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Sao Tome and Principe wildlife

100 species in the Sao Tome and Principe dex: 28 Common, 37 Uncommon, 31 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.

#039 🐦 Sanderling

#042 🐦 Ruff

#091 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#125 🐦 Grey Plover

Rare

#001 🦌 Mona Monkey

#012 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#019 🐦 Sao Tome Shorttail

#023 🐦 Black Noddy · introduced

#024 🐦 Brown Noddy

#032 🐦 Purple Heron

#033 🐦 Squacco Heron

#034 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#044 🐦 Pied Kingfisher

#045 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#060 🐦 Sao Tome Grosbeak

#068 🐦 Little Egret

#081 🐦 Lesser Moorhen

#084 🐦 Barn Swallow

#089 🐦 Sao Tome Fiscal

#100 🐦 Yellow-billed Stork

#102 🐦 Chestnut-breasted Nigrita

#107 🐦 Bridled Tern

#108 🐦 Sooty Tern

#111 🐦 Principe Scops Owl

#114 🐦 House sparrow

#119 🐦 Village Weaver

#126 🐦 Allen's Gallinule

#130 🐦 Red-necked Spurfowl

#141 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#147 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#148 🐦 Common Greenshank

#150 🐦 Principe Thrush

#157 🐦 Principe White-eye

#173 🦎 Sao Tome Wood Snake

#177 🐸 Island Caecilian

Uncommon

#003 🦌 African Civet

#005 🦌 African Straw-colored Fruit Bat

#017 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#018 🐦 Red-Headed Lovebird

#020 🐦 Principe Sunbird

#035 🐦 Sao Tome Ibis

#038 🐦 Striated Heron

#054 🐦 Rock Dove

#056 🐦 Sao Tome Olive Pigeon

#058 🐦 Harlequin Quail

#063 🐦 Olive Sunbird

#066 🐦 Velvet-mantled Drongo

#067 🐦 Giant Sunbird

#072 🐦 White-winged Widowbird

#073 🐦 Golden-backed Bishop

#074 🐦 Black-winged Red Bishop

#082 🐦 Common Moorhen

#083 🐦 Blue-breasted Kingfisher

#085 🐦 Dohrn's Thrush-Babbler

#087 🐦 Principe Starling

#088 🐦 Splendid Starling

#094 🐦 Long-tailed Cormorant

#103 🐦 Whimbrel

#109 🐦 Sao Tome Oriole

#112 🐦 Sao Tome Scops Owl

#132 🐦 Red-headed Quelea

#140 🐦 Brown Booby

#145 🐦 African Green Pigeon

#146 🐦 Sao Tome Green Pigeon

#151 🐦 Barn Owl

#152 🐦 Blue Waxbill

#153 🐦 Pin-tailed Whydah

#156 🐦 Sao Tome White-eye

#158 🐦 Principe Speirops

#166 🦎 House Gecko

#179 🦎 Speckle-lipped Mabuya

#180 🦎 São Tomé Skink

Common

#014 🦌 Mauritian Tomb Bat

#021 🐦 Newton's Sunbird

#026 🐦 Little Swift

#036 🐦 Cattle Egret

#049 🐦 African Emerald Cuckoo

#053 🐦 Lemon Dove

#055 🐦 Island Bronze-naped Pigeon

#057 🐦 Malachite Kingfisher

#061 🐦 Yellow-fronted Canary

#062 🐦 Principe Seedeater

#064 🐦 African Palm Swift

#069 🐦 Western reef heron

#071 🐦 Common Waxbill

#092 🐦 Bronze mannikin

#096 🐦 Black Kite

#106 🐦 Chestnut-winged Starling

#116 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#120 🐦 Giant Weaver

#121 🐦 Principe Weaver

#122 🐦 Sao Tome Weaver

#123 🐦 Southern Masked Weaver

#127 🐦 Sao Tome Prinia

#129 🐦 Grey Parrot

#135 🐦 Laughing Dove

#143 🐦 Sao Tome Paradise Flycatcher

#149 🐦 Sao Tome Thrush

#155 🐦 Sao Tome Spinetail

#159 🐦 Black-capped Speirops

Vagrants

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

#002 🦌 Little Free-tailed Bat

#004 🦌 São Tomé Shrew

#006 🦌 Noack's Roundleaf Bat

#007 🦌 Saõ Tomé Leaf-nosed Bat

#009 🦌 Newton's Long-fingered Bat

#010 🦌 Sao Tomé Collared Fruit Bat

#011 🦌 Little Collared Fruit Bat

#013 🦌 Pantropical Spotted Dolphin

#015 🐦 Great Reed Warbler

#016 🐦 Sedge Warbler

#022 🐦 Mallard

#025 🐦 Plain-backed Pipit

#027 🐦 Common Swift

#028 🐦 Pallid Swift

#029 🐦 Great Egret

#030 🐦 Grey Heron

#031 🐦 Black-Headed Heron

#037 🐦 Eurasian stone-curlew

#040 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#041 🐦 Little Stint

#043 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#046 🐦 Greater Sand Plover

#047 🐦 Black Tern

#048 🐦 Diederik Cuckoo

#050 🐦 Klaas's Cuckoo

#051 🐦 White stork

#052 🐦 Jacobin Cuckoo

#059 🐦 African Crake

#065 🐦 Common house martin

#070 🐦 Intermediate egret

#075 🐦 Broad-billed Roller

#076 🐦 Lanner Falcon

#077 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#078 🐦 Red-footed Falcon

#079 🐦 Collared Flycatcher

#080 🐦 Ascension Frigatebird

#086 🐦 European Storm-Petrel

#090 🐦 Franklin's gull

#093 🐦 Common Nightingale

#095 🐦 Yellow-billed Kite

#097 🐦 White Wagtail

#098 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#099 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#101 🐦 African Pygmy-goose

#104 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#105 🐦 Cape Verde Storm-Petrel

#110 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#113 🐦 Osprey

#115 🐦 Red-billed Tropicbird

#117 🐦 Willow Warbler

#118 🐦 Eurasian Spoonbill

#124 🐦 Vitelline Masked Weaver

#128 🐦 Grey-rumped Swallow

#131 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#133 🐦 African Skimmer

#134 🐦 Whinchat

#136 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#137 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#138 🐦 Common Tern

#139 🐦 Arctic Tern

#142 🐦 Garden Warbler

#144 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#154 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#160 🦎 Boaedon bedriagae

#161 🦎 Boaedon mendesi

#164 🦎 Principe Green Snake

#165 🦎 Greeff’s Giant Gecko

#167 🐸 Moller's Gulf Frog

#168 🐸 São Tomé Giant Reed Frog

#170 🦎 Annobon Dwarf Gecko

#171 🦎 São Tomé Cobra

#172 🦎 São Tomé Leaf-litter Skink

#174 🐸 Peters' River Frog

#175 🐸 Calm Puddle Frog

#176 🐸 Newton's Grassland Frog

#178 🦎 Adamastor Skink

Marine

Seen offshore.

#008 🦌 Humpback Whale

#162 🦎 Loggerhead

#163 🦎 Hawksbill turtle

#169 🦎 Olive Ridley