell's Thrush

#173 🐦 Henslow's Sparrow

#181 🐦 White-winged Tern

#187 🐦 Golden Pheasant

#197 🐦 Common Ground-Dove

#199 🐦 Western wood-pewee

#206 🐦 Yellow-fronted Canary

#208 🐦 Black swan

#212 🐦 Broad-billed Hummingbird

#219 🐦 Little Egret

#230 🐦 Grey Flycatcher

#232 🐦 Orange-cheeked waxbill

#235 🐦 Brewer's Blackbird

#236 🐦 Northern Red Bishop

#239 🐦 Prairie Falcon

#242 🐦 Eurasian Hobby

#244 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird

#245 🐦 Common Chaffinch

#251 🐦 Yellow-billed Loon

#265 🐦 Steller's Sea Eagle

#279 🐦 Least Bittern

#282 🐦 Willow Ptarmigan

#287 🐦 California Gull

#289 🐦 Black-tailed Gull

#293 🐦 Heermann's Gull

#296 🐦 Slaty-backed Gull

#298 🐦 Vega Gull

#302 🐦 Virginia's Warbler

#311 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#312 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#313 🐦 Scaly-breasted Munia · introduced

#339 🐦 Wood Stork

#342 🐦 Painted Whitestart

#344 🐦 Nanday parakeet · introduced

#352 🐦 Band-rumped storm-petrel

#355 🐦 Bridled Tern

#356 🐦 Sooty Tern

#360 🐦 Ivory Gull

#367 🐦 Lazuli Bunting

#374 🐦 Gray Jay

#377 🐦 Bachman's Sparrow

#378 🐦 Cassin's Sparrow

#379 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#387 🐦 Black-headed Grosbeak

#388 🐦 American Flamingo

#389 🐦 Black-backed Woodpecker

#391 🐦 Green-tailed Towhee

#397 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#401 🐦 European Golden Plover

#410 🐦 Carolina Chickadee

#417 🐦 Brown-Chested Martin · introduced

#419 🐦 Black-capped Petrel · location protected

#422 🐦 Audubon's Shearwater

#424 🐦 Short-Tailed Shearwater

#425 🐦 Red-whiskered bulbul · introduced

#427 🐦 Great-tailed Grackle

#442 🐦 Calliope Hummingbird

#444 🐦 Allen's Hummingbird

#445 🐦 Atlantic Canary

#448 🐦 Audubon's Warbler

#477 🐦 Garganey

#479 🐦 Spotted Dove · introduced

#492 🐦 Great Skua

#498 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#505 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#506 🐦 Ancient Murrelet

#508 🐦 Violet-green Swallow

#509 🐦 Ruddy Shelduck

#510 🐦 Common Shelduck

#511 🐦 Zebra Finch

#512 🐦 Elegant Tern

#517 🐦 Grey-tailed Tattler

#520 🐦 Common Greenshank

#526 🐦 Fieldfare

#529 🐦 Tropical Kingbird

#533 🐦 Cassin's Kingbird

#540 🐦 Black-whiskered Vireo

#543 🐦 Yellow-green Vireo

#557 🦎 Copperhead

#558 🐸 Jefferson Salamander

#559 🐸 Blue-spotted Salamander

#561 🐸 Marbled Salamander

#562 🐸 Ambystoma unisexual

#565 🦎 Brown Anole · introduced

#577 🦎 Ouachita map turtle

#586 🦎 Diamondback Terrapin

#590 🦎 Eastern Rat Snake

Marine

Seen offshore.

#007 🦌 Common Dolphin

#023 🦌 Humpback Whale

#160 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#247 🐦 Northern Fulmar

#351 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#353 🐦 Leach's Storm Petrel

#420 🐦 Great Shearwater

#421 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#423 🐦 Manx Shearwater