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Mauritania wildlife

315 species in the Mauritania dex: 93 Common, 114 Uncommon, 94 Rare, 14 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.

#030 🦌 Fat-tailed Jird

#108 🐦 Temminck's Stint

#141 🐦 Jacobin Cuckoo

#151 🐦 Western Plantain-eater

#153 🐦 Common Cuckoo

#173 🐦 Dunn's Lark

#182 🐦 Yellow-crowned Bishop

#207 🐦 Grey-headed Kingfisher

#210 🐦 Pygmy Sunbird

#257 🐦 Singing Bush Lark

#306 🐦 Black Redstart

#335 🐦 Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse

#362 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#438 🦎 Southern Long-tailed Lizard

Rare

#002 🦌 Geoffroy's Trident Leaf-nosed Bat

#005 🦌 Caracal

#006 🦌 Green Monkey

#010 🦌 African Straw-colored Fruit Bat

#022 🦌 Sundevall's Leaf-nosed Bat

#025 🦌 Striped Polecat

#036 🦌 Fat Sand Rat

#041 🦌 Egyptian Free-tailed Bat

#056 🐦 Cut-throat Finch

#057 🐦 Orange-breasted Waxbill

#058 🐦 Black Crake

#062 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#064 🐦 African Darter

#067 🐦 Red-throated Pipit

#086 🐦 Black Crowned Crane

#087 🐦 Senegal Batis

#088 🐦 White-billed Buffalo Weaver

#089 🐦 Pharaoh Eagle-owl

#092 🐦 Trumpeter Finch

#093 🐦 Yellow-billed Oxpecker

#095 🐦 Senegal Thick-knee

#098 🐦 Long-Legged Buzzard

#099 🐦 Striated Heron

#110 🐦 Green-backed camaroptera

#112 🐦 Long-tailed Nightjar

#113 🐦 Golden Nightjar

#126 🐦 Diederik Cuckoo

#128 🐦 White stork

#129 🐦 Black Stork

#132 🐦 Short-toed Eagle

#135 🐦 Pallid Harrier

#138 🐦 Zitting Cisticola

#139 🐦 Winding Cisticola

#140 🐦 Great Spotted Cuckoo

#146 🐦 European Roller

#149 🐦 Malachite Kingfisher

#152 🐦 White-rumped Seedeater

#159 🐦 Fulvous Whistling Duck

#164 🐦 Black Heron

#168 🐦 Black-winged Kite

#170 🐦 Gosling's Bunting

#174 🐦 Yellow-bellied Eremomela

#180 🐦 Black-rumped waxbill

#183 🐦 Northern Red Bishop

#186 🐦 Lesser Kestrel

#203 🐦 Griffon Vulture

#206 🐦 Striped Kingfisher

#222 🐦 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler

#223 🐦 Eurasian Wryneck

#228 🐦 Yellow-crowned Gonolek

#232 🐦 Kelp Gull

#240 🐦 Common Nightingale

#246 🐦 Marbled Duck

#255 🐦 Gabar Goshawk

#259 🐦 Blue rock thrush

#265 🐦 Yellow-billed Stork

#266 🐦 Anteater Chat

#267 🐦 Egyptian Vulture

#268 🐦 African Pygmy-goose

#269 🐦 Brubru

#290 🐦 Eurasian Scops Owl

#303 🐦 Lesser Flamingo

#305 🐦 Green Woodhoopoe

#310 🐦 Iberian Chiffchaff

#313 🐦 African Spoonbill

#317 🐦 Village Weaver

#318 🐦 Little Weaver

#320 🐦 Vitelline Masked Weaver

#325 🐦 Senegal Parrot

#332 🐦 Tawny-flanked Prinia

#333 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet

#342 🐦 Eurasian Crag Martin

#346 🐦 Pied Avocet

#349 🐦 Greater Painted-snipe

#354 🐦 African stonechat

#361 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#371 🐦 Vinaceous Dove

#376 🐦 Lesser Whitethroat

#379 🐦 Northern Crombec

#383 🐦 Black-crowned Tchagra

#388 🐦 Sacred Ibis

#396 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#401 🐦 Black-billed Wood Dove

#402 🐦 Barn Owl

#406 🐦 African Wattled Lapwing

#408 🐦 Black-headed Lapwing

#409 🐦 Village Indigobird

#412 🦎 Golden Fringe-fingered Lizard

#427 🦎 Sahara Sand Viper

#437 🐸 Senegal Frog

#442 🦎 Black-necked Spitting Cobra

#456 🦎 Anderson's Short-fingered Gecko

#464 🦎 African five-lined skink

#465 🦎 Böhme's Agama

Uncommon

114

#003 🦌 Four-toed Hedgehog

#007 🦌 African Civet

#013 🦌 Wildcat

#015 🦌 Slender Mongoose

#017 🦌 Common Genet

#023 🦌 Crested Porcupine

#024 🦌 White-tailed Mongoose

#026 🦌 Lesser Egyptian Jerboa

#028 🦌 Honey Badger

#032 🦌 Desert Hedgehog

#049 🐦 Sedge Warbler

#050 🐦 Eurasian Reed Warbler

#052 🐦 African Jacana

#055 🐦 Egyptian Goose

#059 🐦 Bar-tailed Lark

#060 🐦 Desert Lark

#061 🐦 Northern Pintail

#066 🐦 Tawny Pipit

#069 🐦 Tree pipit

#071 🐦 Common Swift

#073 🐦 Pallid Swift

#080 🐦 Black-Headed Heron

#084 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#094 🐦 Eurasian stone-curlew

#100 🐦 Greater Short-toed Lark

#104 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#115 🐦 Senegal Coucal

#117 🐦 Pied Kingfisher

#120 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#121 🐦 White-winged Tern

#122 🐦 Black Tern

#123 🐦 Grey-headed Gull

#130 🐦 Beautiful Sunbird

#155 🐦 Sardinian Warbler

#156 🐦 Cream-Colored Courser

#157 🐦 African Palm Swift

#158 🐦 Common house martin

#160 🐦 White-faced Whistling-Duck

#162 🐦 African Grey Woodpecker

#167 🐦 Intermediate egret

#172 🐦 House Bunting

#176 🐦 Chestnut-backed Sparrow-lark

#178 🐦 Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin

#181 🐦 African Silverbill

#184 🐦 Lanner Falcon

#187 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#190 🐦 European Pied Flycatcher

#193 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#195 🐦 Common snipe

#197 🐦 Common Moorhen

#199 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#205 🐦 Eurasian Oystercatcher

#209 🐦 African Fish Eagle

#211 🐦 Booted Eagle

#213 🐦 Melodious Warbler

#214 🐦 Red-chested Swallow

#219 🐦 Audouin's Gull

#220 🐦 Mediterranean Gull

#224 🐦 Red-billed Firefinch

#225 🐦 Long-tailed Glossy Starling

#234 🐦 Yellow-legged Gull

#238 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#239 🐦 African Grey Hornbill

#241 🐦 Bluethroat

#242 🐦 Vieillot's Barbet

#248 🐦 White-throated Bee-eater

#249 🐦 European Bee-eater

#252 🐦 Little Bee-eater

#253 🐦 African Green Bee-eater

#260 🐦 Northern Gannet

#264 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#270 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#273 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#277 🐦 Desert Wheatear

#279 🐦 Black-eared Wheatear

#280 🐦 Isabelline Wheatear

#288 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#294 🐦 Northern Grey-headed Sparrow

#315 🐦 Spur-winged Goose

#319 🐦 Black-headed weaver

#341 🐦 Pale Crag-martin

#344 🐦 Common Bulbul

#345 🐦 Red-billed Quelea

#351 🐦 Knob-billed Duck

#352 🐦 Whinchat

#355 🐦 Hamerkop

#356 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#357 🐦 Garganey

#364 🐦 Common Tern

#366 🐦 Little Tern

#368 🐦 Mourning Collared Dove

#370 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#372 🐦 Eurasian Blackcap

#373 🐦 Garden Warbler

#374 🐦 Common Whitethroat

#375 🐦 Spectacled Warbler

#380 🐦 Little Grebe

#384 🐦 West African Crested Tern

#385 🐦 Lesser Crested Tern

#390 🐦 Western Red-billed Hornbill

#392 🐦 Spotted Redshank

#395 🐦 Green sandpiper

#404 🐦 Red-cheeked Cordonbleu

#413 🦎 Bosc’s Fringe-toed Lizard

#417 🦎 Common Agama

#423 🦎 Brown House Snake

#426 🦎 Desert Horned Viper

#431 🦎 Nile crocodile

#432 🦎 West African crocodile

#434 🦎 Egyptian Saw-scaled Viper

#435 🦎 House Gecko

#447 🦎 Forskal Sand Snake

#451 🦎 African Rock Python

#463 🦎 Teita Mabuya

Common

#004 🦌 African Golden Wolf

#011 🦌 Patas Monkey

#016 🦌 Dorcas Gazelle

#031 🦌 Guinea Baboon

#033 🦌 Common warthog

#035 🦌 Rock Hyrax

#045 🦌 Pale Fox

#048 🦌 Striped Ground Squirrel

#051 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#053 🐦 Greater Hoopoe-lark

#070 🐦 Little Swift

#077 🐦 Great Egret

#078 🐦 Grey Heron

#081 🐦 Purple Heron

#082 🐦 Squacco Heron

#083 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#091 🐦 Cattle Egret

#101 🐦 Sanderling

#102 🐦 Dunlin

#103 🐦 Red Knot

#106 🐦 Little Stint

#107 🐦 Ruff

#116 🐦 Black Scrub Robin

#118 🐦 Kentish Plover

#119 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#124 🐦 Slender-billed Gull

#125 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#133 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#136 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#143 🐦 Speckled Pigeon

#144 🐦 Rock Dove

#145 🐦 Abyssinian Roller

#147 🐦 Pied Crow

#148 🐦 Brown-necked Raven

#154 🐦 Western Subalpine Warbler

#165 🐦 Little Egret

#166 🐦 Western reef heron

#177 🐦 Black-crowned Sparrow-lark

#189 🐦 Common Kestrel

#194 🐦 Crested lark

#198 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#212 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#215 🐦 Barn Swallow

#218 🐦 Caspian Tern

#221 🐦 Western Olivaceous Warbler

#226 🐦 Greater Blue-eared Starling

#227 🐦 Chestnut-bellied Starling

#229 🐦 Great Grey Shrike

#231 🐦 Woodchat Shrike

#233 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#237 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#251 🐦 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

#254 🐦 Long-tailed Cormorant

#256 🐦 Black Kite

#261 🐦 White Wagtail

#263 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#271 🐦 Whimbrel

#276 🐦 Namaqua Dove

#281 🐦 White-crowned Wheatear

#284 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#292 🐦 Osprey

#293 🐦 House sparrow

#295 🐦 Sudan Golden Sparrow

#296 🐦 Desert Sparrow

#297 🐦 Great White Pelican

#300 🐦 Great Cormorant

#304 🐦 Greater Flamingo

#307 🐦 Common Redstart

#308 🐦 Western Bonelli's Warbler

#309 🐦 Common Chiffchaff

#312 🐦 Willow Warbler

#314 🐦 Eurasian Spoonbill

#316 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#322 🐦 Grey Plover

#328 🐦 Purple Swamphen

#348 🐦 Sand Martin

#358 🐦 Laughing Dove

#359 🐦 Cricket Warbler

#367 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove

#369 🐦 African Collared Dove

#378 🐦 Orphean Warbler

#386 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#393 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#394 🐦 Common Greenshank

#397 🐦 Common Redshank

#398 🐦 Fulvous Babbler

#403 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

#405 🐦 Blue-naped Mousebird

#407 🐦 Spur-winged Lapwing

#414 🦎 Duméril's Fringe-fingered Lizard

#436 🐸 Crowned Bullfrog

#455 🐸 Subdesert Toad

#470 🦎 Nile Monitor

Vagrants

150

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

#001 🦌 Chudeau's Spiny Mouse

#008 🦌 Pouched Gerbil

#009 🦌 North African Dipodil

#012 🦌 Sand Cat

#014 🦌 Felou Gundi

#018 🦌 Lesser Egyptian Gerbil

#019 🦌 Baluchistan Gerbil

#020 🦌 Greater Egyptian Gerbil

#021 🦌 Tarabul's Gerbil

#027 🦌 Typical Lemniscomys

#029 🦌 Angolan Free-tailed Bat

#034 🦌 Dalton's Praomys

#037 🦌 Rendall's Serotine

#038 🦌 Arabian Mouse-tailed Bat

#039 🦌 Lesser Mouse-tailed Bat

#040 🦌 White-bellied House Bat

#042 🦌 Egyptian Tomb Bat

#043 🦌 Sahel Gerbil

#046 🦌 Rüppell's Fox

#047 🦌 Fennec Fox

#054 🐦 Eurasian Skylark

#063 🐦 Mallard

#065 🐦 Sennar Penduline Tit

#068 🐦 Plain-backed Pipit

#072 🐦 White-rumped Swift

#074 🐦 Golden Eagle

#075 🐦 Bonelli's Eagle

#076 🐦 Tawny Eagle

#079 🐦 Goliath Heron

#085 🐦 Little Owl

#090 🐦 Verreaux's Eagle-owl

#096 🐦 Grasshopper Buzzard

#097 🐦 Common Buzzard

#105 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#109 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#111 🐦 Egyptian Nightjar

#114 🐦 Plain Nightjar

#127 🐦 Klaas's Cuckoo

#131 🐦 Beaudouin's Snake Eagle

#134 🐦 Hen Harrier

#137 🐦 Desert Cisticola

#142 🐦 Levaillant's Cuckoo

#150 🐦 Common Quail

#161 🐦 Little Grey Woodpecker

#163 🐦 Fork-tailed Drongo

#169 🐦 Corn Bunting

#171 🐦 Ortolan Bunting

#175 🐦 Temminck's Lark

#179 🐦 Orange-cheeked waxbill

#185 🐦 Red-necked Falcon

#188 🐦 Eurasian Hobby

#191 🐦 Atlas Flycatcher

#192 🐦 Common Chaffinch

#196 🐦 Great Snipe

#200 🐦 Pearl-spotted Owlet

#201 🐦 Bush Petronia

#202 🐦 White-backed Vulture

#204 🐦 Rüppell's Vulture

#208 🐦 Woodland Kingfisher

#216 🐦 Wire-tailed Swallow

#230 🐦 Isabelline Shrike

#235 🐦 Marabou Stork

#236 🐦 Franklin's gull

#243 🐦 Jack snipe

#244 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#245 🐦 Gadwall

#247 🐦 Dark Chanting-goshawk

#250 🐦 Red-throated Bee-eater

#258 🐦 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush

#262 🐦 Grey Wagtail

#272 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#275 🐦 Leach's Storm Petrel

#278 🐦 Heuglin's Wheatear

#282 🐦 Black Wheatear

#283 🐦 Red-rumped Wheatear

#285 🐦 Neumann's Starling

#286 🐦 Bridled Tern

#287 🐦 African Golden Oriole

#289 🐦 Black-faced Quail-Finch

#291 🐦 African Scops Owl

#298 🐦 Pink-Backed Pelican

#299 🐦 Red-billed Tropicbird

#301 🐦 White-breasted Cormorant

#302 🐦 Red Phalarope

#311 🐦 Wood Warbler

#321 🐦 European Golden Plover

#323 🐦 Egyptian Plover

#324 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#326 🐦 African Harrier-hawk

#327 🐦 Allen's Gallinule

#329 🐦 Little Crake

#330 🐦 Baillon's Crake

#331 🐦 River Prinia

#334 🐦 Double-spurred Francolin

#336 🐦 Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse

#337 🐦 Spotted Sandgrouse

#338 🐦 Stone Partridge

#339 🐦 Northern White-faced Owl

#340 🐦 Piapiac

#343 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#347 🐦 Black Scimitarbill

#350 🐦 African Skimmer

#353 🐦 European Stonechat

#360 🐦 Speckle-fronted Weaver

#363 🐦 Great Skua

#365 🐦 Arctic Tern

#377 🐦 African Desert Warbler

#381 🐦 Ruddy Shelduck

#382 🐦 Common Shelduck

#387 🐦 Mocking Cliff Chat

#389 🐦 Red-billed Hornbill

#391 🐦 Bruce's Green Pigeon

#399 🐦 Brown Babbler

#400 🐦 Common Blackbird

#410 🐦 Sahel paradise whydah

#411 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#415 🦎 Long Fringe-fingered Lizard

#416 🦎 Taghit Fringed-toed Lizard

#418 🦎 Boé Agama

#419 🦎 Mali Agama

#420 🦎 Boulenger's Agama

#421 🦎 Sahelian Burrowing Asp

#422 🦎 Dorr's Racer

#425 🦎 African spurred tortoise

#428 🦎 Duméril's Wedge-snouted Skink

#429 🦎 African Chameleon

#433 🦎 Sahel Egg Eater

#439 🦎 Awl-headed Snake

#440 🦎 Pasteur's Lizard

#441 🦎 Red-spotted Lizard

#443 🦎 Zolio's Shield-backed Ground Lizard

#444 🐸 Puddle Frog

#445 🦎 West-African Whip Snake

#446 🦎 Elegant Sand Racer

#448 🐸 Sudan Grassland Frog

#449 🐸 Dakar Grassland Frog

#450 🦎 Riva and Padial’s fan-footed gecko

#452 🦎 Western Sandfish

#453 🐸 Penton's Toad

#454 🐸 African Common Toad

#457 🦎 Elegant Gecko

#458 🦎 Ringed Wall Gecko

#459 🦎 African Wall Gecko

#460 🦎 Sierra Leone Wall Gecko

#461 🦎 Senegambian Wall Gecko

#462 🐸 Mali Screeching Frog

#466 🦎 Northern Sand Gecko

#467 🦎 Sudan Mastigure

#468 🦎 Savannah Monitor

#469 🦎 Desert Monitor

Marine

Seen offshore.

#044 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#217 🐦 European Storm-Petrel

#274 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#424 🦎 Loggerhead

#430 🦎 Green Turtle