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New Jersey wildlife

488 species in the New Jersey dex: 150 Common, 172 Uncommon, 144 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.

#006 🦌 North American Least Shrew

#023 🦌 Eastern Small-footed Myotis

#044 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#051 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#054 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#066 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#075 🐦 Swan Goose

#151 🐦 European Goldfinch

#233 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#268 🐦 California Gull

#325 🐦 Hudsonian Whimbrel

#330 🐦 Cockatiel

#342 🐦 Harris's Hawk

#425 🐦 Allen's Hummingbird

#427 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#471 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#481 🐦 African Collared Dove

#524 🐦 Yellow-green Vireo

#531 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#559 🦎 Wood turtle

#579 🦎 Pine Snake

#585 🐸 New Jersey Chorus Frog

Rare

144

#001 🦌 North American Hoary Bat

#005 🦌 Star-nosed Mole

#008 🦌 Big Brown Bat

#011 🦌 Southern Flying Squirrel

#013 🦌 Silver-haired Bat

#021 🦌 Woodland vole

#022 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#024 🦌 Little Brown Myotis

#028 🦌 North American Deermouse

#034 🦌 Cinereus Shrew

#043 🐦 Common Redpoll

#048 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#056 🐦 Little Auk

#061 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#063 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#070 🐦 Anhinga

#071 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#072 🐦 Greylag Goose

#073 🐦 Pink-footed Goose

#076 🐦 Ross's Goose

#081 🐦 Golden Eagle

#084 🐦 Black-chinned Hummingbird

#095 🐦 Tufted Duck

#099 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#101 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#102 🐦 Ruffed Grouse

#108 🐦 Barnacle Goose

#109 🐦 Snowy Owl

#114 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#117 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#120 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#122 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#124 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#130 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#132 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#140 🐦 Ruff

#143 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#147 🐦 Southern Caracara

#153 🐦 Bicknell's Thrush

#156 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#158 🐦 Henslow's Sparrow

#159 🐦 Black Guillemot

#167 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#171 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#175 🐦 Sedge Wren

#181 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#184 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#190 🐦 Yellow Rail

#192 🐦 Black swan

#193 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#199 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#210 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#212 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#213 🐦 Western Flycatcher

#214 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#222 🐦 Brewer's Blackbird

#223 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#228 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird

#236 🐦 Pacific Loon

#239 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#240 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#250 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#251 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#254 🐦 Little Gull

#258 🐦 Bullock's Oriole

#261 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#265 🐦 Northern Shrike

#274 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#283 🐦 Franklin's gull

#286 🐦 Swainson's Warbler

#287 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#288 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#293 🐦 Red Crossbill

#294 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#307 🐦 Budgerigar · introduced

#317 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#318 🐦 Wood Stork

#319 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#322 🐦 Monk Parakeet · introduced

#327 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#337 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#351 🐦 Painted Bunting

#354 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#355 🐦 American White Pelican

#358 🐦 Cave Swallow

#365 🐦 Red Phalarope

#366 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#367 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#375 🐦 Western Tanager

#378 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#380 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#383 🐦 American Golden Plover

#388 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#395 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#404 🐦 Vermilion Flycatcher

#408 🐦 King Rail

#414 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#419 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#422 🐦 Calliope Hummingbird

#424 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#439 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#447 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#454 🐦 Brown-headed Nuthatch

#456 🐦 King Eider

#466 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#474 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#475 🐦 Roseate Tern

#478 🐦 Arctic Tern

#480 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#484 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#487 🐦 Brown Booby

#495 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#508 🐦 Gray Kingbird

#509 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#511 🐦 Fork-tailed Flycatcher

#513 🐦 Western Kingbird

#515 🐦 American Barn Owl

#516 🐦 Common Murre

#517 🐦 Thick-billed Murre

#518 🐦 Northern Lapwing

#519 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#522 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#528 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#530 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#532 🐦 White-winged Dove

#537 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#539 🦎 Copperhead

#541 🐸 Marbled Salamander

#548 🦎 Spotted Turtle

#550 🦎 Timber rattlesnake

#551 🐸 Northern Dusky Salamander

#553 🐸 Pine Barrens Treefrog

#558 🐸 Long-tailed Salamander

#560 🦎 Common map turtle

#562 🦎 Eastern Hognose Snake

#564 🦎 Common Kingsnake

#573 🦎 Diamondback Terrapin

#577 🐸 Cuban Treefrog · introduced

#583 🦎 Italian Wall Lizard · introduced

#586 🦎 River Cooter

#589 🐸 Eastern Spadefoot

#591 🦎 Ground Skink

#594 🦎 Redbelly Snake

#596 🦎 Eastern Ribbonsnake

Uncommon

172

#002 🦌 Northern Short-tailed Shrew

#009 🦌 North American porcupine

#010 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#014 🦌 Red Bat

#015 🦌 North American River Otter

#019 🦌 Striped Skunk

#020 🦌 Meadow vole

#026 🦌 Muskrat

#027 🦌 White-footed Mouse

#031 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#032 🦌 Eastern Mole

#037 🦌 Red Squirrel

#040 🦌 Gray Fox

#041 🦌 American Black Bear

#046 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#053 🐦 Razorbill

#059 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#060 🐦 Saltmarsh Sparrow

#062 🐦 Seaside Sparrow

#074 🐦 Snow Goose

#077 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#078 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#079 🐦 Eastern Whip-poor-will

#088 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#089 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#092 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#093 🐦 Redhead

#096 🐦 Greater scaup

#097 🐦 Canvasback

#103 🐦 American Bittern

#107 🐦 Cackling Goose

#110 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#111 🐦 Cattle Egret

#113 🐦 Common goldeneye

#118 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#119 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#131 🐦 Red Knot

#133 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#134 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#135 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#136 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#137 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#148 🐦 Canada Warbler

#149 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#154 🐦 Veery

#157 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#160 🐦 Brown Creeper

#162 🐦 Piping Plover

#166 🐦 Black Tern

#169 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#170 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#174 🐦 Marsh Wren

#176 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#177 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#178 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#188 🐦 Common Raven

#194 🐦 Tundra Swan

#200 🐦 Bobolink

#204 🐦 Little blue heron

#209 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#216 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#217 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#218 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher

#219 🐦 Horned Lark

#220 🐦 White Ibis

#221 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#230 🐦 American Coot

#231 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#232 🐦 Common Moorhen

#237 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#238 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#243 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#247 🐦 Purple Finch

#249 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#253 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#255 🐦 Caspian Tern

#257 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#260 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#271 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#272 🐦 Iceland Gull

#278 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#279 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#280 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#284 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#285 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#296 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#299 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#301 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker

#302 🐦 Black Scoter

#303 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#305 🐦 Surf Scoter

#306 🐦 Wild Turkey

#309 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#316 🐦 Northern Gannet

#326 🐦 Whimbrel

#328 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#329 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#343 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#344 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#348 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#350 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#356 🐦 Brown Pelican

#359 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#364 🐦 Great Cormorant

#368 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#369 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#377 🐦 Summer Tanager

#379 🐦 Snow Bunting

#385 🐦 Grey Plover

#386 🐦 Horned Grebe

#387 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#389 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#394 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#396 🐦 Sora

#398 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#407 🐦 Clapper Rail

#409 🐦 Virginia Rail

#410 🐦 American Avocet

#413 🐦 Sand Martin

#415 🐦 Black Skimmer

#420 🐦 American Woodcock

#429 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#430 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#431 🐦 Cerulean Warbler

#432 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#434 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#435 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#436 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#438 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#441 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#445 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#446 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#448 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#455 🐦 Common Eider

#459 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#461 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#462 🐦 Pine Siskin

#464 🐦 Dickcissel

#469 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#473 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#477 🐦 Common Tern

#479 🐦 Least Tern

#482 🐦 Barred owl

#483 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#494 🐦 Royal Tern

#502 🐦 Willet

#503 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#505 🐦 Winter Wren

#520 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#523 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#529 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#536 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#538 🐸 Northern Cricket Frog

#540 🐸 Spotted Salamander

#545 🦎 Common Wormsnake

#549 🦎 Eastern Racer

#552 🦎 Ringneck Snake

#554 🐸 Cope's Gray Treefrog

#555 🐸 Green Treefrog

#557 🐸 Northern Two-lined Salamander

#561 🐸 Four-toed Salamander

#563 🦎 Eastern Mud Turtle

#565 🦎 Eastern Milksnake

#568 🐸 Mid-Atlantic Coast Leopard Frog

#569 🐸 Pickerel Frog

#572 🐸 Carpenter Frog

#576 🦎 Rough Greensnake

#580 🦎 Five-lined Skink

#582 🐸 Northern Slimy Salamander

#588 🐸 Red Salamander

#592 🦎 Common Musk Turtle

#593 🦎 Brown Snake

Common

150

#003 🦌 Coyote

#004 🦌 American beaver

#007 🦌 Virginia opossum

#016 🦌 Bobcat

#017 🦌 Woodchuck

#025 🦌 White-tailed deer

#029 🦌 Harbor Seal

#030 🦌 Raccoon

#033 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#035 🦌 Eastern Cottontail

#036 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#042 🦌 Red Fox

#045 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#050 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#052 🐦 Wood Duck

#064 🐦 Northern Pintail

#067 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#068 🐦 Mallard

#069 🐦 American Black Duck

#085 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#086 🐦 Great Egret

#087 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#094 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#098 🐦 Tufted Titmouse

#100 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#105 🐦 Brent Goose

#106 🐦 Canada goose

#112 🐦 Bufflehead

#116 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#121 🐦 Green Heron

#128 🐦 Sanderling

#129 🐦 Dunlin

#139 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#141 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#150 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#152 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#155 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#161 🐦 Chimney Swift

#163 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#164 🐦 Killdeer

#173 🐦 Hen Harrier

#179 🐦 Northern Flicker

#182 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#185 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#186 🐦 Black Vulture

#187 🐦 American Crow

#189 🐦 Fish Crow

#191 🐦 Blue Jay

#196 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#201 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#202 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#203 🐦 Gray Catbird

#208 🐦 Snowy egret

#224 🐦 Merlin

#225 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#226 🐦 American Kestrel

#235 🐦 Common Loon

#242 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#245 🐦 American Oystercatcher

#246 🐦 House Finch

#248 🐦 Bald Eagle

#252 🐦 Barn Swallow

#256 🐦 Wood Thrush

#259 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#264 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#270 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#275 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#276 🐦 American Herring Gull

#281 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#282 🐦 Laughing Gull

#292 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#295 🐦 American Wigeon

#297 🐦 Gadwall

#298 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#300 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#308 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#310 🐦 Song Sparrow

#311 🐦 Goosander

#312 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#313 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#314 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#315 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#320 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#339 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#341 🐦 Osprey

#345 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#347 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#352 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#362 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#373 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#376 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#381 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#390 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#391 🐦 Carolina Chickadee

#393 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#397 🐦 Purple Martin

#405 🐦 Boat-tailed Grackle

#406 🐦 Common Grackle

#411 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#412 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#418 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#421 🐦 Ovenbird

#428 🐦 Northern Parula

#433 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#440 🐦 Palm Warbler

#442 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#443 🐦 Pine Warbler

#444 🐦 American Redstart

#450 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#452 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#453 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#457 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#463 🐦 American Goldfinch

#467 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#468 🐦 Field Sparrow

#470 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#476 🐦 Forster's Tern

#485 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#488 🐦 Tree Swallow

#496 🐦 Carolina Wren

#497 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#498 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#500 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#504 🐦 House Wren

#506 🐦 American Robin

#512 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#525 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#526 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#527 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#533 🐦 Mourning Dove

#534 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#542 🐸 American Toad

#543 🐸 Fowler's Toad

#546 🦎 Common snapping turtle

#547 🦎 Painted Turtle

#556 🐸 Gray Treefrog

#566 🐸 American Bullfrog

#567 🐸 Green Frog

#570 🐸 Southern Leopard Frog

#571 🐸 Wood Frog

#574 🦎 Northern Water Snake

#575 🐸 Eastern Newt

#578 🦎 Eastern Rat Snake

#581 🐸 Redback Salamander

#584 🐸 Spring Peeper

#587 🦎 American Red-bellied Turtle

#590 🦎 Fence Lizard

#595 🦎 Common Box Turtle

#597 🦎 Common Garter Snake

#598 🦎 Pond Slider

Vagrants

100

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

#047 🐦 Western Grebe

#049 🐦 Rosy-faced Lovebird

#055 🐦 Red-legged Partridge

#057 🐦 Egyptian Goose · introduced

#058 🐦 Red-lored Amazon · introduced

#065 🐦 White-cheeked Pintail

#080 🐦 Common Swift

#082 🐦 Limpkin

#083 🐦 Mitred parakeet · introduced

#090 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#091 🐦 Burrowing Owl

#104 🐦 Long-billed Murrelet

#115 🐦 Zone-tailed Hawk

#123 🐦 Lark Bunting

#125 🐦 Chestnut-collared longspur

#126 🐦 Smith's Longspur

#127 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#138 🐦 Little Stint

#142 🐦 Red-necked stint

#144 🐦 California Quail

#145 🐦 Ringed Teal

#165 🐦 Whiskered Tern · introduced

#168 🐦 Lesser Nighthawk

#172 🐦 Golden Pheasant

#180 🐦 Green Violetear

#183 🐦 Common Ground-Dove

#195 🐦 Whooper Swan

#197 🐦 Broad-billed Hummingbird

#198 🐦 Black Swift

#205 🐦 Little Egret

#206 🐦 Western reef heron

#207 🐦 Reddish Egret

#211 🐦 White-tailed Kite

#215 🐦 Hammond's Flycatcher

#227 🐦 Atlantic Puffin

#229 🐦 Common Chaffinch

#234 🐦 Black-throated Diver

#241 🐦 MacGillivray's Warbler

#244 🐦 Common Crane

#262 🐦 Least Bittern

#263 🐦 Varied Thrush

#266 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike

#267 🐦 Herring Gull

#269 🐦 Mew Gull

#273 🐦 Heermann's Gull

#277 🐦 Vega Gull

#289 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#290 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#291 🐦 Scaly-breasted Munia · introduced

#304 🐦 Common Scoter

#321 🐦 Sulphur-bellied flycatcher

#323 🐦 Nanday parakeet · introduced

#324 🐦 Long-billed Curlew

#332 🐦 Band-rumped storm-petrel

#333 🐦 Leach's Storm Petrel

#334 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#335 🐦 Bridled Tern

#336 🐦 Sooty Tern

#338 🐦 Sage Thrasher

#340 🐦 Ivory Gull

#346 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow · introduced

#349 🐦 Lazuli Bunting

#353 🐦 Band-tailed Pigeon

#357 🐦 Grey Partridge · introduced

#360 🐦 Red-billed Tropicbird

#361 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#363 🐦 Neotropic cormorant

#370 🐦 Black-headed Grosbeak

#371 🐦 Pine Grosbeak

#372 🐦 Green-tailed Towhee

#374 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#382 🐦 European Golden Plover

#384 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#392 🐦 Boreal Chickadee

#399 🐦 Black-capped Petrel · location protected

#402 🐦 Audubon's Shearwater

#416 🐦 Rock Wren

#417 🐦 Black Phoebe

#423 🐦 Broad-tailed Hummingbird

#426 🐦 Atlantic Canary

#437 🐦 Kirtland's Warbler

#449 🐦 Mountain Bluebird

#451 🐦 Saffron Finch

#458 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#460 🐦 Garganey

#465 🐦 Brewer's Sparrow

#472 🐦 South Polar Skua

#486 🐦 Masked Booby

#489 🐦 Violet-green Swallow

#490 🐦 Ruddy Shelduck

#491 🐦 Zebra Finch

#492 🐦 Red-flanked Bluetail

#493 🐦 Elegant Tern

#499 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#501 🐦 Common Greenshank

#507 🐦 Greater Prairie Chicken

#510 🐦 Tropical Kingbird

#514 🐦 Cassin's Kingbird

#521 🐦 Black-whiskered Vireo

#535 🐦 Golden-crowned Sparrow

Marine

Seen offshore.

#012 🦌 Short-finned Pilot whale

#018 🦌 Humpback Whale

#038 🦌 Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin

#039 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#146 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#331 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#400 🐦 Great Shearwater

#401 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#403 🐦 Manx Shearwater

#544 🦎 Loggerhead