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452 species in the Michigan dex: 137 Common, 158 Uncommon, 136 Rare, 21 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.

#023 🦌 American Marten

#053 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#060 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#062 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#063 🐦 Egyptian Goose · introduced

#069 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#078 🐦 Swan Goose

#153 🐦 European Goldfinch

#191 🐦 Black swan

#223 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird

#229 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#307 🐦 Budgerigar · introduced

#328 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#350 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#365 🐦 Black-billed Magpie

#367 🐦 American Three-toed Woodpecker

#466 🐦 African Collared Dove

#476 🐦 Ruddy Shelduck

#499 🐦 American Barn Owl

#522 🐸 Tiger Salamander

#537 🦎 Ouachita map turtle

Rare

136

#010 🦌 Big Brown Bat

#019 🦌 North American River Otter

#027 🦌 Ermine

#034 🦌 White-footed Mouse

#035 🦌 North American Deermouse

#037 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#038 🦌 Eastern Mole

#041 🦌 Cinereus Shrew

#044 🦌 Least Chipmunk

#049 🦌 American Black Bear

#056 🐦 Western Grebe

#057 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#058 🐦 Boreal Owl

#065 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#066 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#075 🐦 Greylag Goose

#079 🐦 Ross's Goose

#082 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#085 🐦 Limpkin

#098 🐦 Tufted Duck

#108 🐦 Brent Goose

#114 🐦 Cattle Egret

#117 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#124 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#126 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#127 🐦 Lark Bunting

#130 🐦 Smith's Longspur

#135 🐦 Red Knot

#137 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#139 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#140 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#143 🐦 Ruff

#145 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#148 🐦 Spruce Grouse

#167 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#170 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#180 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#185 🐦 Black Vulture

#188 🐦 Fish Crow

#189 🐦 Yellow Rail

#197 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#202 🐦 Little blue heron

#203 🐦 Snowy egret

#204 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#205 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#217 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#232 🐦 Pacific Loon

#235 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#238 🐦 Whooping Crane

#244 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#246 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#248 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#249 🐦 Little Gull

#252 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#257 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#259 🐦 Varied Thrush

#262 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike

#265 🐦 California Gull

#271 🐦 Iceland Gull

#274 🐦 Slaty-backed Gull

#284 🐦 Laughing Gull

#285 🐦 Franklin's gull

#288 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#289 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#290 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#296 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#320 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#322 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#327 🐦 Whimbrel

#329 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#333 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#339 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#342 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow · introduced

#346 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#347 🐦 Painted Bunting

#353 🐦 Gray Jay

#357 🐦 Neotropic cormorant

#358 🐦 Red Phalarope

#359 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#360 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#363 🐦 Black-headed Grosbeak

#366 🐦 Black-backed Woodpecker

#371 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#373 🐦 Western Tanager

#375 🐦 Summer Tanager

#376 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#378 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#379 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#384 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#387 🐦 Boreal Chickadee

#395 🐦 Vermilion Flycatcher

#398 🐦 King Rail

#400 🐦 American Avocet

#406 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#411 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#414 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#415 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#422 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#423 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#427 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#437 🐦 Mountain Bluebird

#441 🐦 Common Eider

#442 🐦 King Eider

#444 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#458 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#459 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#460 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#463 🐦 Arctic Tern

#465 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#470 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#484 🐦 Willet

#493 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#494 🐦 Tropical Kingbird

#495 🐦 Fork-tailed Flycatcher

#497 🐦 Western Kingbird

#503 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#506 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#511 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#512 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#513 🐦 White-winged Dove

#516 🐦 Golden-crowned Sparrow

#518 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#523 🐸 Ambystoma unisexual

#530 🦎 Spotted Turtle

#535 🦎 Wood turtle

#538 🐸 Four-toed Salamander

#540 🦎 Eastern Milksnake

#545 🐸 Mink Frog

#547 🐸 Mudpuppy

#550 🦎 Smooth Green Snake

#552 🦎 Eastern Fox Snake

#557 🦎 Queen Snake

#558 🦎 Massasauga

#559 🦎 Common Musk Turtle

#563 🦎 Butler's Garter Snake

#564 🦎 Eastern Ribbonsnake

Uncommon

158

#002 🦌 Moose

#003 🦌 Northern Short-tailed Shrew

#004 🦌 Coyote

#005 🦌 Wolf

#009 🦌 Virginia opossum

#011 🦌 North American porcupine

#012 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#015 🦌 Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel

#018 🦌 Snowshoe Hare

#024 🦌 Striped Skunk

#050 🦌 Red Fox

#052 🐦 Common Redpoll

#054 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#064 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#068 🐦 Northern Pintail

#070 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#072 🐦 American Black Duck

#074 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#077 🐦 Snow Goose

#080 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#083 🐦 Eastern Whip-poor-will

#084 🐦 Golden Eagle

#090 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#092 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#099 🐦 Greater scaup

#100 🐦 Canvasback

#102 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#105 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#106 🐦 Ruffed Grouse

#107 🐦 American Bittern

#110 🐦 Cackling Goose

#112 🐦 Snowy Owl

#113 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#120 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#121 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#122 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#128 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#132 🐦 Sanderling

#133 🐦 Dunlin

#134 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#138 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#141 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#142 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#144 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#150 🐦 Canada Warbler

#151 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#155 🐦 Veery

#157 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#158 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#159 🐦 Henslow's Sparrow

#162 🐦 Piping Plover

#163 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#166 🐦 Black Tern

#168 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#169 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#172 🐦 Hen Harrier

#173 🐦 Marsh Wren

#174 🐦 Sedge Wren

#175 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#176 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#177 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#183 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#193 🐦 Tundra Swan

#198 🐦 Bobolink

#206 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#207 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#209 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#210 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#211 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher

#215 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#216 🐦 Brewer's Blackbird

#218 🐦 Merlin

#220 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#227 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#228 🐦 Common Moorhen

#233 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#236 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#245 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#250 🐦 Caspian Tern

#256 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#261 🐦 Northern Shrike

#269 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#272 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#273 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#277 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#279 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#287 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#293 🐦 Red Crossbill

#294 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#295 🐦 American Wigeon

#299 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#301 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker

#303 🐦 Black Scoter

#304 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#305 🐦 Surf Scoter

#309 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#314 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#330 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#335 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#340 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#344 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#351 🐦 American White Pelican

#355 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#361 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#368 🐦 Pine Grosbeak

#377 🐦 Snow Bunting

#380 🐦 American Golden Plover

#381 🐦 Grey Plover

#382 🐦 Horned Grebe

#383 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#389 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#391 🐦 Sora

#392 🐦 Purple Martin

#393 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#399 🐦 Virginia Rail

#405 🐦 Sand Martin

#412 🐦 American Woodcock

#416 🐦 Northern Parula

#417 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#418 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#419 🐦 Cerulean Warbler

#420 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#424 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#425 🐦 Kirtland's Warbler

#433 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#434 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#443 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#451 🐦 Dickcissel

#453 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#461 🐦 Forster's Tern

#462 🐦 Common Tern

#468 🐦 Barred owl

#482 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#483 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#485 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#488 🐦 Winter Wren

#490 🐦 Sharp-tailed Grouse

#501 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#502 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#508 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#510 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#519 🐸 Blanchard's Cricket Frog

#520 🐸 Blue-spotted Salamander

#521 🐸 Spotted Salamander

#525 🐸 Fowler's Toad

#526 🦎 Brown Anole · introduced

#527 🦎 Spiny softshell turtle

#531 🦎 Eastern Racer

#532 🦎 Ringneck Snake

#534 🦎 Blanding's turtle

#536 🦎 Common map turtle

#539 🦎 Eastern Hognose Snake

#543 🐸 Pickerel Frog

#551 🦎 Eastern Rat Snake

#553 🦎 Five-lined Skink

#556 🐸 Western Chorus Frog

#560 🦎 Brown Snake

#561 🦎 Redbelly Snake

Common

137

#006 🦌 American beaver

#022 🦌 Woodchuck

#030 🦌 White-tailed deer

#031 🦌 Muskrat

#036 🦌 Raccoon

#039 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#040 🦌 Fox Squirrel

#043 🦌 Eastern Cottontail

#045 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#046 🦌 Red Squirrel

#055 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#059 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#061 🐦 Wood Duck

#071 🐦 Mallard

#087 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#088 🐦 Great Egret

#089 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#095 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#096 🐦 Redhead

#097 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#101 🐦 Tufted Titmouse

#104 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#109 🐦 Canada goose

#115 🐦 Bufflehead

#116 🐦 Common goldeneye

#119 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#125 🐦 Green Heron

#152 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#154 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#156 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#160 🐦 Brown Creeper

#161 🐦 Chimney Swift

#164 🐦 Killdeer

#178 🐦 Northern Flicker

#181 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#184 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#186 🐦 American Crow

#187 🐦 Common Raven

#190 🐦 Blue Jay

#192 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#195 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#199 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#200 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#201 🐦 Gray Catbird

#213 🐦 Horned Lark

#222 🐦 American Kestrel

#226 🐦 American Coot

#231 🐦 Common Loon

#237 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#239 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#241 🐦 House Finch

#242 🐦 Purple Finch

#243 🐦 Bald Eagle

#247 🐦 Barn Swallow

#251 🐦 Wood Thrush

#255 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#260 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#268 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#275 🐦 American Herring Gull

#280 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#283 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#292 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#297 🐦 Gadwall

#298 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#300 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#306 🐦 Wild Turkey

#308 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#310 🐦 Song Sparrow

#312 🐦 Goosander

#313 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#315 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#316 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#323 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#337 🐦 Osprey

#341 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#343 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#348 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#356 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#362 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#370 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#374 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#385 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#386 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#388 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#397 🐦 Common Grackle

#401 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#402 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#410 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#413 🐦 Ovenbird

#421 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#426 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#428 🐦 Palm Warbler

#429 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#430 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#431 🐦 Pine Warbler

#432 🐦 American Redstart

#436 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#438 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#439 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#440 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#445 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#448 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#449 🐦 Pine Siskin

#450 🐦 American Goldfinch

#454 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#455 🐦 Field Sparrow

#456 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#457 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#469 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#471 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#474 🐦 Tree Swallow

#479 🐦 Carolina Wren

#480 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#487 🐦 House Wren

#489 🐦 American Robin

#496 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#504 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#505 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#507 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#514 🐦 Mourning Dove

#515 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#517 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#524 🐸 American Toad

#528 🦎 Common snapping turtle

#529 🦎 Painted Turtle

#533 🐸 Gray Treefrog

#541 🐸 American Bullfrog

#542 🐸 Green Frog

#544 🐸 Northern Leopard Frog

#546 🐸 Wood Frog

#548 🦎 Northern Water Snake

#549 🐸 Eastern Newt

#554 🐸 Redback Salamander

#555 🐸 Spring Peeper

#562 🦎 Common Box Turtle

#565 🦎 Common Garter Snake

#566 🦎 Pond Slider

Vagrants

114

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

#001 🦌 North American Hoary Bat

#007 🦌 Red deer

#008 🦌 Star-nosed Mole

#013 🦌 Northern Flying Squirrel

#014 🦌 Southern Flying Squirrel

#016 🦌 Silver-haired Bat

#017 🦌 Red Bat

#020 🦌 Canadian Lynx

#021 🦌 Bobcat

#025 🦌 Meadow vole

#026 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#028 🦌 Little Brown Myotis

#029 🦌 Northern Myotis · location protected

#032 🦌 European Rabbit · introduced

#033 🦌 Fisher

#042 🦌 American Pygmy Shrew

#047 🦌 American Badger

#048 🦌 Gray Fox

#051 🦌 Meadow jumping mouse

#067 🐦 Black-Throated Sparrow

#073 🐦 Anhinga

#076 🐦 Pink-footed Goose

#081 🐦 Sprague's Pipit

#086 🐦 Black-chinned Hummingbird

#091 🐦 Sagebrush Sparrow

#093 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#094 🐦 Burrowing Owl

#103 🐦 White-eared Hummingbird

#111 🐦 Barnacle Goose

#118 🐦 Short-tailed Hawk

#123 🐦 Ferruginous hawk

#129 🐦 Chestnut-collared longspur

#131 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#136 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#146 🐦 Anna's Hummingbird

#147 🐦 Costa's Hummingbird

#149 🐦 Southern Caracara

#165 🐦 White-winged Tern

#171 🐦 Golden Pheasant

#179 🐦 Green Violetear

#182 🐦 Common Ground-Dove

#194 🐦 Whooper Swan

#196 🐦 Broad-billed Hummingbird

#208 🐦 Hammond's Flycatcher

#212 🐦 Variegated Flycatcher

#214 🐦 White Ibis

#219 🐦 Prairie Falcon

#221 🐦 Gyrfalcon

#224 🐦 Common Chaffinch

#225 🐦 Brambling

#230 🐦 Yellow-billed Loon

#234 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#240 🐦 Cassin's Finch

#253 🐦 Bullock's Oriole

#254 🐦 Hooded Oriole

#258 🐦 Least Bittern

#263 🐦 Herring Gull

#264 🐦 Short-billed Gull

#266 🐦 Mew Gull

#267 🐦 Black-tailed Gull

#270 🐦 Glaucous-winged gull

#276 🐦 Vega Gull

#278 🐦 Lucy's Warbler

#281 🐦 Virginia's Warbler

#282 🐦 Red-cockaded Woodpecker

#286 🐦 Gray-crowned Rosy-finch

#291 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#302 🐦 Lewis's Woodpecker

#311 🐦 Smew

#317 🐦 Shiny Cowbird

#318 🐦 Northern Gannet

#319 🐦 White Wagtail

#321 🐦 Wood Stork

#324 🐦 Monk Parakeet · introduced

#325 🐦 Long-billed Curlew

#326 🐦 Hudsonian Whimbrel

#331 🐦 Cockatiel

#332 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#334 🐦 Sage Thrasher

#336 🐦 Ivory Gull

#338 🐦 Harris's Hawk

#345 🐦 Lazuli Bunting

#349 🐦 Band-tailed Pigeon

#352 🐦 Brown Pelican

#354 🐦 Cave Swallow

#364 🐦 American Flamingo

#369 🐦 Green-tailed Towhee

#372 🐦 Red Tanager

#390 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#394 🐦 Great Shearwater

#396 🐦 Great-tailed Grackle

#403 🐦 Ross's Gull

#404 🐦 Thick-billed Longspur

#407 🐦 Black Skimmer

#408 🐦 Rock Wren

#409 🐦 Berylline Hummingbird

#435 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#446 🐦 Garganey

#447 🐦 Red-breasted Sapsucker

#452 🐦 Brewer's Sparrow

#464 🐦 Least Tern

#467 🐦 Great Grey Owl

#472 🐦 Northern hawk-owl

#473 🐦 Ancient Murrelet

#475 🐦 Violet-green Swallow

#477 🐦 Royal Tern

#478 🐦 Sinaloa Wren

#481 🐦 Spotted Redshank

#486 🐦 Common Redshank

#491 🐦 Couch's Kingbird

#492 🐦 Gray Kingbird

#498 🐦 Cassin's Kingbird

#500 🐦 Southern Lapwing

#509 🐦 Plumbeous Vireo