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Seychelles wildlife

123 species in the Seychelles dex: 35 Common, 45 Uncommon, 37 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.

#041 🐦 Ruff

#044 🐦 Madagascar Nightjar

#079 🐦 Eleonora's Falcon

#083 🐦 Eurasian Hobby

#097 🐦 Black-winged Pratincole

#188 🦎 Radiated tortoise

Rare

#001 🦌 Seychelles Free-tailed Bat

#015 🐦 Comoro Blue-Pigeon

#019 🐦 Red-throated Pipit

#020 🐦 Tree pipit

#022 🐦 Common Swift

#025 🐦 Purple Heron

#026 🐦 Malagasy Pond Heron

#027 🐦 Squacco Heron

#040 🐦 Little Stint

#045 🐦 Malagasy Coucal

#047 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#056 🐦 Madagascar Cisticola

#063 🐦 Pied Crow

#064 🐦 House crow · introduced

#065 🐦 Common Cuckoo

#066 🐦 Common house martin

#076 🐦 Broad-billed Roller

#077 🐦 Amur Falcon

#081 🐦 Malagasy Kestrel

#090 🐦 Common snipe

#098 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#102 🐦 Barn Swallow

#103 🐦 Caspian Tern

#113 🐦 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

#115 🐦 White Wagtail

#125 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#137 🐦 Great Cormorant

#171 🐦 Malagasy Sacred Ibis

#176 🐦 Barn Owl

#179 🐦 Aldabra White-eye

#180 🐦 Madagascar White-eye

#185 🦎 Yellow Gecko

#187 🦎 Tiger Chameleon

#199 🦎 Seychelles Wolf Snake

#203 🦎 Aldabra Day Gecko

#208 🐸 Seychelles Frog

#212 🦎 Wright's Mabuya

Uncommon

#003 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#008 🦌 Tailess Tenrec

#011 🐦 Seychelles Warbler

#012 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#036 🐦 Sanderling

#038 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#048 🐦 Greater Sand Plover

#051 🐦 White-winged Tern

#054 🐦 Souimanga Sunbird

#058 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#061 🐦 Seychelles Black Parrot

#068 🐦 Aldabra Drongo

#069 🐦 Crab-Plover

#070 🐦 White-throated Rail

#071 🐦 Little Egret

#075 🐦 Common Waxbill

#084 🐦 Aldabra Fody

#105 🐦 Malagasy Bulbul

#110 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#120 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#122 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#130 🐦 Grey Francolin

#131 🐦 Seychelles Scops Owl

#133 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#136 🐦 Red-tailed Tropicbird

#143 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#153 🐦 Garganey

#156 🐦 Roseate Tern

#157 🐦 Common Tern

#159 🐦 Black-naped Tern · introduced

#161 🐦 Saunders's Tern

#163 🐦 Masked Booby

#164 🐦 Brown Booby

#168 🐦 Lesser Crested Tern

#172 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#178 🐦 Terek Sandpiper

#181 🐦 Seychelles White-eye

#182 🦎 Marbled Leaf-toed Gecko

#183 🦎 Bronze gecko

#184 🦎 Dwarf Bronze Gecko

#186 🦎 Aldabra Giant Tortoise

#193 🦎 Stump-toed Gecko · introduced

#206 🐸 Mascarene Grass Frog

#207 🐸 Gardiner's Seychelles Frog

#210 🐸 Seychelles Treefrog

Common

#005 🦌 Seychelles Flying Fox

#010 🐦 Common myna · introduced

#013 🐦 Seychelles Swiftlet

#014 🐦 Seychelles Blue Pigeon

#017 🐦 Brown Noddy

#018 🐦 Lesser Noddy

#024 🐦 Grey Heron

#028 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#032 🐦 Cattle Egret

#034 🐦 Striated Heron

#053 🐦 Seychelles Sunbird

#059 🐦 Seychelles Magpie-robin

#078 🐦 Seychelles Kestrel

#086 🐦 Red Fody · introduced

#087 🐦 Seychelles Fody

#088 🐦 Lesser frigatebird

#089 🐦 Great Frigatebird

#093 🐦 Common Moorhen

#096 🐦 Zebra Dove · introduced

#099 🐦 White tern

#104 🐦 Seychelles Bulbul

#119 🐦 Malagasy Turtle Dove

#121 🐦 Whimbrel

#127 🐦 Bridled Tern

#128 🐦 Sooty Tern

#135 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#144 🐦 Grey Plover

#165 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#167 🐦 Seychelles Paradise Flycatcher

#169 🐦 Greater Crested Tern

#173 🐦 Common Greenshank

#196 🦎 Common House Gecko · introduced

#204 🦎 Stripeless Day Gecko

#205 🦎 Seychelles Giant Day Gecko

#211 🦎 Seychelles Mabuya

Vagrants

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

#002 🦌 Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat

#004 🦌 Aldabra Flying Fox

#006 🦌 Pantropical Spotted Dolphin

#016 🐦 Northern Pintail

#021 🐦 Little Swift

#023 🐦 Great Egret

#029 🐦 Tufted Duck

#030 🐦 Ferruginous Duck

#031 🐦 Eurasian Bittern

#033 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#035 🐦 Greater Short-toed Lark

#037 🐦 Dunlin

#039 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#042 🐦 Temminck's Stint

#043 🐦 European Nightjar

#046 🐦 Caspian Plover

#049 🐦 Lesser sand-plover

#050 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#052 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#055 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#057 🐦 Jacobin Cuckoo

#060 🐦 European Roller

#062 🐦 Black Parrot

#067 🐦 White-faced Whistling-Duck

#072 🐦 Intermediate egret

#073 🐦 Ortolan Bunting

#074 🐦 Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin

#080 🐦 Lesser Kestrel

#082 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#085 🐦 Comoros Fody

#091 🐦 Great Snipe

#092 🐦 Lesser Moorhen

#094 🐦 Red Junglefowl · introduced

#095 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#100 🐦 Eurasian Oystercatcher

#101 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#106 🐦 Red-backed Shrike

#107 🐦 Kelp Gull

#108 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#109 🐦 Franklin's gull

#111 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#112 🐦 Gadwall

#114 🐦 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush

#116 🐦 Grey Wagtail

#117 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#118 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#123 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#124 🐦 Isabelline Wheatear

#126 🐦 Pied Wheatear

#129 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#132 🐦 Osprey

#134 🐦 Red-billed Tropicbird

#138 🐦 Mascarene Martin

#139 🐦 Greater Flamingo

#140 🐦 Common Redstart

#141 🐦 African Spoonbill

#142 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#145 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet

#146 🐦 Barau's Petrel

#149 🐦 Sand Martin

#150 🐦 Greater Painted-snipe

#151 🐦 Rufous Vanga

#152 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#154 🐦 Brown skua

#155 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#158 🐦 White-Cheeked Tern

#160 🐦 Little Tern

#162 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#166 🐦 Alpine Swift

#170 🐦 Sacred Ibis

#174 🐦 Green sandpiper

#175 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#177 🐦 Spur-winged Lapwing

#191 🦎 Aldabra Snake-Eyed Skink

#194 🐸 Stejneger's Caecilian

#195 🐸 Indian Ocean Caecilian

#197 🐸 Sharp-nosed Caecilia

#198 🦎 Seychelles House Snake

#200 🦎 West African Mud Turtle

#201 🦎 Yellow-bellied mud turtle

#202 🦎 East African black mud turtle

#209 🐸 Thomasset's Frog

#213 🦎 Seychelles Surprise Gecko

#214 🦎 Northern Seychelles Tail-pad Gecko

Marine

Seen offshore.

#007 🦌 Spinner Dolphin

#009 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#147 🐦 Tropical Shearwater

#148 🐦 Wedge-tailed shearwater

#189 🦎 Loggerhead

#190 🦎 Green Turtle

#192 🦎 Hawksbill turtle