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Nova Scotia wildlife

431 species in the Nova Scotia dex: 133 Common, 148 Uncommon, 124 Rare, 26 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.

#030 🦌 Little Brown Myotis · location protected

#031 🦌 Woodland jumping mouse

#047 🦌 Wild Boar · introduced

#066 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#086 🐦 Eastern Whip-poor-will

#087 🐦 Golden Eagle

#128 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#163 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#181 🐦 Northern Bobwhite · location protected

#205 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#213 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher · location protected

#217 🐦 Brewer's Blackbird

#225 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird

#265 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike · location protected

#299 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker · location protected

#305 🐦 Wild Turkey

#350 🐦 Cave Swallow

#374 🐦 European Golden Plover

#389 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler · location protected

#418 🐦 Cerulean Warbler · location protected

#434 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#460 🐦 Roseate Tern · location protected

#488 🐦 Fork-tailed Flycatcher

#494 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#504 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#520 🐸 Four-toed Salamander

Rare

124

#001 🦌 North American Hoary Bat

#007 🦌 Wolf

#009 🦌 Star-nosed Mole

#019 🦌 Silver-haired Bat

#024 🦌 American Marten

#027 🦌 Meadow vole

#028 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#035 🦌 Harp Seal

#036 🦌 Fisher

#037 🦌 White-footed Mouse

#045 🦌 Cinereus Shrew

#046 🦌 Smoky Shrew

#053 🦌 Meadow jumping mouse

#063 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#068 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#070 🐦 Seaside Sparrow

#073 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#077 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#079 🐦 Pink-footed Goose

#091 🐦 Grey Heron

#096 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#099 🐦 Redhead

#103 🐦 Canvasback

#105 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#112 🐦 Cackling Goose

#113 🐦 Barnacle Goose

#124 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#126 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#127 🐦 Green Heron

#129 🐦 Lark Bunting

#137 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#141 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#145 🐦 Ruff

#155 🐦 Bicknell's Thrush

#158 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#169 🐦 Black Tern

#176 🐦 Sedge Wren

#179 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#186 🐦 Black Vulture

#193 🐦 Tundra Swan

#194 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#195 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#201 🐦 Little Egret

#204 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#209 🐦 Hammond's Flycatcher

#211 🐦 Dusky Flycatcher

#231 🐦 Common Moorhen

#234 🐦 Pacific Loon

#236 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#237 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#239 🐦 MacGillivray's Warbler

#247 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#252 🐦 Little Gull

#254 🐦 Wood Thrush

#256 🐦 Bullock's Oriole

#259 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#260 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#262 🐦 Varied Thrush

#282 🐦 Franklin's gull

#285 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#287 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#316 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#318 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#319 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#321 🐦 Hudsonian Whimbrel

#323 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#325 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#329 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#343 🐦 Painted Bunting

#346 🐦 American White Pelican

#347 🐦 Brown Pelican

#355 🐦 Red Phalarope

#356 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#357 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#360 🐦 Black-headed Grosbeak

#368 🐦 Western Tanager

#370 🐦 Summer Tanager

#373 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#384 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#385 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#386 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#388 🐦 Purple Martin

#400 🐦 Virginia Rail

#401 🐦 American Avocet

#409 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#413 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#414 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#419 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#425 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#441 🐦 King Eider

#445 🐦 Garganey

#454 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#455 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#456 🐦 South Polar Skua

#457 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#458 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#459 🐦 Great Skua

#461 🐦 Forster's Tern

#464 🐦 Least Tern

#465 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#467 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#468 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#470 🐦 Brown Booby

#473 🐦 Royal Tern

#474 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#481 🐦 House Wren

#483 🐦 Redwing

#486 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#490 🐦 Western Kingbird

#493 🐦 Northern Lapwing

#495 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#496 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#497 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#499 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#503 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#505 🐦 White-winged Dove

#508 🐦 Golden-crowned Sparrow

#510 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#517 🦎 Ringneck Snake

#519 🦎 Blanding's turtle

#525 🐸 Mink Frog

#528 🦎 Smooth Green Snake

#533 🦎 Eastern Ribbonsnake

#535 🦎 Pond Slider · introduced

Uncommon

148

#005 🦌 Northern Short-tailed Shrew

#006 🦌 Coyote

#013 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#014 🦌 Northern Flying Squirrel

#016 🦌 Grey seal

#021 🦌 North American River Otter

#022 🦌 Bobcat

#023 🦌 Woodchuck

#026 🦌 Striped Skunk

#029 🦌 Ermine

#038 🦌 North American Deermouse

#043 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#051 🦌 American Black Bear

#054 🐦 Common Redpoll

#060 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#065 🐦 Razorbill

#067 🐦 Little Auk

#072 🐦 Northern Pintail

#080 🐦 Snow Goose

#084 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#090 🐦 Great Egret

#093 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#095 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#098 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#101 🐦 Tufted Duck

#107 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#109 🐦 American Bittern

#110 🐦 Brent Goose

#114 🐦 Snowy Owl

#115 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#116 🐦 Cattle Egret

#119 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#123 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#125 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#130 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#134 🐦 Dunlin

#135 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#136 🐦 Red Knot

#138 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#139 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#140 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#142 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#147 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#149 🐦 Spruce Grouse

#151 🐦 Canada Warbler

#152 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#156 🐦 Veery

#162 🐦 Chimney Swift

#164 🐦 Piping Plover

#170 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#171 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#173 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#175 🐦 Marsh Wren

#178 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#183 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#196 🐦 Bobolink

#200 🐦 Little blue heron

#203 🐦 Snowy egret

#208 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#212 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#214 🐦 Horned Lark

#216 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#218 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#220 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#222 🐦 American Kestrel

#224 🐦 Atlantic Puffin

#227 🐦 American Coot

#229 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#235 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#238 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#241 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#242 🐦 American Oystercatcher

#243 🐦 House Finch

#251 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#253 🐦 Caspian Tern

#255 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#258 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#264 🐦 Northern Shrike

#268 🐦 Mew Gull

#271 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#273 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#277 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#278 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#281 🐦 Laughing Gull

#288 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#292 🐦 Red Crossbill

#293 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#295 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#296 🐦 Gadwall

#298 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#307 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#311 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#314 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#322 🐦 Whimbrel

#324 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#333 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#337 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#340 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#342 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#344 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#349 🐦 Gray Jay

#351 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#359 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#362 🐦 Black-backed Woodpecker

#364 🐦 Pine Grosbeak

#366 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#369 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#371 🐦 Snow Bunting

#375 🐦 American Golden Plover

#378 🐦 Horned Grebe

#379 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#381 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#387 🐦 Sora

#404 🐦 Sand Martin

#405 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#408 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#410 🐦 American Woodcock

#416 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#417 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#421 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#422 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#430 🐦 Pine Warbler

#433 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#437 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#442 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#444 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#449 🐦 Dickcissel

#450 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#452 🐦 Field Sparrow

#463 🐦 Arctic Tern

#466 🐦 Barred owl

#475 🐦 Carolina Wren

#476 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#480 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#489 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#491 🐦 Common Murre

#492 🐦 Thick-billed Murre

#498 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#501 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#509 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#511 🐸 Blue-spotted Salamander

#512 🐸 Spotted Salamander

#514 🦎 Common snapping turtle

#518 🐸 Gray Treefrog

#521 🐸 American Bullfrog

#523 🐸 Pickerel Frog

#527 🐸 Eastern Newt

#532 🦎 Redbelly Snake

Common

133

#002 🦌 Moose

#008 🦌 American beaver

#011 🦌 North American porcupine

#020 🦌 Snowshoe Hare

#032 🦌 White-tailed deer

#033 🦌 Muskrat

#039 🦌 Harbor Seal

#042 🦌 Raccoon

#044 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#048 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#049 🦌 Red Squirrel

#052 🦌 Red Fox

#056 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#058 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#062 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#064 🐦 Wood Duck

#071 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#074 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#075 🐦 Mallard

#076 🐦 American Black Duck

#089 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#092 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#100 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#102 🐦 Greater scaup

#106 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#108 🐦 Ruffed Grouse

#111 🐦 Canada goose

#117 🐦 Bufflehead

#118 🐦 Common goldeneye

#122 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#133 🐦 Sanderling

#144 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#146 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#153 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#154 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#157 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#159 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#160 🐦 Black Guillemot

#161 🐦 Brown Creeper

#165 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#166 🐦 Killdeer

#172 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#174 🐦 Hen Harrier

#177 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#180 🐦 Northern Flicker

#182 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#185 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#187 🐦 American Crow

#188 🐦 Common Raven

#190 🐦 Blue Jay

#197 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#198 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#199 🐦 Gray Catbird

#206 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#210 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#219 🐦 Merlin

#233 🐦 Common Loon

#240 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#244 🐦 Purple Finch

#245 🐦 Bald Eagle

#248 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#250 🐦 Barn Swallow

#263 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#269 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#272 🐦 Iceland Gull

#274 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#276 🐦 American Herring Gull

#279 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#280 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#284 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#291 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#294 🐦 American Wigeon

#297 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#301 🐦 Black Scoter

#302 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#304 🐦 Surf Scoter

#306 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#308 🐦 Song Sparrow

#309 🐦 Goosander

#310 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#312 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#315 🐦 Northern Gannet

#335 🐦 Osprey

#338 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#339 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#353 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#354 🐦 Great Cormorant

#358 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#377 🐦 Grey Plover

#382 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#383 🐦 Boreal Chickadee

#397 🐦 Common Grackle

#402 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#403 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#411 🐦 Ovenbird

#415 🐦 Northern Parula

#420 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#423 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#424 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#427 🐦 Palm Warbler

#428 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#429 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#431 🐦 American Redstart

#432 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#435 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#438 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#439 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#440 🐦 Common Eider

#446 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#447 🐦 Pine Siskin

#448 🐦 American Goldfinch

#451 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#453 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#462 🐦 Common Tern

#469 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#472 🐦 Tree Swallow

#477 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#478 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#479 🐦 Willet

#482 🐦 Winter Wren

#484 🐦 American Robin

#500 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#502 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#506 🐦 Mourning Dove

#507 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#513 🐸 American Toad

#515 🦎 Painted Turtle

#522 🐸 Green Frog

#524 🐸 Northern Leopard Frog

#526 🐸 Wood Frog

#529 🐸 Redback Salamander

#530 🐸 Spring Peeper

#534 🦎 Common Garter Snake

Vagrants

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

#055 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#057 🐦 Common myna

#059 🐦 Western Grebe

#061 🐦 Boreal Owl

#069 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#078 🐦 Greylag Goose

#081 🐦 Bar-headed Goose

#082 🐦 Ross's Goose

#083 🐦 Tundra Bean Goose

#085 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#088 🐦 Limpkin

#094 🐦 Bell's Sparrow

#097 🐦 Burrowing Owl · location protected

#104 🐦 Tufted Titmouse

#120 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#121 🐦 Zone-tailed Hawk

#131 🐦 Chestnut-collared longspur · location protected

#132 🐦 Smith's Longspur

#143 🐦 Little Stint

#150 🐦 Southern Caracara

#167 🐦 Wilson's Plover

#168 🐦 White-winged Tern

#184 🐦 Western wood-pewee

#189 🐦 Fish Crow

#191 🐦 Black swan

#192 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#202 🐦 Western reef heron

#207 🐦 Western Flycatcher

#215 🐦 White Ibis

#221 🐦 Gyrfalcon

#223 🐦 Common Kestrel

#226 🐦 Brambling

#230 🐦 Common snipe

#232 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#246 🐦 Steller's Sea Eagle

#249 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#257 🐦 Hooded Oriole

#261 🐦 Least Bittern

#266 🐦 Herring Gull

#267 🐦 California Gull

#270 🐦 Kelp Gull

#275 🐦 Slaty-backed Gull

#283 🐦 Gray-crowned Rosy-finch

#286 🐦 Swainson's Warbler

#289 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#290 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#300 🐦 Lewis's Woodpecker

#303 🐦 Common Scoter

#313 🐦 Bronzed Cowbird

#317 🐦 Wood Stork

#320 🐦 Long-billed Curlew

#327 🐦 Band-rumped storm-petrel

#330 🐦 Bridled Tern

#331 🐦 Sooty Tern

#332 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#334 🐦 Ivory Gull · location protected

#336 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#341 🐦 Lazuli Bunting

#345 🐦 White-faced Storm-petrel

#348 🐦 Grey Partridge · introduced

#352 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#361 🐦 Black-billed Magpie

#363 🐦 American Three-toed Woodpecker

#365 🐦 Green-tailed Towhee

#367 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#372 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#376 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#380 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#390 🐦 Trindade Petrel

#391 🐦 Black-capped Petrel

#394 🐦 Audubon's Shearwater

#396 🐦 Vermilion Flycatcher

#398 🐦 Clapper Rail

#399 🐦 King Rail · location protected

#406 🐦 Black Skimmer

#407 🐦 Rock Wren

#412 🐦 Calliope Hummingbird

#426 🐦 Hermit Warbler

#436 🐦 Mountain Bluebird

#443 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#471 🐦 Northern hawk-owl

#485 🐦 Fieldfare

#487 🐦 Tropical Kingbird

#531 🦎 American Red-bellied Turtle

Marine

Seen offshore.

#003 🦌 Minke Whale

#004 🦌 Fin Whale

#010 🦌 Common Dolphin

#012 🦌 North Atlantic Right Whale · location protected

#015 🦌 Long-finned pilot whale

#017 🦌 Atlantic White-sided Dolphin

#018 🦌 White-beaked Dolphin

#025 🦌 Humpback Whale

#034 🦌 Killer Whale

#040 🦌 Harbor porpoise

#041 🦌 Sperm Whale

#050 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#148 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#228 🐦 Northern Fulmar

#326 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#328 🐦 Leach's Storm Petrel

#392 🐦 Great Shearwater

#393 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#395 🐦 Manx Shearwater

#516 🦎 Leatherback Sea Turtle