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New Zealand wildlife

305 species in the New Zealand dex: 100 Common, 91 Uncommon, 98 Rare, 16 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.

#005 🦌 Arnoux's beaked whale

#007 🦌 Wolf

#065 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#070 🐦 Red-legged Partridge · introduced

#071 🐦 Australian King-parrot

#095 🐦 Pacific Swift

#128 🐦 Double-Banded Plover

#176 🐦 Eastern Rockhopper Penguin

#179 🐦 Royal Penguin

#186 🐦 Lesser frigatebird

#213 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#231 🐦 Auckland Rail

#256 🐦 Cockatiel

#370 🐦 Zebra Finch

#408 🦎 Yellow-lipped sea krait

#409 🦎 Common sea krait

Rare

#002 🦌 Subantarctic fur seal

#013 🦌 Long-tailed Wattled Bat

#017 🦌 Horse · introduced

#024 🦌 Himalayan Tahr

#030 🦌 Tammar Wallaby

#041 🦌 European Polecat · introduced

#042 🦌 New Zealand Lesser Short-tailed Bat

#043 🦌 Red-necked Wallaby

#044 🦌 White-tailed deer · introduced

#054 🦌 Chamois · introduced

#055 🦌 Sambar

#066 🐦 Mandarin Duck · introduced

#067 🐦 Wood Duck · introduced

#069 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#073 🐦 Northern Pintail

#074 🐦 Auckland Teal

#075 🐦 Chestnut Teal

#078 🐦 Campbell Teal

#083 🐦 Black Noddy

#084 🐦 Brown Noddy

#086 🐦 Swan Goose · introduced

#089 🐦 King Penguin · introduced

#097 🐦 Ardea modesta

#111 🐦 Sanderling

#113 🐦 Broad-billed Sandpiper

#120 🐦 Long-toed Stint

#122 🐦 Great Knot

#129 🐦 Greater Sand Plover

#130 🐦 New Zealand plover

#132 🐦 Oriental Plover

#133 🐦 Maned duck

#135 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#136 🐦 White-winged Tern

#142 🐦 Golden Pheasant · introduced

#144 🐦 Subantarctic Snipe

#145 🐦 Snares Snipe

#146 🐦 Chatham Snipe

#151 🐦 Pallid cuckoo

#153 🐦 Chatham Parakeet

#156 🐦 Antipodes Parakeet

#159 🐦 Laughing Kookaburra

#161 🐦 Plumed Whistling-duck

#166 🐦 Emu

#174 🐦 Galah · introduced

#175 🐦 Western rockhopper penguin

#187 🐦 Great Frigatebird

#194 🐦 Black-tailed Nativehen

#199 🐦 Australian Tern

#204 🐦 White tern

#216 🐦 White-throated Needletail

#221 🐦 Larus bulleri

#228 🐦 Bounty Shag

#233 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit · introduced

#235 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#239 🐦 Fernbird

#241 🐦 Budgerigar

#243 🐦 Black Kite

#252 🐦 Little Curlew

#261 🐦 Sooty Tern

#272 🐦 South Georgia Diving-Petrel

#276 🐦 Tree martin

#279 🐦 Black Robin

#281 🐦 Red-tailed Tropicbird

#294 🐦 Crimson Rosella · introduced

#298 🐦 Grey Plover

#306 🐦 Purple Swamphen

#316 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet · introduced

#345 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#349 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#350 🐦 South Polar Skua · introduced

#352 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#353 🐦 Common Tern

#354 🐦 Arctic Tern · introduced

#361 🐦 Kakapo

#363 🐦 Masked Booby

#364 🐦 Brown Booby

#365 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#368 🐦 Australian Shelduck

#386 🐦 Coconut Lorikeet

#388 🐦 Grey-tailed Tattler

#389 🐦 Wandering Tattler

#390 🐦 Common Greenshank

#391 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#394 🐦 Eastern Barn Owl

#398 🐦 Terek Sandpiper

#403 🦎 Common House Gecko

#406 🦎 Pelagic Sea Snake

#414 🐸 Southern brown tree frog

#418 🦎 Green Tree Gecko

#422 🦎 Wellington Green Gecko

#424 🦎 Starry Tree Gecko

#433 🦎 Grand Skink

#435 🦎 Chevron Skink

#446 🦎 Macgregor's Skink

#450 🦎 Chathams Skink

#451 🦎 Southern Skink

#459 🦎 Egg-laying Skink

#460 🦎 Nevis Skink

Uncommon

#006 🦌 Domesticated cattle · introduced

#012 🦌 Red deer · introduced

#014 🦌 Fallow Deer

#025 🦌 Leopard Seal

#029 🦌 European Hare · introduced

#039 🦌 Ermine · introduced

#040 🦌 Least Weasel · introduced

#047 🦌 Red Sheep · introduced

#056 🦌 Wild Boar · introduced

#076 🐦 Brown Teal

#082 🐦 Grey Noddy

#090 🐦 Southern Brown Kiwi

#092 🐦 North Island Brown Kiwi

#093 🐦 Little Spotted Kiwi

#094 🐦 Okarito Kiwi

#096 🐦 Great Egret

#099 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#102 🐦 Little Owl · introduced

#105 🐦 Australasian Bittern

#108 🐦 Sulphur-crested Cockatoo · introduced

#109 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#110 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#112 🐦 Red Knot

#114 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#116 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#119 🐦 Red-necked stint

#123 🐦 South Island Kokako

#127 🐦 Cape Barren Goose

#149 🐦 Rook · introduced

#152 🐦 Yellow-crowned Parakeet

#154 🐦 Malherbe's Parakeet

#158 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#167 🐦 Little Egret

#170 🐦 Pacific Reef Heron

#172 🐦 Cirl Bunting · introduced

#177 🐦 Fiordland Penguin

#178 🐦 Snares Penguin

#180 🐦 Erect-crested Penguin

#196 🐦 Buff-banded Rail

#197 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#200 🐦 Chatham Gerygone

#206 🐦 Chatham Oystercatcher

#211 🐦 Chatham Pigeon

#215 🐦 Black Stilt

#220 🐦 Blue Duck

#223 🐦 Campbell Shag

#224 🐦 Rough-faced Shag

#226 🐦 Auckland Shag

#227 🐦 Chatham Shag

#238 🐦 Yellow-eyed Penguin

#240 🐦 Wild Turkey · introduced

#245 🐦 Yellowhead

#250 🐦 Stitchbird

#251 🐦 Far Eastern Curlew

#253 🐦 Whimbrel

#254 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl · introduced

#255 🐦 Rufous Night Heron

#270 🐦 Indian Peafowl · introduced

#273 🐦 Common Diving Petrel

#283 🐦 Pitt Shag

#296 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#297 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#299 🐦 Great Crested Grebe · introduced

#300 🐦 Hoary-headed Grebe

#304 🐦 South Island Takahe

#307 🐦 Baillon's Crake

#308 🐦 Spotless Crake

#348 🐦 Brown skua

#351 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#357 🐦 Antarctic Tern

#358 🐦 Little Tern

#359 🐦 Fairy tern

#360 🐦 African Collared Dove

#366 🐦 Brown Quail

#367 🐦 Australasian Grebe

#382 🐦 Shore Dotterel

#395 🐦 Long-tailed Koel

#397 🐦 New Zealand Rockwren

#401 🦎 Pacific Gecko

#404 🦎 Duvaucel's Gecko

#411 🐸 Stephen Island Frog

#412 🐸 Hochstetter's Frog

#416 🦎 Forest Gecko

#432 🦎 Green Skink

#436 🦎 Oligosoma inconspicuum

#448 🦎 Moco Skink

#454 🦎 Otago Skink

#456 🦎 Eyres skink

#464 🦎 Brown Skink

#468 🦎 Jewelled Gecko

#471 🦎 Pond Slider · introduced

Common

100

#001 🦌 Australasian Fur Seal

#009 🦌 Domestic goat · introduced

#018 🦌 West European Hedgehog · introduced

#020 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#037 🦌 Southern Elephant Seal · introduced

#038 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#046 🦌 European Rabbit · introduced

#049 🦌 New Zealand Sea Lion

#052 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#053 🦌 Black Rat · introduced

#058 🦌 Common Brushtail

#062 🐦 Common Redpoll · introduced

#063 🐦 Rifleman

#064 🐦 Common myna · introduced

#068 🐦 Eurasian Skylark · introduced

#072 🐦 Wrybill

#077 🐦 Grey Teal

#079 🐦 Mallard · introduced

#080 🐦 Pacific Black Duck

#085 🐦 Greylag Goose · introduced

#087 🐦 New Zealand Bellbird

#088 🐦 New Zealand Pipit

#104 🐦 New Zealand Scaup

#106 🐦 Canada goose · introduced

#124 🐦 California Quail · introduced

#126 🐦 European Goldfinch · introduced

#134 🐦 Black-fronted Tern

#138 🐦 European greenfinch

#139 🐦 Black-billed Gull

#140 🐦 Silver Gull

#141 🐦 Shining Bronze Cuckoo

#143 🐦 Swamp Harrier

#147 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#155 🐦 Red-fronted Parakeet

#157 🐦 Black swan · introduced

#169 🐦 White-faced Heron

#173 🐦 Yellowhammer · introduced

#181 🐦 Little Penguin

#184 🐦 New Zealand Falcon

#185 🐦 Pipipi

#190 🐦 Common Chaffinch · introduced

#191 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#195 🐦 Weka

#201 🐦 Grey Gerygone

#205 🐦 Australian Magpie · introduced

#207 🐦 South Island Oystercatcher

#209 🐦 Variable Oystercatcher

#212 🐦 New Zealand Pigeon

#214 🐦 White-headed Stilt

#218 🐦 Welcome Swallow

#219 🐦 Caspian Tern

#222 🐦 Kelp Gull

#225 🐦 Stewart Island Shag

#234 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#242 🐦 Little Pied Cormorant

#244 🐦 Whitehead

#246 🐦 Australasian Gannet

#247 🐦 New Zealand Kaka

#248 🐦 Kea

#249 🐦 Morepork

#269 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#277 🐦 New Zealand Robin

#278 🐦 Tomtit

#282 🐦 Great Cormorant

#284 🐦 Spotted Shag

#285 🐦 Little Black Cormorant

#286 🐦 Pied Cormorant

#289 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#290 🐦 South Island Saddleback

#293 🐦 Royal spoonbill

#295 🐦 Eastern Rosella · introduced

#301 🐦 New Zealand Grebe

#303 🐦 New Zealand Fernbird

#305 🐦 Australasian Swamphen

#313 🐦 Tui

#314 🐦 Dunnock · introduced

#343 🐦 New Zealand Fantail

#346 🐦 Australasian Shoveler

#347 🐦 Spotted Dove

#355 🐦 White-fronted Tern

#362 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#369 🐦 Paradise Shelduck

#384 🐦 Sacred Kingfisher

#392 🐦 Common Blackbird · introduced

#393 🐦 Song Thrush · introduced

#396 🐦 Masked Lapwing

#399 🐦 Silvereye

#407 🦎 Grass Skink

#427 🦎 Copper Skink

#441 🦎 Northern Spotted Skink

#445 🦎 McCann’s Skink

#453 🦎 Gray's Ornate Skink

#455 🦎 Common New Zealand skink

#457 🦎 Shore Skink

#465 🐸 Green and Golden Bell Frog · introduced

#466 🐸 Warty Bell Frog · introduced

#467 🦎 Tuatara

#472 🦎 Canterbury Gecko

#473 🦎 Goldstripe Gecko

#474 🦎 Raukawa Gecko

Vagrants

100

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

#003 🦌 Eden's whale

#008 🦌 Pygmy right whale

#010 🦌 Domesticated Guinea Pig

#016 🦌 Ass

#021 🦌 Pygmy Killer Whale

#023 🦌 Risso's Dolphin

#026 🦌 Southern Bottlenose Whale

#028 🦌 Cape Hare

#031 🦌 Eastern Grey Kangaroo

#032 🦌 Parma Wallaby

#034 🦌 Gray's Beaked Whale

#035 🦌 True's beaked whale

#036 🦌 Spade-toothed Whale

#048 🦌 Koala

#051 🦌 Polynesian Rat

#057 🦌 Shepherd's beaked whale

#060 🦌 Swamp wallaby

#061 🦌 Cuvier's Beaked Whale

#081 🐦 Australasian Darter

#091 🐦 Great Spotted Kiwi

#098 🐦 White-necked Heron

#100 🐦 Dusky Woodswallow

#101 🐦 Masked Woodswallow

#103 🐦 Hardhead

#107 🐦 Eastern Cattle Egret

#115 🐦 Western Sandpiper · introduced

#117 🐦 Little Stint

#118 🐦 Ruff

#121 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper · introduced

#125 🐦 Streaked Shearwater

#131 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#137 🐦 Black Tern · introduced

#148 🐦 Black-Faced Cuckooshrike

#150 🐦 Oriental Cuckoo

#168 🐦 Intermediate egret

#171 🐦 Black-fronted Dotterel

#182 🐦 Oriental dollarbird

#183 🐦 Nankeen Kestrel

#193 🐦 Latham's Snipe

#202 🐦 Brown Gerygone

#203 🐦 Magpie-lark

#208 🐦 Pied Oystercatcher

#217 🐦 Pacific Swallow

#229 🐦 Foveaux Shag

#230 🐦 Laughing Gull · introduced

#232 🐦 Asian Dowitcher

#259 🐦 Crested Pigeon

#260 🐦 Bridled Tern

#262 🐦 Spectacled Tern

#274 🐦 Australian Pelican

#275 🐦 Fairy Martin

#280 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#287 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#288 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope · introduced

#291 🐦 Sooty Albatross

#302 🐦 Superb Parrot

#315 🐦 Tahiti petrel

#318 🐦 Collared Petrel

#321 🐦 Herald Petrel

#332 🐦 Rose-crowned Fruit Dove

#341 🐦 Red-vented bulbul

#342 🐦 Grey Fantail

#344 🐦 Channel-Billed Cuckoo

#356 🐦 Black-naped Tern

#380 🐦 White-capped albatross

#381 🐦 Greater Crested Tern

#383 🐦 Straw-necked Ibis

#385 🐦 Scaly-breasted Lorikeet

#387 🐦 Red-collared Lorikeet

#405 🦎 Tohu gecko

#410 🐸 Archey's Frog

#415 🦎 Hura Te Ao Gecko

#417 🦎 Black-eyed Gecko

#419 🦎 Aupouri Gecko

#420 🦎 Gray's Tree Gecko

#421 🦎 Northern Tree Gecko

#423 🦎 Rough Gecko

#425 🦎 West Coast Green Gecko

#426 🦎 Fiordland Skink

#428 🦎 Robust Skink

#429 🦎 Eastern Speckled Skink

#430 🦎 Awakopaka Skink

#431 🦎 Burgan Skink

#434 🦎 Hardy’s Skink

#437 🦎 Speckled Skink

#438 🦎 Barrier Skink

#439 🦎 Oligosoma kahurangi

#440 🦎 Whirinaki Skink

#442 🦎 Slight Skink

#443 🦎 Canterbury spotted skink

#444 🦎 Long-toed Skink

#447 🦎 Small-scaled Skink

#449 🦎 Newman’s Speckled Skink

#452 🦎 Marbled Skink

#458 🦎 Small-eared Skink

#461 🦎 Towns’ Skink

#462 🦎 Scree Skink

#463 🦎 Whitaker's New Zealand Skink

#469 🦎 Northern Striped Gecko

#470 🦎 Striped Gecko

Marine

Seen offshore.

#004 🦌 Blue whale · introduced

#011 🦌 Hector's Dolphin

#015 🦌 Common Dolphin · introduced

#019 🦌 Southern right whale

#022 🦌 Long-finned pilot whale · introduced

#027 🦌 Dusky Dolphin

#033 🦌 Humpback Whale

#045 🦌 Killer Whale · introduced

#050 🦌 Sperm Whale

#059 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#160 🐦 Cape Petrel

#162 🐦 Antipodean Albatross

#163 🐦 Southern Royal Albatross

#164 🐦 Wandering albatross

#165 🐦 Northern Royal Albatross

#188 🐦 White-bellied Storm-petrel

#189 🐦 Black-bellied Storm-petrel

#192 🐦 Southern Fulmar

#198 🐦 Grey-Backed Storm Petrel

#210 🐦 Blue Petrel

#236 🐦 Southern Giant Petrel

#237 🐦 Northern Giant Petrel

#257 🐦 New Zealand Storm Petrel

#258 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#263 🐦 Slender-Billed Prion

#264 🐦 Fulmar Prion

#265 🐦 Antarctic Prion

#266 🐦 Salvin's Prion

#267 🐦 Fairy Prion

#268 🐦 Broad-billed Prion

#271 🐦 White-faced Storm-petrel

#292 🐦 Light-mantled Albatross

#309 🐦 White-chinned Petrel

#310 🐦 Grey Petrel

#311 🐦 Black Petrel

#312 🐦 Westland Petrel

#317 🐦 Chatham petrel

#319 🐦 White-Necked Petrel

#320 🐦 Cook's Petrel

#322 🐦 Mottled Petrel

#323 🐦 White-headed Petrel

#324 🐦 Gould's Petrel

#325 🐦 Great-winged Petrel

#326 🐦 Magenta Petrel

#327 🐦 Soft-plumaged Petrel

#328 🐦 Kermadec petrel

#329 🐦 Black-winged Petrel

#330 🐦 Pycroft's Petrel

#331 🐦 Providence Petrel

#333 🐦 Little Shearwater

#334 🐦 Buller's Shearwater

#335 🐦 Flesh-footed shearwater

#336 🐦 Fluttering Shearwater

#337 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#338 🐦 Hutton's Shearwater

#339 🐦 Wedge-tailed shearwater

#340 🐦 Short-Tailed Shearwater

#371 🐦 Buller's Albatross

#372 🐦 Indian yellow-nosed albatross

#373 🐦 Shy Albatross

#374 🐦 Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross

#375 🐦 Grey-Headed Albatross

#376 🐦 Chatham Albatross

#377 🐦 Campbell albatross

#378 🐦 Black-browed Albatross

#379 🐦 Salvin's Albatross

#400 🦎 Green Turtle

#402 🦎 Leatherback Sea Turtle

#413 🦎 Olive Ridley