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Palau wildlife

110 species in the Palau dex: 34 Common, 39 Uncommon, 33 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.

#011 🐦 Pacific Black Duck

#041 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#043 🐦 Oriental Plover

#057 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

Rare

#006 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#010 🐦 Northern Pintail

#017 🐦 Grey Heron · introduced

#019 🐦 Artamus leucorhynchos

#021 🐦 Tufted Duck

#027 🐦 Sanderling

#029 🐦 Broad-billed Sandpiper

#030 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#031 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#033 🐦 Ruff

#036 🐦 Great Knot

#040 🐦 Kentish Plover · introduced

#046 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#048 🐦 Oriental Cuckoo

#056 🐦 Oriental dollarbird

#059 🐦 Great Frigatebird

#061 🐦 Common snipe

#066 🐦 Gull-billed Tern · introduced

#067 🐦 Oriental Pratincole

#081 🐦 Grey Wagtail

#083 🐦 Gray-streaked Flycatcher · introduced

#086 🐦 Far Eastern Curlew

#087 🐦 Little Curlew

#090 🐦 Black-crowned night heron · introduced

#092 🐦 Sooty Tern

#096 🐦 Osprey

#105 🐦 Australasian Swamphen

#106 🐦 White-browed Crake

#116 🐦 Common Tern

#118 🐦 Little Tern

#128 🐦 Wandering Tattler

#142 🦎 Pacific Bluetail Skink

#146 🦎 Emerald Skink

Uncommon

#001 🦌 Wolf

#005 🦌 Pelew Flying Fox

#016 🐦 Great Egret

#018 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#026 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#034 🐦 Red-necked stint

#035 🐦 Long-toed Stint

#039 🐦 Palau Nightjar

#042 🐦 Greater Sand Plover

#044 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#045 🐦 White-winged Tern

#051 🐦 Little Egret

#052 🐦 Intermediate egret

#055 🐦 Blue-Faced Parrot-Finch

#062 🐦 Swinhoe's Snipe

#063 🐦 Common Moorhen

#069 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#070 🐦 Barn Swallow

#073 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#074 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#078 🐦 Giant White-eye

#082 🐦 Eastern Yellow Wagtail · introduced

#091 🐦 Bridled Tern

#095 🐦 Palau Ground Dove

#104 🐦 Grey Plover

#110 🐦 Palau Owl

#111 🐦 Slaty-legged Crake · introduced

#120 🐦 Brown Booby

#121 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#122 🐦 Greater Crested Tern

#124 🐦 Palau Kingfisher

#126 🐦 Grey-tailed Tattler

#127 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#129 🐦 Common Greenshank

#130 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#131 🐦 Common Redshank

#133 🐦 Terek Sandpiper

#139 🦎 Saltwater crocodile

#145 🦎 Common House Gecko · introduced

Common

#003 🦌 Domestic Cat

#008 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#009 🐦 Palau Swiftlet

#012 🐦 Black Noddy

#013 🐦 Brown Noddy

#014 🐦 Micronesian Starling

#024 🐦 Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

#037 🐦 Nicobar Pigeon

#047 🐦 Palau Cicadabird

#049 🐦 Micronesian Imperial-pigeon

#050 🐦 Eclectus parrot

#054 🐦 Pacific Reef Heron

#064 🐦 Buff-banded Rail

#065 🐦 Red Junglefowl · introduced

#068 🐦 White tern

#071 🐦 Palau Bush Warbler

#075 🐦 Chestnut Munia · introduced

#077 🐦 Micronesian Megapode

#079 🐦 Little Pied Cormorant

#084 🐦 Palau Flycatcher

#085 🐦 Micronesian Myzomela

#088 🐦 Whimbrel

#089 🐦 Rufous Night Heron

#094 🐦 Morningbird

#097 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow

#098 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#103 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#107 🐦 Palau Fruit-dove

#112 🐦 Palau Fantail

#117 🐦 Black-naped Tern

#123 🐦 Collared Kingfisher · introduced

#134 🐦 Dusky White-eye

#135 🐦 Citrine White-eye

#148 🐸 Cane Toad · introduced

Vagrants

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

#002 🦌 Polynesian Sheath-tailed Bat

#015 🐦 Pacific Swift

#020 🐦 White-breasted Woodswallow

#022 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#023 🐦 Striated Heron

#025 🐦 Brush Cuckoo

#028 🐦 Red Knot

#032 🐦 Little Stint

#053 🐦 Pied Heron

#058 🐦 Lesser frigatebird

#060 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#072 🐦 Asian Dowitcher

#076 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#080 🐦 Black Kite

#093 🐦 Spectacled Tern

#099 🐦 Red-tailed Tropicbird

#100 🐦 Great Cormorant

#101 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#102 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#113 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#114 🐦 Garganey

#115 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#119 🐦 Masked Booby

#125 🐦 Sacred Kingfisher

#132 🐦 Long-tailed Koel

#136 🦎 Palau Bevel-nosed Boa

#138 🐸 Palau Frog

#140 🦎 Palau Tree Snake

#141 🦎 Mangrove Skink

#144 🦎 Palau Ghost Gecko

#147 🦎 Micronesian Scaly-Toed Gecko

#149 🦎 Bennett’s long-tailed monitor

Marine

Seen offshore.

#004 🦌 Sperm Whale

#007 🦌 Spinner Dolphin

#038 🐦 Streaked Shearwater

#108 🐦 Tropical Shearwater

#109 🐦 Wedge-tailed shearwater

#137 🦎 Green Turtle

#143 🦎 Hawksbill turtle