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Mauritius wildlife

94 species in the Mauritius dex: 29 Common, 33 Uncommon, 29 Rare, 3 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.

#111 🐦 Brown skua

#115 🐦 Little Tern

#124 🐦 Greater Crested Tern

Rare

#001 🦌 Wolf

#011 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#014 🦌 Asian house shrew · introduced

#015 🦌 Mauritian Tomb Bat

#024 🐦 Meller's Duck

#025 🐦 Mallard

#032 🐦 Cattle Egret

#035 🐦 Muscovy Duck · introduced

#036 🐦 Sanderling

#041 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#049 🐦 Common Quail

#054 🐦 Crab-Plover

#058 🐦 Eleonora's Falcon

#065 🐦 Lesser frigatebird

#072 🐦 White tern

#074 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#079 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#081 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#084 🐦 Bridled Tern

#092 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#117 🐦 Brown Booby

#118 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#123 🐦 Lesser Crested Tern

#128 🐦 Terek Sandpiper

#131 🦎 Aldabra Giant Tortoise

#132 🦎 Radiated tortoise

#143 🦎 Spotted house gecko

#144 🦎 Round Island Skink

#145 🦎 Common Wolf Snake · introduced

Uncommon

#005 🦌 Indian Hare · introduced

#012 🦌 Javan Rusa · introduced

#016 🦌 Tailess Tenrec

#018 🐦 Rodrigues Warbler

#019 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#022 🐦 Egyptian Goose

#026 🐦 Brown Noddy

#031 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#037 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#042 🐦 Greater Sand Plover

#045 🐦 Mauritius Cuckooshrike

#061 🐦 Rodrigues Fody

#068 🐦 Common Moorhen

#076 🐦 Scaly-breasted Munia · introduced

#085 🐦 Sooty Tern

#086 🐦 Grey Francolin · introduced

#091 🐦 Red-tailed Tropicbird

#097 🐦 Grey Plover

#099 🐦 Echo Parakeet

#100 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet

#110 🐦 Laughing Dove

#114 🐦 Common Tern

#116 🐦 Masked Booby

#120 🐦 Mascarene Paradise Flycatcher

#125 🐦 Common Greenshank

#129 🐦 Mauritius Olive White-eye

#135 🦎 Nile crocodile

#138 🦎 Panther Chameleon

#139 🦎 Stump-toed Gecko · introduced

#141 🦎 Common House Gecko

#142 🦎 House Gecko

#146 🦎 Bluetail Day Gecko

#149 🦎 Ornate Day Gecko

Common

#002 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#006 🦌 Crab-eating Macaque · introduced

#008 🦌 Greater Mascarene Flying Fox

#017 🐦 Common myna · introduced

#020 🐦 Mascarene Swiftlet

#027 🐦 Lesser Noddy

#034 🐦 Striated Heron

#044 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#048 🐦 House crow · introduced

#050 🐦 Yellow-fronted Canary

#055 🐦 Common Waxbill

#060 🐦 Mauritius Kestrel

#062 🐦 Red Fody · introduced

#063 🐦 Mauritius Fody

#070 🐦 Zebra Dove · introduced

#073 🐦 Mauritius Bulbul

#077 🐦 Pink Pigeon

#078 🐦 Malagasy Turtle Dove

#080 🐦 Whimbrel

#087 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#090 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#093 🐦 Mascarene Martin

#095 🐦 Village Weaver

#106 🐦 Red-whiskered bulbul · introduced

#109 🐦 Spotted Dove · introduced

#130 🐦 Mauritius Gray White-eye

#133 🦎 Eastern Garden Lizard · introduced

#147 🦎 Madagascar Day Gecko · introduced

#151 🐸 Gutteral Toad · introduced

Vagrants

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

#003 🦌 Indian Gray Mongoose · introduced

#004 🦌 Small Asian Mongoose · introduced

#009 🦌 Moluccan Masked Flying Fox

#010 🦌 Rodrigues Flying Fox

#021 🐦 Grey-Headed Lovebird

#023 🐦 Red-billed Teal

#028 🐦 Common Swift

#029 🐦 Grey Heron

#030 🐦 Malagasy Pond Heron

#038 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#039 🐦 Little Stint

#040 🐦 Ruff

#043 🐦 White-winged Tern

#046 🐦 Black Parrot

#047 🐦 Greater Vasa Parrot

#051 🐦 Black swan · introduced

#052 🐦 White-faced Whistling-Duck

#053 🐦 Wandering albatross

#056 🐦 Broad-billed Roller

#057 🐦 Sooty Falcon

#059 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#064 🐦 Chinese Francolin · introduced

#066 🐦 Great Frigatebird

#067 🐦 White-bellied Storm-petrel

#069 🐦 Red Junglefowl · introduced

#071 🐦 Madagascar Pratincole

#075 🐦 Java Sparrow · introduced

#082 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#083 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#088 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#089 🐦 Pink-Backed Pelican

#094 🐦 Greater Flamingo

#096 🐦 Southern Masked Weaver

#098 🐦 Mauritius parakeet

#104 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#107 🐦 Dodo

#108 🐦 Garganey

#112 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#113 🐦 Roseate Tern

#119 🐦 Alpine Swift

#121 🐦 Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross

#122 🐦 Black-browed Albatross

#126 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#127 🐦 Madagascar Buttonquail · introduced

#136 🦎 Snake-eyed Skink

#140 🦎 Bojer's Skink

#148 🦎 Orange-spotted Day Gecko

#150 🦎 Upland Forest Day Gecko

Marine

Seen offshore.

#007 🦌 Humpback Whale

#013 🦌 Spinner Dolphin

#033 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#101 🐦 Trindade Petrel

#102 🐦 Barau's Petrel

#103 🐦 Tropical Shearwater

#105 🐦 Wedge-tailed shearwater

#134 🦎 Green Turtle

#137 🦎 Hawksbill turtle