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North Dakota wildlife

390 species in the North Dakota dex: 117 Common, 138 Uncommon, 118 Rare, 17 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.

#017 🦌 Bushy-tailed Woodrat

#037 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#052 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#091 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#113 🐦 Ruff

#148 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#191 🐦 Yellow-billed Loon

#197 🐦 MacGillivray's Warbler

#237 🐦 Gray-crowned Rosy-finch

#273 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#290 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#330 🐦 Great-tailed Grackle

#344 🐦 Calliope Hummingbird

#347 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#351 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#365 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#433 🐦 White-winged Dove

Rare

118

#004 🦌 Domesticated cattle · introduced

#012 🦌 Silver-haired Bat

#013 🦌 Red Bat

#014 🦌 White-tailed Jackrabbit

#016 🦌 Meadow vole

#022 🦌 Franklin's Ground Squirrel

#024 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#029 🦌 Mountain Cottontail

#030 🦌 Least Chipmunk

#033 🦌 American Badger

#034 🦌 Richardson's Ground Squirrel

#040 🐦 Clark's Grebe

#042 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#043 🐦 Boreal Owl

#046 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#055 🐦 American Black Duck

#062 🐦 Eastern Whip-poor-will

#068 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#070 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#072 🐦 Burrowing Owl

#080 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#081 🐦 Ruffed Grouse

#094 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#098 🐦 Green Heron

#102 🐦 Smith's Longspur

#104 🐦 Dunlin

#106 🐦 Red Knot

#115 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#119 🐦 Canada Warbler

#128 🐦 Sage Grouse

#130 🐦 Henslow's Sparrow

#133 🐦 Piping Plover

#144 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#145 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#146 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#150 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#155 🐦 Yellow Rail

#158 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#160 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#161 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#172 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#181 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#183 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#193 🐦 Pacific Loon

#194 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#199 🐦 Whooping Crane

#202 🐦 Cassin's Finch

#207 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#208 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#212 🐦 Caspian Tern

#213 🐦 Wood Thrush

#215 🐦 Bullock's Oriole

#219 🐦 Varied Thrush

#224 🐦 Short-billed Gull

#227 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#228 🐦 Iceland Gull

#229 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#230 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#238 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#241 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#244 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#250 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#254 🐦 Black Scoter

#255 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#256 🐦 Surf Scoter

#263 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#264 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#267 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#271 🐦 Long-billed Curlew

#272 🐦 Whimbrel

#276 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#279 🐦 Osprey

#282 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow · introduced

#286 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#287 🐦 Painted Bunting

#297 🐦 Common Poorwill

#298 🐦 Red Phalarope

#306 🐦 Pine Grosbeak

#308 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#310 🐦 Western Tanager

#311 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#312 🐦 Summer Tanager

#315 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#316 🐦 American Golden Plover

#317 🐦 Grey Plover

#324 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#336 🐦 Thick-billed Longspur

#338 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#342 🐦 American Woodcock

#346 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#348 🐦 Northern Parula

#349 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#350 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#355 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#361 🐦 Pine Warbler

#364 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#366 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#374 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#382 🐦 Brewer's Sparrow

#389 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#393 🐦 Least Tern

#396 🐦 Barred owl

#397 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#401 🐦 Violet-green Swallow

#410 🐦 Winter Wren

#412 🐦 Greater Prairie Chicken

#419 🐦 American Barn Owl

#420 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#421 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#422 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#428 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#432 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#439 🐸 Western Tiger Salamander

#440 🐸 Great Plains Toad

#441 🐸 Canadian Toad

#447 🦎 Western Hognose Snake

#450 🦎 Smooth Green Snake

#455 🦎 Redbelly Snake

Uncommon

138

#001 🦌 Moose

#002 🦌 Pronghorn

#003 🦌 American bison

#007 🦌 Red deer

#009 🦌 Horse · introduced

#010 🦌 North American porcupine

#011 🦌 Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel

#015 🦌 Striped Skunk

#020 🦌 Muskrat

#021 🦌 Bighorn sheep

#027 🦌 Desert Cottontail

#032 🦌 Red Squirrel

#035 🦌 Red Fox

#036 🐦 Common Redpoll

#038 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#048 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#049 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#056 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#058 🐦 Snow Goose

#059 🐦 Ross's Goose

#060 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#061 🐦 Sprague's Pipit

#063 🐦 Golden Eagle

#065 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#066 🐦 Great Egret

#076 🐦 Greater scaup

#082 🐦 American Bittern

#085 🐦 Cackling Goose

#086 🐦 Snowy Owl

#087 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#088 🐦 Cattle Egret

#090 🐦 Common goldeneye

#093 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#095 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#096 🐦 Ferruginous hawk

#099 🐦 Lark Bunting

#100 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#101 🐦 Chestnut-collared longspur

#103 🐦 Sanderling

#105 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#108 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#109 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#111 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#112 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#114 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#120 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#121 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#123 🐦 Veery

#124 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#125 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#126 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#129 🐦 Baird's Sparrow

#131 🐦 Brown Creeper

#132 🐦 Chimney Swift

#134 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#138 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#139 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#143 🐦 Sedge Wren

#151 🐦 Western wood-pewee

#152 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#154 🐦 Common Raven

#159 🐦 Tundra Swan

#164 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#167 🐦 Snowy egret

#170 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#175 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#184 🐦 Merlin

#185 🐦 Prairie Falcon

#186 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#192 🐦 Common Loon

#196 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#200 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#204 🐦 Purple Finch

#214 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#221 🐦 Northern Shrike

#222 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike

#225 🐦 California Gull

#231 🐦 American Herring Gull

#232 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#233 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#234 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#239 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#243 🐦 Red Crossbill

#248 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#251 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#252 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker

#257 🐦 Wild Turkey

#259 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#260 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#262 🐦 Goosander

#265 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#268 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#275 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#280 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#284 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#285 🐦 Lazuli Bunting

#288 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#292 🐦 Grey Partridge · introduced

#299 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#302 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#303 🐦 Black-headed Grosbeak

#313 🐦 Snow Bunting

#314 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#318 🐦 Horned Grebe

#319 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#327 🐦 Purple Martin

#332 🐦 Virginia Rail

#334 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#335 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#339 🐦 Rock Wren

#340 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#341 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#343 🐦 Ovenbird

#356 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#358 🐦 Palm Warbler

#359 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#363 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#367 🐦 Mountain Bluebird

#368 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#377 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#381 🐦 Dickcissel

#385 🐦 Field Sparrow

#386 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#387 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#391 🐦 Common Tern

#406 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#408 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#424 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#430 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#437 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#438 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#442 🐸 Woodhouse's Toad

#446 🦎 Prairie Rattlesnake

#448 🐸 Northern Leopard Frog

#451 🦎 Greater Short-horned Lizard

#453 🐸 Boreal Chorus Frog

#454 🦎 Sagebrush Lizard

#456 🦎 Plains Garter Snake

Common

117

#005 🦌 Coyote

#006 🦌 American beaver

#008 🦌 Black-tailed Prairie Dog

#018 🦌 Mule deer

#019 🦌 White-tailed deer

#023 🦌 Raccoon

#025 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#026 🦌 Fox Squirrel

#028 🦌 Eastern Cottontail

#031 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#039 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#041 🐦 Western Grebe

#044 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#045 🐦 Wood Duck

#047 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#051 🐦 Northern Pintail

#053 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#054 🐦 Mallard

#067 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#073 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#074 🐦 Redhead

#075 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#077 🐦 Canvasback

#078 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#079 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#084 🐦 Canada goose

#089 🐦 Bufflehead

#092 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#097 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#122 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#135 🐦 Killdeer

#136 🐦 Black Tern

#137 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#141 🐦 Hen Harrier

#142 🐦 Marsh Wren

#147 🐦 Northern Flicker

#149 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#153 🐦 American Crow

#157 🐦 Blue Jay

#162 🐦 Bobolink

#163 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#165 🐦 Gray Catbird

#174 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#178 🐦 Horned Lark

#182 🐦 Brewer's Blackbird

#187 🐦 American Kestrel

#189 🐦 American Coot

#190 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#198 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#203 🐦 House Finch

#205 🐦 Bald Eagle

#209 🐦 Barn Swallow

#216 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#217 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#220 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#226 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#235 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#236 🐦 Franklin's gull

#240 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#242 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#245 🐦 American Wigeon

#247 🐦 Gadwall

#261 🐦 Song Sparrow

#266 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#278 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#281 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#283 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#291 🐦 American White Pelican

#294 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#295 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#300 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#301 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#304 🐦 Black-billed Magpie

#309 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#320 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#321 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#322 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#325 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#326 🐦 Sora

#331 🐦 Common Grackle

#333 🐦 American Avocet

#337 🐦 Sand Martin

#352 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#360 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#362 🐦 American Redstart

#369 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#370 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#373 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#375 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#378 🐦 Pine Siskin

#380 🐦 American Goldfinch

#383 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#384 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#390 🐦 Forster's Tern

#394 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#398 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#399 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#400 🐦 Tree Swallow

#404 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#405 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#407 🐦 Willet

#409 🐦 House Wren

#411 🐦 American Robin

#413 🐦 Sharp-tailed Grouse

#416 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#417 🐦 Western Kingbird

#425 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#427 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#431 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#434 🐦 Mourning Dove

#435 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#443 🦎 Common snapping turtle

#444 🦎 Painted Turtle

#445 🦎 Eastern Racer

#449 🐸 Wood Frog

#452 🦎 Gopher Snake

#457 🦎 Common Garter Snake

Vagrants

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

#050 🐦 Black-Throated Sparrow

#057 🐦 Greylag Goose

#064 🐦 Black-chinned Hummingbird

#069 🐦 Sagebrush Sparrow

#071 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#083 🐦 Brent Goose

#107 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#110 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#116 🐦 California Quail

#117 🐦 Anna's Hummingbird

#118 🐦 Southern Caracara

#127 🐦 Canyon Wren

#140 🐦 Golden Pheasant

#156 🐦 Groove-billed Ani

#166 🐦 Little blue heron

#168 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#169 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#171 🐦 Western Flycatcher

#173 🐦 Hammond's Flycatcher

#176 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher

#177 🐦 Grey Flycatcher

#179 🐦 Orange-cheeked waxbill

#180 🐦 White Ibis

#188 🐦 Brambling

#195 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#201 🐦 Pinyon Jay

#206 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#210 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#211 🐦 Little Gull

#218 🐦 Least Bittern

#223 🐦 Herring Gull

#246 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#249 🐦 Ringed Kingfisher

#253 🐦 Lewis's Woodpecker

#258 🐦 Budgerigar · introduced

#269 🐦 Painted Whitestart

#270 🐦 Clark's Nutcracker

#274 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#277 🐦 Sage Thrasher

#289 🐦 Band-tailed Pigeon

#293 🐦 Gray Jay

#296 🐦 Neotropic cormorant

#305 🐦 Black-backed Woodpecker

#307 🐦 Green-tailed Towhee

#323 🐦 Boreal Chickadee

#328 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#329 🐦 Vermilion Flycatcher

#345 🐦 Broad-tailed Hummingbird

#353 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#354 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#357 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#371 🐦 Common Eider

#372 🐦 King Eider

#376 🐦 Red-naped Sapsucker

#379 🐦 Lesser Goldfinch

#388 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#392 🐦 Arctic Tern

#395 🐦 African Collared Dove

#402 🐦 Ruddy Shelduck

#403 🐦 Carolina Wren

#414 🐦 Thick-billed Kingbird

#415 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#418 🐦 Cassin's Kingbird

#423 🐦 Cassin's Vireo

#426 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#429 🐦 Plumbeous Vireo

#436 🐦 Golden-crowned Sparrow