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Nunavut wildlife

118 species in the Nunavut dex: 36 Common, 43 Uncommon, 33 Rare, 6 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 🐦 American Black Duck

#103 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#125 🐦 Black Scoter

#138 🐦 Ivory Gull · location protected

#161 🐦 Sand Martin

#163 🐦 Say's Phoebe

Rare

#006 🦌 Bearded Seal

#013 🦌 Walrus

#016 🦌 Harp Seal

#024 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#026 🐦 Little Auk

#029 🐦 Mallard

#037 🐦 Golden Eagle

#042 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#051 🐦 Common goldeneye

#054 🐦 Smith's Longspur

#069 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#070 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#078 🐦 Hen Harrier

#087 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#094 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#102 🐦 Barn Swallow

#105 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#108 🐦 Northern Shrike

#123 🐦 American Wigeon

#126 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#130 🐦 Goosander

#135 🐦 Whimbrel

#144 🐦 Gray Jay

#145 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#165 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#167 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#168 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#173 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#184 🐦 Tree Swallow

#185 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#189 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#193 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#196 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

Uncommon

#002 🦌 Wolf

#011 🦌 Ermine

#012 🦌 Northern Red-backed Vole

#018 🦌 Arctic Ground Squirrel

#019 🦌 Brown Bear

#020 🦌 Polar Bear

#021 🦌 Arctic Fox

#028 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#035 🐦 Ross's Goose

#039 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#040 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#044 🐦 Greater scaup

#046 🐦 Brent Goose

#049 🐦 Snowy Owl

#052 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#055 🐦 Sanderling

#056 🐦 Dunlin

#058 🐦 Red Knot

#060 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#061 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#062 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#063 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#065 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#072 🐦 Black Guillemot

#073 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#089 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#095 🐦 Yellow-billed Loon

#096 🐦 Common Loon

#101 🐦 Bald Eagle

#106 🐦 Willow Ptarmigan

#111 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#115 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#131 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#136 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#146 🐦 Red Phalarope

#147 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#153 🐦 Grey Plover

#162 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#176 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#179 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#188 🐦 American Robin

#190 🐦 Thick-billed Murre

#192 🐦 Sabine's Gull

Common

#009 🦌 Arctic Hare

#014 🦌 Muskrat

#015 🦌 Muskox

#017 🦌 Reindeer

#022 🐦 Common Redpoll

#027 🐦 Northern Pintail

#031 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#034 🐦 Snow Goose

#036 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#047 🐦 Canada goose

#048 🐦 Cackling Goose

#053 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#057 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#059 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#064 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#074 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#079 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#081 🐦 Common Raven

#082 🐦 Tundra Swan

#086 🐦 Horned Lark

#097 🐦 Pacific Loon

#098 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#099 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#107 🐦 Rock Ptarmigan

#113 🐦 Iceland Gull

#114 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#117 🐦 American Herring Gull

#142 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#151 🐦 Snow Bunting

#152 🐦 American Golden Plover

#171 🐦 Common Eider

#172 🐦 King Eider

#177 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#178 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#181 🐦 Arctic Tern

#195 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

Vagrants

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

#004 🦌 Northern Collared Lemming

#005 🦌 Palearctic Collared Lemming

#007 🦌 Ribbon Seal

#008 🦌 Nearctic Brown Lemming

#023 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#025 🐦 Razorbill

#032 🐦 Greylag Goose

#033 🐦 Pink-footed Goose

#038 🐦 Great Egret

#041 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#043 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#045 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#050 🐦 Bufflehead

#066 🐦 Spruce Grouse

#067 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#068 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#071 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#075 🐦 Killdeer

#076 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#077 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#080 🐦 Northern Flicker

#083 🐦 Gray Catbird

#084 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#085 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#088 🐦 Merlin

#090 🐦 Gyrfalcon

#091 🐦 American Kestrel

#092 🐦 American Coot

#100 🐦 Purple Finch

#104 🐦 Varied Thrush

#109 🐦 Short-billed Gull

#110 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#112 🐦 Glaucous-winged gull

#116 🐦 Slaty-backed Gull

#118 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#119 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#120 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#121 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#122 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#124 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#127 🐦 Surf Scoter

#128 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#129 🐦 Song Sparrow

#132 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#133 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#134 🐦 Hudsonian Whimbrel

#137 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#139 🐦 Osprey

#140 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#141 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#143 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#148 🐦 Pine Grosbeak

#149 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#150 🐦 Western Tanager

#154 🐦 Horned Grebe

#155 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#156 🐦 Boreal Chickadee

#157 🐦 Great Shearwater

#158 🐦 Common Grackle

#159 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#160 🐦 Ross's Gull

#164 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#166 🐦 Palm Warbler

#169 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#170 🐦 Mountain Bluebird

#174 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#175 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#180 🐦 Common Tern

#182 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#183 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#186 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#187 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#191 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#194 🐦 Golden-crowned Sparrow

Marine

Seen offshore.

#001 🦌 Bowhead whale

#003 🦌 Beluga

#010 🦌 Narwhal

#093 🐦 Northern Fulmar