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Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha wildlife

39 species in the Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha dex: 10 Common, 17 Uncommon, 9 Rare, 3 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.

#010 🐦 Common Swift

#015 🐦 Inaccessible Island Rail

#041 🐦 Kelp Gull

Rare

#013 🐦 Squacco Heron

#014 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#016 🐦 Cattle Egret

#035 🐦 Gough Moorhen

#048 🐦 Inaccessible Island Finch

#049 🐦 Nightingale Island Finch

#050 🐦 Wilkins's Finch

#059 🐦 Common Diving Petrel · introduced

#078 🐦 Gough Finch

Uncommon

#001 🦌 Domestic Cat

#003 🦌 Southern Elephant Seal

#021 🐦 Rock Dove

#023 🐦 Yellow Canary

#027 🐦 Common Waxbill

#028 🐦 Northern rockhopper penguin

#030 🐦 Red Fody

#038 🐦 Zebra Dove

#044 🐦 Java Sparrow · introduced

#047 🐦 Tristan Thrush

#061 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#082 🐦 Arctic Tern

#086 🐦 Brown Booby

#087 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#094 🦎 Aldabra Giant Tortoise

#095 🦎 House Gecko

#096 🐸 Gray's Stream Frog

Common

#005 🐦 Common myna

#006 🐦 Black Noddy · introduced

#007 🐦 Brown Noddy

#031 🐦 Ascension Frigatebird

#039 🐦 White tern

#055 🐦 Sooty Tern

#060 🐦 Red-billed Tropicbird

#079 🐦 Brown skua

#083 🐦 Antarctic Tern

#085 🐦 Masked Booby

Vagrants

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

#004 🦌 Pantropical Spotted Dolphin

#009 🐦 Little Swift

#011 🐦 Great Egret

#012 🐦 Grey Heron

#018 🐦 Sanderling

#020 🐦 St. Helena Plover

#022 🐦 Corn Crake

#026 🐦 Little Egret

#029 🐦 Red-footed Falcon

#034 🐦 Common Moorhen

#036 🐦 Tristan Moorhen

#040 🐦 Barn Swallow

#042 🐦 Franklin's gull

#043 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#051 🐦 Whimbrel

#063 🐦 Light-mantled Albatross

#064 🐦 American Golden Plover

#065 🐦 Grey Plover

#069 🐦 Red-necked Spurfowl

#070 🐦 Trindade Petrel

#077 🐦 Sand Martin

#080 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#081 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#084 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#088 🐦 Indian yellow-nosed albatross

#091 🐦 Grey-Headed Albatross

#093 🐦 Spotted Redshank

Marine

Seen offshore.

#002 🦌 Humpback Whale

#008 🐦 Kerguelen Petrel

#017 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#019 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#024 🐦 Tristan Albatross

#025 🐦 Wandering albatross

#032 🐦 White-bellied Storm-petrel

#033 🐦 Black-bellied Storm-petrel · introduced

#037 🐦 Grey-Backed Storm Petrel · introduced

#045 🐦 Southern Giant Petrel · introduced

#046 🐦 Northern Giant Petrel

#052 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#053 🐦 Band-rumped storm-petrel · introduced

#054 🐦 Leach's Storm Petrel

#056 🐦 Salvin's Prion

#057 🐦 Broad-billed Prion

#058 🐦 White-faced Storm-petrel · introduced

#062 🐦 Sooty Albatross

#066 🐦 White-chinned Petrel

#067 🐦 Grey Petrel

#068 🐦 Spectacled Petrel

#071 🐦 Atlantic Petrel

#072 🐦 Great-winged Petrel

#073 🐦 Soft-plumaged Petrel

#074 🐦 Little Shearwater · introduced

#075 🐦 Great Shearwater

#076 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#089 🐦 Shy Albatross

#090 🐦 Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross

#092 🐦 Black-browed Albatross