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Northwest Territories wildlife

257 species in the Northwest Territories dex: 76 Common, 93 Uncommon, 76 Rare, 12 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 🦌 Bearded Seal

#049 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#074 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#097 🐦 Brown Creeper

#105 🐦 American Dipper

#166 🐦 Glaucous-winged gull

#239 🐦 American Avocet

#241 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#249 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#279 🐦 Barred owl

#280 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#282 🐦 Northern hawk-owl

Rare

#009 🦌 Canadian Lynx

#010 🦌 Meadow vole

#012 🦌 Northern Red-backed Vole

#013 🦌 Bushy-tailed Woodrat

#014 🦌 Collared Pika

#018 🦌 Dall's Sheep

#027 🦌 Arctic Fox

#029 🦌 Meadow jumping mouse

#034 🐦 Boreal Owl

#037 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#044 🐦 Ross's Goose

#046 🐦 Golden Eagle

#050 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#054 🐦 Redhead

#058 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#062 🐦 American Bittern

#063 🐦 Brent Goose

#066 🐦 Snowy Owl

#071 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#077 🐦 Smith's Longspur

#078 🐦 Sanderling

#080 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#082 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#088 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#091 🐦 Canada Warbler

#100 🐦 Black Tern

#107 🐦 Marsh Wren

#111 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#112 🐦 Western wood-pewee

#116 🐦 Yellow Rail

#124 🐦 Gray Catbird

#126 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#127 🐦 Hammond's Flycatcher

#132 🐦 Brewer's Blackbird

#133 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#140 🐦 Yellow-billed Loon

#144 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#153 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#156 🐦 Varied Thrush

#160 🐦 Rock Ptarmigan

#161 🐦 Northern Shrike

#167 🐦 Iceland Gull

#175 🐦 Franklin's gull

#176 🐦 Gray-crowned Rosy-finch

#177 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#178 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#179 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#180 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#181 🐦 Red Crossbill

#185 🐦 Gadwall

#187 🐦 Black Scoter

#198 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#199 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#204 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#206 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#218 🐦 Red Phalarope

#220 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#221 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#223 🐦 Black-backed Woodpecker

#224 🐦 American Three-toed Woodpecker

#229 🐦 Grey Plover

#232 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#233 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#245 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#250 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#259 🐦 Mountain Bluebird

#261 🐦 Common Eider

#262 🐦 King Eider

#274 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#284 🐦 Violet-green Swallow

#290 🐦 Winter Wren

#297 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#299 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#300 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#302 🐦 Mourning Dove

#304 🐦 Golden-crowned Sparrow

Uncommon

#002 🦌 American bison

#003 🦌 Wolf

#007 🦌 Snowshoe Hare

#008 🦌 North American River Otter

#011 🦌 Ermine

#017 🦌 Muskox

#021 🦌 Least Chipmunk

#023 🦌 Arctic Ground Squirrel

#024 🦌 American Black Bear

#025 🦌 Brown Bear

#026 🦌 Polar Bear

#031 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#036 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#041 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#043 🐦 Snow Goose

#045 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#051 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#056 🐦 Greater scaup

#059 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#060 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#061 🐦 Ruffed Grouse

#065 🐦 Cackling Goose

#067 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#072 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#073 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#076 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#083 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#085 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#086 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#087 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#090 🐦 Spruce Grouse

#092 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#094 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#095 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#098 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#099 🐦 Killdeer

#102 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#108 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#118 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#122 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#123 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#128 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#130 🐦 Horned Lark

#135 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#138 🐦 American Coot

#143 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#145 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#149 🐦 Purple Finch

#151 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#154 🐦 Caspian Tern

#168 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#182 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#186 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#188 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#189 🐦 Surf Scoter

#193 🐦 Song Sparrow

#194 🐦 Goosander

#197 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#203 🐦 Whimbrel

#207 🐦 Osprey

#214 🐦 American White Pelican

#219 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#226 🐦 Western Tanager

#228 🐦 American Golden Plover

#237 🐦 Sora

#238 🐦 Common Grackle

#242 🐦 Sand Martin

#246 🐦 Ovenbird

#252 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#253 🐦 Palm Warbler

#255 🐦 American Redstart

#256 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#257 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#260 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#264 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#265 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#266 🐦 Pine Siskin

#269 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#272 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#273 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#275 🐦 Common Tern

#281 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#287 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#289 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#292 🐦 Sharp-tailed Grouse

#293 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#295 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#296 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#298 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#306 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#307 🐸 Western Toad

#308 🐸 Wood Frog

#309 🦎 Common Garter Snake

Common

#001 🦌 Moose

#004 🦌 American beaver

#005 🦌 North American porcupine

#015 🦌 White-tailed deer

#016 🦌 Muskrat

#020 🦌 Reindeer

#022 🦌 Red Squirrel

#028 🦌 Red Fox

#030 🐦 Common Redpoll

#032 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#035 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#038 🐦 Northern Pintail

#039 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#040 🐦 Mallard

#053 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#055 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#057 🐦 Canvasback

#064 🐦 Canada goose

#069 🐦 Bufflehead

#070 🐦 Common goldeneye

#096 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#103 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#106 🐦 Hen Harrier

#109 🐦 Northern Flicker

#114 🐦 American Crow

#115 🐦 Common Raven

#119 🐦 Tundra Swan

#125 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#131 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#134 🐦 Merlin

#137 🐦 American Kestrel

#139 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#141 🐦 Common Loon

#142 🐦 Pacific Loon

#147 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#150 🐦 Bald Eagle

#152 🐦 Barn Swallow

#157 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#158 🐦 Willow Ptarmigan

#162 🐦 Short-billed Gull

#163 🐦 California Gull

#164 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#170 🐦 American Herring Gull

#171 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#172 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#174 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#183 🐦 American Wigeon

#191 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#192 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#195 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#208 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#209 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#210 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#211 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#215 🐦 Gray Jay

#216 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#222 🐦 Black-billed Magpie

#225 🐦 Pine Grosbeak

#227 🐦 Snow Bunting

#230 🐦 Horned Grebe

#231 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#234 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#235 🐦 Boreal Chickadee

#240 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#244 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#251 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#254 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#263 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#270 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#271 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#276 🐦 Arctic Tern

#283 🐦 Tree Swallow

#285 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#291 🐦 American Robin

#303 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#305 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

Vagrants

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

#019 🦌 Spotted Seal

#033 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#042 🐦 Greylag Goose

#047 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#048 🐦 Great Egret

#052 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#068 🐦 Cattle Egret

#075 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#079 🐦 Dunlin

#081 🐦 Red Knot

#084 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#089 🐦 Surfbird

#093 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#101 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#104 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#110 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#113 🐦 Black Vulture

#117 🐦 Blue Jay

#120 🐦 Dusky Grouse

#121 🐦 Bobolink

#129 🐦 Dusky Flycatcher

#136 🐦 Gyrfalcon

#146 🐦 Whooping Crane · location protected

#148 🐦 House Finch

#155 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#159 🐦 White-tailed Ptarmigan

#165 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#169 🐦 Slaty-backed Gull

#173 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#184 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#190 🐦 Budgerigar

#196 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#200 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#201 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#202 🐦 Hudsonian Whimbrel

#205 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#212 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#213 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#217 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#236 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#243 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#247 🐦 Calliope Hummingbird

#248 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#258 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#267 🐦 American Goldfinch

#268 🐦 Dickcissel

#277 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#278 🐦 Great Grey Owl

#286 🐦 Wandering Tattler

#288 🐦 Willet

#294 🐦 Western Kingbird

#301 🐦 White-winged Dove