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New Caledonia wildlife

122 species in the New Caledonia dex: 35 Common, 45 Uncommon, 36 Rare, 6 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.

#019 🦌 Javan Rusa

#029 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#046 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#074 🐦 Nankeen Kestrel

#127 🐦 Grey Plover

#131 🐦 Spotless Crake

Rare

#018 🦌 Pacific Flying Fox

#040 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#043 🐦 Hardhead

#049 🐦 Common Emerald Dove · introduced

#065 🐦 Pacific Imperial-pigeon

#070 🐦 Blue-Faced Parrot-Finch

#075 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#076 🐦 Lesser frigatebird

#077 🐦 Great Frigatebird

#082 🐦 Dusky Moorhen

#084 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#085 🐦 Zebra Dove · introduced

#088 🐦 White tern

#091 🐦 Pacific Swallow

#096 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#098 🐦 New Caledonian Grassbird

#107 🐦 Whimbrel

#110 🐦 Bridled Tern

#113 🐦 Vanuatu Whistler

#119 🐦 Indian Peafowl · introduced

#120 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#121 🐦 Red-tailed Tropicbird

#122 🐦 Great Cormorant

#153 🐦 Roseate Tern · introduced

#156 🐦 Fairy tern

#158 🐦 Masked Booby

#161 🐦 Australasian Grebe

#166 🐦 Grey-tailed Tattler

#167 🐦 Wandering Tattler

#168 🐦 Eastern Barn Owl

#170 🐦 Masked Lapwing

#171 🐦 Forest White-eye

#177 🦎 Speckled Litter Skink

#183 🦎 Egg-eating Sea Snake

#190 🦎 Mourning Gecko

#192 🦎 Pelagic Gecko

Uncommon

#003 🦌 Wolf

#006 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#014 🦌 European Rabbit · introduced

#023 🦌 Wild Boar · introduced

#032 🐦 Grey Teal

#034 🐦 Pacific Black Duck

#036 🐦 Black Noddy

#037 🐦 Brown Noddy

#045 🐦 Fan-Tailed Cuckoo

#050 🐦 Pacific Emerald Dove

#053 🐦 Shining Bronze Cuckoo

#054 🐦 Swamp Harrier

#055 🐦 Southern Shrikebill

#057 🐦 Rock Dove

#061 🐦 New Caledonian Parakeet

#063 🐦 Cloven-feathered Dove

#066 🐦 New Caledonian Cuckooshrike

#067 🐦 White-faced Heron

#068 🐦 Pacific Reef Heron

#069 🐦 Red-throated Parrotfinch

#083 🐦 Buff-banded Rail

#089 🐦 Crow Honeyeater

#092 🐦 Welcome Swallow

#097 🐦 Chestnut-breasted Munia

#099 🐦 Wild Turkey

#100 🐦 Little Pied Cormorant

#104 🐦 Cardinal Myzomela

#108 🐦 Rufous Night Heron

#111 🐦 Sooty Tern

#117 🐦 Osprey

#123 🐦 Little Black Cormorant

#126 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#128 🐦 Australasian Swamphen

#140 🐦 Red-bellied Fruit-dove

#146 🐦 Red-vented bulbul · introduced

#154 🐦 Black-naped Tern

#159 🐦 Brown Booby

#160 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#163 🐦 Greater Crested Tern

#173 🐦 Sulphur White-eye

#175 🦎 Olive-brown seasnake

#182 🦎 Copper-Tailed Skink

#184 🦎 Green-Bellied Tree Skink

#186 🦎 Common House Gecko

#189 🦎 Common sea krait

Common

#005 🦌 Dugong

#028 🐦 Common myna · introduced

#030 🐦 White-rumped Swiftlet

#039 🐦 Striated Starling

#041 🐦 Artamus leucorhynchos

#052 🐦 Silver Gull

#056 🐦 Satin Swiftlet

#058 🐦 Metallic Pigeon

#059 🐦 Melanesian Cuckooshrike

#060 🐦 New Caledonian Crow

#064 🐦 Goliath Imperial Pigeon

#072 🐦 Common Waxbill

#073 🐦 Horned Parakeet

#086 🐦 Fan-Tailed Gerygone

#087 🐦 Barred Honeyeater

#090 🐦 Whistling Kite

#093 🐦 Long-Tailed Triller

#095 🐦 Grey-eared Honeyeater

#101 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flyrobin

#102 🐦 Melanesian Flycatcher

#103 🐦 New Caledonian Myzomela

#112 🐦 Melanesian Whistler

#114 🐦 Rufous Whistler

#118 🐦 House sparrow

#124 🐦 New Caledonian Friarbird

#147 🐦 Grey Fantail

#148 🐦 Streaked Fantail

#149 🐦 Kagu

#150 🐦 Spotted Dove

#164 🐦 Sacred Kingfisher

#165 🐦 Coconut Lorikeet

#172 🐦 Silvereye

#174 🐦 Green-backed White-eye

#187 🦎 Yellow-lipped sea krait

#194 🐸 Green and Golden Bell Frog

Vagrants

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

#002 🦌 Omura's Whale

#004 🦌 New Caledonia Wattled Bat

#010 🦌 Tropical bottlenose whale

#022 🦌 Rough-toothed dolphin

#026 🦌 Cuvier's Beaked Whale

#027 🐦 White-bellied Goshawk

#031 🐦 Uniform Swiftlet

#033 🐦 Mallard · introduced

#035 🐦 Grey Noddy

#038 🐦 Lesser Noddy

#042 🐦 White-breasted Woodswallow

#044 🐦 Striated Heron

#047 🐦 Sanderling

#048 🐦 Red-necked stint

#051 🐦 Greater Sand Plover

#062 🐦 Wandering albatross

#071 🐦 Beach Thick-knee

#078 🐦 White-bellied Storm-petrel

#079 🐦 New Caledonian Storm Petrel

#080 🐦 Black-bellied Storm-petrel

#081 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#094 🐦 Polynesian Triller

#105 🐦 Polynesian Storm-petrel

#106 🐦 Far Eastern Curlew

#109 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#115 🐦 Fairy Prion

#116 🐦 Eastern Osprey

#125 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#129 🐦 Purple Swamphen

#130 🐦 White-browed Crake

#134 🐦 White-Necked Petrel

#135 🐦 Herald Petrel

#137 🐦 Kermadec petrel

#139 🐦 Providence Petrel

#141 🐦 Tropical Shearwater

#142 🐦 Flesh-footed shearwater

#143 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#151 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#152 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#155 🐦 Little Tern

#157 🐦 Common Starling

#162 🐦 Black-browed Albatross

#169 🐦 Eastern Grass Owl

#176 🦎 Goro Gecko

#178 🦎 Common Litter Skink

#179 🦎 Strand Litter Skink

#181 🦎 New Caledonian Shore Skink

#188 🦎 Yellow-lipped Sea Snake

#191 🦎 Marble-Throated Skink

#193 🦎 Garnier's Skinks

#195 🦎 Knob-headed Giant Gecko

#196 🦎 Mount Humboldt Shiny Skink

#197 🦎 Southern Whiptailed Skink

Marine

Seen offshore.

#001 🦌 Minke Whale · introduced

#007 🦌 Pygmy Killer Whale

#008 🦌 Short-finned Pilot whale

#009 🦌 Risso's Dolphin

#011 🦌 Pygmy Sperm Whale

#012 🦌 Dwarf sperm whale

#013 🦌 Humpback Whale

#015 🦌 Melon-headed Whale

#016 🦌 Sperm Whale

#017 🦌 False Killer Whale · introduced

#020 🦌 Pantropical Spotted Dolphin

#021 🦌 Spinner Dolphin

#024 🦌 Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin

#025 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#132 🐦 Tahiti petrel

#133 🐦 Collared Petrel

#136 🐦 Gould's Petrel

#138 🐦 Black-winged Petrel

#144 🐦 Wedge-tailed shearwater

#145 🐦 Short-Tailed Shearwater

#180 🦎 Green Turtle

#185 🦎 Hawksbill turtle