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Niger wildlife

341 species in the Niger dex: 101 Common, 122 Uncommon, 103 Rare, 15 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.

#009 🦌 Tantalus Monkey

#052 🐦 Sennar Penduline Tit

#065 🐦 Black Crowned Crane

#069 🐦 Pharaoh Eagle-owl

#130 🐦 Little Grey Woodpecker

#190 🐦 Bronze-tailed Starling

#219 🐦 Singing Bush Lark

#232 🐦 Heuglin's Wheatear

#237 🐦 Neumann's Starling

#240 🐦 White-shouldered Black Tit

#244 🐦 Desert Sparrow

#245 🐦 White-fronted Black Chat

#278 🐦 Northern White-faced Owl

#309 🐦 Yellow-breasted Barbet

#332 🐦 Exclamatory Paradise Whydah

Rare

103

#004 🦌 African Arvicanthis

#005 🦌 Four-toed Hedgehog

#007 🦌 Red-flanked Duiker

#008 🦌 Grivet

#010 🦌 African Straw-colored Fruit Bat

#013 🦌 Wildcat

#014 🦌 Dorcas Gazelle

#021 🦌 Crested Porcupine

#028 🦌 Aardvark

#040 🐦 Shikra

#041 🐦 Great Reed Warbler

#042 🐦 Greater Swamp Warbler

#049 🐦 Desert Lark

#050 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#053 🐦 Tawny Pipit

#054 🐦 Tree pipit

#056 🐦 Common Swift

#066 🐦 Senegal Batis

#070 🐦 Greyish Eagle-owl

#073 🐦 Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill

#076 🐦 Grasshopper Buzzard

#077 🐦 Red-necked Buzzard

#079 🐦 Greater Short-toed Lark

#083 🐦 Fine-spotted Woodpecker

#084 🐦 Coqui Francolin

#090 🐦 Scissor-tailed Kite

#092 🐦 White-winged Tern

#093 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#099 🐦 Beaudouin's Snake Eagle

#100 🐦 Western Banded Snake Eagle

#104 🐦 Pallid Harrier

#107 🐦 Short-winged Cisticola

#109 🐦 Great Spotted Cuckoo

#110 🐦 Jacobin Cuckoo

#111 🐦 Levaillant's Cuckoo

#118 🐦 Fan-tailed Raven

#124 🐦 African Cuckoo

#125 🐦 Sardinian Warbler

#126 🐦 Cream-Colored Courser

#128 🐦 Common house martin

#138 🐦 Saddle-billed Stork

#139 🐦 Yellow-bellied Eremomela

#140 🐦 Senegal Eremomela

#144 🐦 Lavender waxbill

#145 🐦 Black-rumped waxbill

#148 🐦 Northern Red Bishop

#149 🐦 White-bellied Bustard

#150 🐦 Fox Kestrel

#154 🐦 African Hobby

#157 🐦 Eurasian Hobby

#159 🐦 European Pied Flycatcher

#160 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#162 🐦 Common snipe

#163 🐦 Lesser Moorhen

#166 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#170 🐦 Rüppell's Vulture

#171 🐦 Grey-headed Kingfisher

#178 🐦 Melodious Warbler

#180 🐦 Red-chested Swallow

#192 🐦 Lesser Blue-eared Starling

#200 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#201 🐦 Black-bellied Bustard

#204 🐦 Savile's Bustard

#211 🐦 Northern Carmine Bee-eater

#216 🐦 Lesser Jacana

#221 🐦 White Wagtail

#224 🐦 Violet Turaco

#227 🐦 Egyptian Vulture

#234 🐦 White-crowned Wheatear

#235 🐦 Black Wheatear

#238 🐦 African Scops Owl

#239 🐦 Osprey

#246 🐦 European Honey Buzzard

#249 🐦 Western Bonelli's Warbler

#251 🐦 Wood Warbler

#256 🐦 Heuglin's Masked Weaver

#260 🐦 Grey Plover

#262 🐦 African Finfoot

#267 🐦 Allen's Gallinule

#269 🐦 River Prinia

#271 🐦 Grey-rumped Swallow

#275 🐦 Four-banded Sandgrouse

#276 🐦 Spotted Sandgrouse

#283 🐦 Black Scimitarbill

#295 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#298 🐦 Eurasian Blackcap

#299 🐦 Garden Warbler

#301 🐦 Spectacled Warbler

#302 🐦 Orphean Warbler

#305 🐦 Mocking Cliff Chat

#308 🐦 Lappet-faced Vulture

#311 🐦 Bruce's Green Pigeon

#312 🐦 White-headed Vulture

#313 🐦 Spotted Redshank

#318 🐦 Common Redshank

#319 🐦 Fulvous Babbler

#322 🐦 Blue-spotted Wood Dove

#335 🐦 African Yellow White-eye

#342 🦎 Tassili Agama

#345 🦎 Sahara Sand Viper

#350 🦎 Southern Long-tailed Lizard

#354 🦎 Helmeted Turtle

#363 🦎 Algerian Sand Gecko

Uncommon

122

#002 🦌 Hartebeest

#006 🦌 Side-striped Jackal

#011 🦌 Patas Monkey

#017 🦌 Giraffe

#019 🦌 Common Hippopotamus

#022 🦌 Waterbuck

#024 🦌 African elephant

#026 🦌 Natal Mastomys

#029 🦌 Oribi

#030 🦌 Lion

#034 🦌 Rock Hyrax

#036 🦌 Common Reedbuck

#043 🐦 Sedge Warbler

#047 🐦 Cut-throat Finch

#051 🐦 African Darter

#057 🐦 White-rumped Swift

#058 🐦 Tawny Eagle

#061 🐦 Goliath Heron

#072 🐦 Trumpeter Finch

#074 🐦 Yellow-billed Oxpecker

#075 🐦 Senegal Thick-knee

#080 🐦 Little Stint

#086 🐦 Black Scrub Robin

#088 🐦 Scarlet-chested Sunbird

#089 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#091 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#095 🐦 White stork

#096 🐦 Splendid Sunbird

#097 🐦 Copper Sunbird

#101 🐦 Brown Snake Eagle

#102 🐦 Short-toed Eagle

#105 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#106 🐦 Desert Cisticola

#108 🐦 Zitting Cisticola

#115 🐦 Purple Roller

#119 🐦 Brown-necked Raven

#120 🐦 Malachite Kingfisher

#122 🐦 White-rumped Seedeater

#131 🐦 African Grey Woodpecker

#136 🐦 Gosling's Bunting

#137 🐦 House Bunting

#143 🐦 Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin

#147 🐦 Yellow-crowned Bishop

#151 🐦 Grey Kestrel

#152 🐦 Lanner Falcon

#153 🐦 Red-necked Falcon

#155 🐦 Lesser Kestrel

#156 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#158 🐦 Common Kestrel

#165 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#167 🐦 Pearl-spotted Owlet

#168 🐦 Bush Petronia

#169 🐦 White-backed Vulture

#172 🐦 Woodland Kingfisher

#175 🐦 Booted Eagle

#176 🐦 Wahlberg's Eagle

#179 🐦 Ethiopian Swallow

#182 🐦 Wire-tailed Swallow

#183 🐦 Caspian Tern

#185 🐦 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler

#186 🐦 Lesser Honeyguide

#187 🐦 Lizard Buzzard

#195 🐦 Splendid Starling

#196 🐦 Yellow-crowned Gonolek

#197 🐦 Great Grey Shrike

#198 🐦 Woodchat Shrike

#199 🐦 Marabou Stork

#202 🐦 Long-crested Eagle

#205 🐦 Vieillot's Barbet

#206 🐦 Giant Kingfisher

#207 🐦 Dark Chanting-goshawk

#208 🐦 White-throated Bee-eater

#209 🐦 White-fronted Bee-eater

#210 🐦 Red-throated Bee-eater

#220 🐦 African Pied Wagtail

#223 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#225 🐦 Anteater Chat

#228 🐦 Brubru

#233 🐦 Isabelline Wheatear

#250 🐦 Common Chiffchaff

#252 🐦 Willow Warbler

#253 🐦 Spur-winged Goose

#254 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#258 🐦 Black-headed weaver

#259 🐦 Vitelline Masked Weaver

#263 🐦 Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird

#264 🐦 Senegal Parrot

#265 🐦 Martial Eagle

#266 🐦 African Harrier-hawk

#268 🐦 Purple Swamphen

#273 🐦 Double-spurred Francolin

#274 🐦 Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse

#277 🐦 Stone Partridge

#281 🐦 Green-winged Pytilia

#285 🐦 Sand Martin

#286 🐦 Knob-billed Duck

#288 🐦 Garganey

#290 🐦 Cricket Warbler

#291 🐦 Speckle-fronted Weaver

#293 🐦 African Collared Dove

#296 🐦 Vinaceous Dove

#297 🐦 Common Ostrich

#300 🐦 Common Whitethroat

#303 🐦 Black-crowned Tchagra

#304 🐦 Bateleur

#310 🐦 African Green Pigeon

#317 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#320 🐦 Brown Babbler

#321 🐦 Black-billed Wood Dove

#323 🐦 Barn Owl

#326 🐦 Blue-naped Mousebird

#327 🐦 White-crowned Lapwing

#328 🐦 African Wattled Lapwing

#330 🐦 Black-headed Lapwing

#334 🐦 Sahel paradise whydah

#336 🦎 Bosc’s Fringe-toed Lizard

#337 🦎 Duméril's Fringe-fingered Lizard

#344 🦎 Desert Horned Viper

#347 🦎 West African crocodile

#356 🦎 Togo Fan-footed gecko

#360 🐸 Subdesert Toad

#362 🦎 African five-lined skink

Common

101

#020 🦌 Roan antelope

#023 🦌 Kob

#031 🦌 Olive Baboon

#032 🦌 Common warthog

#035 🦌 Black Rat · introduced

#037 🦌 Bush Duiker

#038 🦌 African buffalo

#039 🦌 Bushbuck

#044 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#045 🐦 African Jacana

#046 🐦 Egyptian Goose

#048 🐦 Black Crake

#055 🐦 Little Swift

#059 🐦 Great Egret

#060 🐦 Grey Heron

#062 🐦 Black-Headed Heron

#063 🐦 Purple Heron

#064 🐦 Squacco Heron

#067 🐦 Hadada Ibis

#068 🐦 White-billed Buffalo Weaver

#071 🐦 Cattle Egret

#078 🐦 Striated Heron

#081 🐦 Ruff

#082 🐦 Green-backed camaroptera

#085 🐦 Senegal Coucal

#087 🐦 Pied Kingfisher

#094 🐦 Abdim's Stork

#098 🐦 Beautiful Sunbird

#103 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#112 🐦 Speckled Pigeon

#113 🐦 Rock Dove

#114 🐦 Abyssinian Roller

#116 🐦 Yellow-billed Shrike

#117 🐦 Pied Crow

#121 🐦 Western Plantain-eater

#123 🐦 Yellow-fronted Canary

#127 🐦 African Palm Swift

#129 🐦 White-faced Whistling-Duck

#132 🐦 Fork-tailed Drongo

#133 🐦 Little Egret

#134 🐦 Intermediate egret

#135 🐦 Black-winged Kite

#141 🐦 Chestnut-backed Sparrow-lark

#142 🐦 Black-crowned Sparrow-lark

#146 🐦 African Silverbill

#161 🐦 Crested lark

#164 🐦 Common Moorhen

#173 🐦 African Fish Eagle

#174 🐦 Pygmy Sunbird

#177 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#181 🐦 Barn Swallow

#184 🐦 Western Olivaceous Warbler

#188 🐦 Red-billed Firefinch

#189 🐦 Long-tailed Glossy Starling

#191 🐦 Greater Blue-eared Starling

#193 🐦 Chestnut-bellied Starling

#194 🐦 Purple Starling

#203 🐦 African Grey Hornbill

#212 🐦 Little Bee-eater

#213 🐦 African Green Bee-eater

#214 🐦 Long-tailed Cormorant

#215 🐦 Gabar Goshawk

#217 🐦 Black Kite

#222 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#226 🐦 Hooded Vulture

#229 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#230 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#231 🐦 Namaqua Dove

#236 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#241 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#242 🐦 Northern Grey-headed Sparrow

#243 🐦 Sudan Golden Sparrow

#247 🐦 Green Woodhoopoe

#248 🐦 Common Redstart

#255 🐦 Village Weaver

#257 🐦 Little Weaver

#261 🐦 Egyptian Plover

#270 🐦 Tawny-flanked Prinia

#272 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet

#279 🐦 Piapiac

#280 🐦 Common Bulbul

#282 🐦 Red-billed Quelea

#284 🐦 Brown-throated martin

#287 🐦 Hamerkop

#289 🐦 Laughing Dove

#292 🐦 Mourning Collared Dove

#294 🐦 Red-eyed Dove

#306 🐦 Sacred Ibis

#307 🐦 Red-billed Hornbill

#314 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#315 🐦 Common Greenshank

#316 🐦 Green sandpiper

#324 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

#325 🐦 Red-cheeked Cordonbleu

#329 🐦 Spur-winged Lapwing

#331 🐦 Village Indigobird

#333 🐦 Pin-tailed Whydah

#339 🦎 Common Agama

#348 🦎 House Gecko

#349 🐸 Crowned Bullfrog

#367 🦎 Nile Monitor

Vagrants

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

#001 🦌 Johan's Spiny Mouse

#003 🦌 Barbary sheep

#012 🦌 Sand Cat

#015 🦌 Gambian Gerbil

#016 🦌 Nigerian Gerbil

#018 🦌 Kellen's Dormouse

#025 🦌 Reddish-white Mastomys

#027 🦌 Dama Gazelle

#033 🦌 Dalton's Praomys

#218 🐦 Kordofan Lark

#338 🦎 Long Fringe-fingered Lizard

#340 🦎 Mali Agama

#341 🦎 False Agama

#343 🦎 African spurred tortoise

#346 🦎 African Chameleon

#351 🦎 Awl-headed Snake

#352 🦎 Pasteur's Lizard

#353 🦎 Gambia Blind Snake

#355 🦎 West-African Whip Snake

#357 🦎 Peters' Banded Skink

#358 🐸 Hallowell's Toad

#359 🐸 African Common Toad

#361 🦎 African Wall Gecko

#364 🦎 Northern Sand Gecko

#365 🦎 Savannah Monitor

#366 🦎 Desert Monitor