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Northern Mariana Islands wildlife

100 species in the Northern Mariana Islands dex: 32 Common, 33 Uncommon, 31 Rare, 4 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.

#063 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#064 🐦 Lesser frigatebird

#071 🐦 Oriental Pratincole

#114 🐦 Garganey

Rare

#003 🦌 Northern Bettong

#025 🐦 Eurasian Teal · introduced

#036 🐦 Striated Heron

#037 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#042 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#044 🐦 Ruff

#045 🐦 Red-necked stint

#046 🐦 Long-toed Stint

#048 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#049 🐦 Greater Sand Plover

#052 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#067 🐦 Common snipe

#068 🐦 Swinhoe's Snipe

#077 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#079 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#089 🐦 Bristle-thighed curlew

#093 🐦 Spectacled Tern

#096 🐦 Abbott's booby

#104 🐦 Grey Plover

#113 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#118 🐦 Common Tern

#119 🐦 Black-naped Tern

#120 🐦 Little Tern

#131 🐦 Common Greenshank

#133 🐦 Common Redshank

#134 🐦 Terek Sandpiper

#139 🦎 Northern Dward-crowned Snake

#142 🦎 Black-striped Snake

#144 🦎 Pacific Bluetail Skink

#150 🦎 Brahminy blindsnake

#153 🦎 Pelagic Gecko

Uncommon

#001 🦌 Rufous rat-kangaroo

#005 🦌 Little Pied Bat

#021 🐦 Saipan Reed-warbler

#022 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#024 🐦 Northern Pintail

#031 🐦 Great Egret

#032 🐦 Grey Heron · introduced

#034 🐦 Tufted Duck

#038 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#039 🐦 Sanderling

#050 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#054 🐦 Rock Dove

#058 🐦 Little Egret

#059 🐦 Intermediate egret

#065 🐦 Great Frigatebird

#069 🐦 Common Moorhen

#073 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#075 🐦 Barn Swallow

#080 🐦 Micronesian Megapode

#083 🐦 Tinian Monarch

#092 🐦 Sooty Tern

#099 🐦 Red-tailed Tropicbird

#122 🐦 Masked Booby

#129 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#130 🐦 Wandering Tattler

#132 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#136 🐦 Rota White-eye

#138 🦎 Spotted Python

#140 🦎 Curious Skink

#146 🦎 Orange-naped Snake

#147 🦎 Pacific Dtella

#152 🦎 Mourning Gecko

#154 🦎 Mulga Snake

Common

#004 🦌 Domesticated cattle

#012 🦌 Koala

#019 🦌 Wild Boar

#023 🐦 Mariana Swiftlet

#027 🐦 Black Noddy

#028 🐦 Brown Noddy

#029 🐦 Micronesian Starling

#033 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#053 🐦 Golden white-eye

#055 🐦 Mariana Crow

#057 🐦 Black Drongo · introduced

#060 🐦 Pacific Reef Heron

#061 🐦 Orange-cheeked waxbill · introduced

#070 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#072 🐦 White tern

#085 🐦 Micronesian Myzomela

#088 🐦 Whimbrel

#094 🐦 White-throated Ground Dove

#097 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow

#098 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#103 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#106 🐦 Mariana Fruit-dove

#121 🐦 Island Collared-dove

#123 🐦 Brown Booby

#124 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#126 🐦 Mariana Kingfisher

#128 🐦 Grey-tailed Tattler

#135 🐦 Bridled white-eye

#149 🦎 Common House Gecko

#151 🦎 Emerald Skink

#155 🐸 Cane Toad

#156 🦎 Saipan monitor

Vagrants

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

#014 🦌 Marianas Flying Fox

#015 🦌 Philippine Deer

#018 🦌 Rough-toothed dolphin

#026 🐦 Mallard

#030 🐦 Pacific Swift

#040 🐦 Broad-billed Sandpiper

#041 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#043 🐦 Little Stint

#047 🐦 Great Knot

#051 🐦 White-winged Tern

#056 🐦 Oriental Cuckoo

#062 🐦 Oriental dollarbird

#066 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#074 🐦 White-throated Needletail

#076 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#078 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#081 🐦 Budgerigar

#082 🐦 Black Kite

#084 🐦 Grey Wagtail

#086 🐦 Far Eastern Curlew

#087 🐦 Little Curlew

#090 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#095 🐦 Osprey

#100 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#101 🐦 Laysan Albatross

#102 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#105 🐦 Bonin Petrel

#107 🐦 Tropical Shearwater

#108 🐦 Bannerman's Shearwater

#109 🐦 Flesh-footed shearwater

#112 🐦 Rufous Fantail

#115 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#116 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#117 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#125 🐦 Greater Crested Tern

#127 🐦 White-streaked Honeyeater

#137 🦎 Striate Blind Snake

#143 🦎 Mangrove Skink

#148 🦎 Cape York Mulch-skink

Marine

Seen offshore.

#002 🦌 Eden's whale

#006 🦌 Pygmy Killer Whale

#007 🦌 Short-finned Pilot whale

#008 🦌 Risso's Dolphin

#009 🦌 Dwarf sperm whale

#010 🦌 Humpback Whale

#011 🦌 Australian Snubfin Dolphin

#013 🦌 Sperm Whale

#016 🦌 Pantropical Spotted Dolphin

#017 🦌 Spinner Dolphin

#020 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#035 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#091 🐦 Matsudaira's storm-petrel

#110 🐦 Wedge-tailed shearwater

#111 🐦 Short-Tailed Shearwater

#141 🦎 Green Turtle

#145 🦎 Hawksbill turtle