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Sierra Leone wildlife

399 species in the Sierra Leone dex: 118 Common, 144 Uncommon, 119 Rare, 18 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.

#038 🐦 White-breasted Guineafowl

#063 🐦 Goliath Heron

#094 🐦 Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill

#108 🐦 Plain Nightjar

#140 🐦 Yellow-throated Cuckoo

#165 🐦 Croaking Cisticola

#223 🐦 Common Waxbill

#227 🐦 Yellow-crowned Bishop

#245 🐦 Common Kestrel

#282 🐦 Wire-tailed Swallow

#304 🐦 Black-bellied Firefinch

#327 🐦 Common Nightingale

#330 🐦 Bat Hawk

#382 🐦 Black-faced Quail-Finch

#432 🐦 Senegal Parrot

#490 🐦 Eurasian Blackcap

#495 🐦 Little Grebe

#507 🐦 White-crested Tiger Heron

Rare

119

#001 🦌 Sooty Mangabey

#002 🦌 Campbell's Monkey

#008 🦌 Jouvenet's Shrew

#010 🦌 African Giant Shrew

#018 🦌 Liberian Forest Hybomys

#027 🦌 Western Red Colobus

#033 🐦 Sedge Warbler

#037 🐦 Red-Headed Lovebird

#042 🐦 Black Crake

#044 🐦 African Darter

#046 🐦 Western Violet-backed Sunbird

#047 🐦 Grey-chinned Sunbird

#050 🐦 Plain-backed Pipit

#052 🐦 Tree pipit

#056 🐦 Narina Trogon

#059 🐦 White-rumped Swift

#060 🐦 Cassin's Hawk-eagle

#064 🐦 Black-Headed Heron

#065 🐦 Purple Heron

#067 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#068 🐦 Yellow-throated Greenbul

#072 🐦 Black-headed Rufous Warbler

#082 🐦 Greyish Eagle-owl

#097 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#100 🐦 Golden Greenbul

#103 🐦 Yellow-browed Camaroptera

#107 🐦 Long-tailed Nightjar

#109 🐦 Standard-winged Nightjar

#111 🐦 Fiery-necked Nightjar

#122 🐦 Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo

#127 🐦 Brown-chested Alethe

#132 🐦 Black Tern

#134 🐦 Many-colored Bushshrike

#153 🐦 Western Banded Snake Eagle

#154 🐦 Brown Snake Eagle

#158 🐦 Short-winged Cisticola

#159 🐦 Singing Cisticola

#161 🐦 Black-backed Cisticola

#164 🐦 Winding Cisticola

#170 🐦 Afep Pigeon

#178 🐦 White-bellied Kingfisher

#179 🐦 White-crowned Robin-Chat

#184 🐦 Yellow-bearded Greenbul

#196 🐦 Common house martin

#198 🐦 Cardinal Woodpecker

#200 🐦 Melancholy Woodpecker

#201 🐦 Brown-backed Woodpecker

#207 🐦 Sabine's Puffback

#212 🐦 Black-winged Kite

#213 🐦 African Blue Flycatcher

#220 🐦 Senegal Eremomela

#233 🐦 Plain Greenbul

#241 🐦 Grey Kestrel

#243 🐦 African Hobby

#244 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#250 🐦 Common snipe

#253 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#257 🐦 White-backed Night Heron

#258 🐦 Crested Guineafowl

#260 🐦 Bush Petronia

#265 🐦 Striped Kingfisher

#269 🐦 African Fish Eagle

#273 🐦 Ayres's Hawk-eagle

#274 🐦 Wahlberg's Eagle

#276 🐦 Nkulengu Rail

#277 🐦 Melodious Warbler

#284 🐦 Black Dwarf Hornbill

#285 🐦 Caspian Tern

#293 🐦 Rufous-winged Illadopsis

#296 🐦 Greater Honeyguide

#299 🐦 Willcocks's Honeyguide

#311 🐦 Splendid Starling

#313 🐦 Lowland Sooty Boubou

#314 🐦 Tropical Boubou

#318 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#328 🐦 Double-toothed Barbet

#329 🐦 Vieillot's Barbet

#334 🐦 Grey-headed Bushshrike

#336 🐦 Lagden's Bushshrike

#337 🐦 Gola Malimbe

#351 🐦 Blue-moustached Bee-eater

#361 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#363 🐦 Grey Tit-Flycatcher

#375 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#377 🐦 Chestnut-winged Starling

#380 🐦 Black-winged Oriole

#386 🐦 Brown-eared Woodpecker

#392 🐦 Pink-Backed Pelican

#395 🐦 European Honey Buzzard

#399 🐦 Tit-hylia

#401 🐦 White-throated Greenbul

#407 🐦 African Pitta

#410 🐦 Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye

#413 🐦 Spur-winged Goose

#421 🐦 Compact Weaver

#422 🐦 Yellow-mantled Weaver

#429 🐦 Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird

#438 🐦 Red-billed Helmetshrike

#448 🐦 Stone Partridge

#454 🐦 Yellow-winged Pytilia

#455 🐦 Red-headed Quelea

#458 🐦 Black Scimitarbill

#460 🐦 Greater Painted-snipe

#461 🐦 African Skimmer

#469 🐦 Sierra Leone Prinia

#476 🐦 Western Bluebill

#479 🐦 Crowned Eagle

#482 🐦 Common Tern

#491 🐦 Garden Warbler

#493 🐦 Lemon-bellied Crombec

#504 🐦 Lesser Crested Tern

#508 🐦 Western Yellow-billed Barbet

#511 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#513 🐦 Green sandpiper

#522 🐦 Barn Owl

#528 🐦 Brown Nightjar

#529 🐦 Cameroon Indigobird

#530 🐦 Village Indigobird

#534 🐦 Togo Paradise Whydah

Uncommon

144

#004 🦌 Green Monkey

#013 🦌 African Straw-colored Fruit Bat

#017 🦌 Common Hippopotamus

#019 🦌 Allen's Hylomyscus

#021 🦌 Rusty-bellied Brush-furred Rat

#022 🦌 Edwards' Malacomys

#025 🦌 Southern African Pygmy Mouse

#028 🦌 West African Praomys

#034 🐦 Eurasian Reed Warbler

#036 🐦 African Jacana

#039 🐦 Shining-blue Kingfisher

#048 🐦 Little Green Sunbird

#061 🐦 Great Egret

#066 🐦 Squacco Heron

#073 🐦 Senegal Batis

#074 🐦 Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher

#076 🐦 Green-tailed Bristlebill

#077 🐦 Red-tailed Bristlebill

#086 🐦 Yellow-spotted Barbet

#088 🐦 Senegal Thick-knee

#089 🐦 Grasshopper Buzzard

#092 🐦 Brown-cheeked Hornbill

#095 🐦 Sanderling

#102 🐦 Olive-green Camaroptera

#104 🐦 Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike

#105 🐦 Little Green Woodpecker

#114 🐦 Red-breasted Swallow

#116 🐦 Black-throated Coucal

#119 🐦 Black-casqued Hornbill

#123 🐦 Pied Kingfisher

#125 🐦 Buff-throated Sunbird

#129 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#135 🐦 Orange-breasted Bushshrike

#136 🐦 Fire-bellied Woodpecker

#138 🐦 Diederik Cuckoo

#144 🐦 Violet-backed Starling

#148 🐦 Johanna's Sunbird

#150 🐦 Superb Sunbird

#167 🐦 Levaillant's Cuckoo

#171 🐦 Abyssinian Roller

#172 🐦 Blue-bellied Roller

#180 🐦 Snowy-crowned Robin-chat

#183 🐦 Red-tailed Greenbul

#186 🐦 Yellow-fronted Canary

#188 🐦 Black Cuckoo

#190 🐦 Red-chested Cuckoo

#191 🐦 Blue-throated Brown Sunbird

#193 🐦 Green-headed Sunbird

#195 🐦 Fraser's Sunbird

#197 🐦 White-faced Whistling-Duck

#199 🐦 African Grey Woodpecker

#205 🐦 Sharpe's Drongo

#208 🐦 Black Heron

#211 🐦 Intermediate egret

#217 🐦 Gosling's Bunting

#222 🐦 Forest Scrub Robin

#224 🐦 Orange-cheeked waxbill

#228 🐦 Red-collared Widowbird

#230 🐦 Black-winged Red Bishop

#231 🐦 Yellow-mantled Widowbird

#232 🐦 Ansorge's Greenbul

#234 🐦 Little Grey Greenbul

#238 🐦 Blue-throated Roller

#239 🐦 Dybowski's Twinspot

#246 🐦 European Pied Flycatcher

#247 🐦 White-browed Forest Flycatcher

#248 🐦 Fraser's Forest Flycatcher

#259 🐦 Naked-faced Barbet

#272 🐦 Red-winged Warbler

#278 🐦 Pied-winged Swallow

#283 🐦 White-crested Hornbill

#288 🐦 Copper-tailed Starling

#289 🐦 Oriole Warbler

#290 🐦 Blackcap Illadopsis

#291 🐦 Brown Illadopsis

#292 🐦 Puvel's Illadopsis

#294 🐦 Pale-breasted Illadopsis

#297 🐦 Spotted Honeyguide

#301 🐦 African Pygmy-kingfisher

#302 🐦 Spotted Greenbul

#305 🐦 African Firefinch

#310 🐦 Emerald Starling

#322 🐦 Magpie Mannikin

#323 🐦 Long-crested Eagle

#324 🐦 Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill

#326 🐦 African Grey Hornbill

#331 🐦 Yellow-throated Longclaw

#333 🐦 Kemp's Longbill

#338 🐦 Crested Malimbe

#340 🐦 Red-headed Malimbe

#342 🐦 African Shrike-flycatcher

#343 🐦 Giant Kingfisher

#344 🐦 Northern Black Flycatcher

#346 🐦 Moustached Grass Warbler

#349 🐦 Black Bee-eater

#354 🐦 Little Bee-eater

#360 🐦 Cassin's Flycatcher

#365 🐦 White-tailed Ant Thrush

#369 🐦 Chestnut-breasted Nigrita

#378 🐦 African Golden Oriole

#385 🐦 Osprey

#387 🐦 Buff-spotted Woodpecker

#393 🐦 Latham's Francolin

#400 🐦 Capuchin Babbler

#402 🐦 Icterine Greenbul

#403 🐦 Leaf-love

#405 🐦 Willow Warbler

#406 🐦 White-necked Rockfowl

#409 🐦 Red-cheeked Wattle-eye

#414 🐦 Maxwell's Black Weaver

#424 🐦 Grey Plover

#425 🐦 Egyptian Plover

#426 🐦 African Finfoot

#439 🐦 White-crested Helmetshrike

#444 🐦 Timneh Parrot

#445 🐦 Ahanta Francolin

#447 🐦 Hartlaub's Duck

#453 🐦 Crimson Seedcracker

#457 🐦 Sabine's Spinetail

#459 🐦 Sand Martin

#465 🐦 White-spotted Flufftail

#467 🐦 Whinchat

#470 🐦 Hamerkop

#472 🐦 Rufous Fishing Owl

#474 🐦 Rufous-sided Broadbill

#488 🐦 Vinaceous Dove

#489 🐦 African Wood Owl

#494 🐦 Green Crombec

#496 🐦 Mottled Swift

#500 🐦 Black-crowned Tchagra

#502 🐦 African Paradise Flycatcher

#505 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#510 🐦 Hairy-breasted Barbet

#512 🐦 Common Greenshank

#514 🐦 Common Redshank

#525 🐦 White-crowned Lapwing

#526 🐦 African Wattled Lapwing

#532 🐦 Pin-tailed Whydah

#535 🐦 African Yellow White-eye

#536 🦎 Red-headed agama

#537 🦎 Graceful Chameleon

#538 🦎 West African crocodile

#539 🦎 House Gecko

#540 🦎 Nile Monitor

Common

118

#005 🦌 African Civet

#007 🦌 Northern Giant Pouched Rat

#014 🦌 Patas Monkey

#024 🦌 Natal Mastomys

#030 🦌 Bushbuck

#035 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#040 🐦 Fire-crested Alethe

#045 🐦 Mangrove Sunbird

#055 🐦 Sharpe's Apalis

#057 🐦 Little Swift

#058 🐦 Common Swift

#062 🐦 Grey Heron

#070 🐦 Honeyguide Greenbul

#075 🐦 Grey-headed Bristlebill

#079 🐦 Hadada Ibis

#085 🐦 Cattle Egret

#090 🐦 Red-necked Buzzard

#091 🐦 Striated Heron

#093 🐦 Piping Hornbill

#101 🐦 Green-backed camaroptera

#113 🐦 Lesser Striped Swallow

#118 🐦 Senegal Coucal

#120 🐦 Yellow-casqued hornbill

#124 🐦 Blue malkoha

#133 🐦 Simple Greenbul

#139 🐦 African Emerald Cuckoo

#141 🐦 Klaas's Cuckoo

#143 🐦 African Woolly-necked Stork

#145 🐦 Olive-bellied Sunbird

#146 🐦 Splendid Sunbird

#147 🐦 Copper Sunbird

#151 🐦 Variable Sunbird

#155 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#160 🐦 Red-faced Cisticola

#163 🐦 Whistling Cisticola

#168 🐦 Western Bronze-naped Pigeon

#169 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#175 🐦 Pied Crow

#176 🐦 Great Blue Turaco

#177 🐦 Malachite Kingfisher

#181 🐦 Western Plantain-eater

#182 🐦 Western Bearded Greenbul

#192 🐦 Olive Sunbird

#194 🐦 African Palm Swift

#202 🐦 Fork-tailed Drongo

#203 🐦 Shining Drongo

#204 🐦 Velvet-mantled Drongo

#206 🐦 Northern Puffback

#209 🐦 Little Egret

#210 🐦 Western reef heron

#235 🐦 Yellow-whiskered Greenbul

#236 🐦 Little Greenbul

#237 🐦 Broad-billed Roller

#255 🐦 Rock Pratincole

#261 🐦 Palm-nut Vulture

#264 🐦 Chocolate-backed Kingfisher

#266 🐦 Grey-headed Kingfisher

#267 🐦 Blue-breasted Kingfisher

#268 🐦 Woodland Kingfisher

#270 🐦 Collared Sunbird

#279 🐦 Red-chested Swallow

#280 🐦 White-bibbed Swallow

#281 🐦 Barn Swallow

#286 🐦 Green Hylia

#303 🐦 Lizard Buzzard

#307 🐦 Red-billed Firefinch

#315 🐦 Turati's Boubou

#316 🐦 Northern Fiscal

#320 🐦 Black-and-white Mannikin

#321 🐦 Bronze mannikin

#325 🐦 Congo Pied Hornbill

#332 🐦 Grey Longbill

#339 🐦 Blue-billed Malimbe

#341 🐦 Red-vented Malimbe

#347 🐦 White-throated Bee-eater

#353 🐦 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

#355 🐦 Long-tailed Cormorant

#356 🐦 Black Kite

#357 🐦 African Pied Wagtail

#359 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#364 🐦 Hooded Vulture

#368 🐦 Western Nicator

#370 🐦 Grey-headed Nigrita

#373 🐦 Whimbrel

#379 🐦 Western Oriole

#391 🐦 Northern Grey-headed Sparrow

#396 🐦 Preuss's Swallow

#411 🐦 Brown-throated Wattle-eye

#412 🐦 West African Wattle-eye

#416 🐦 Olive-naped Weaver

#417 🐦 Chestnut-and-black Weaver

#418 🐦 Village Weaver

#427 🐦 Red-rumped Tinkerbird

#428 🐦 Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

#430 🐦 Speckled Tinkerbird

#431 🐦 Yellow-throated Tinkerbird

#434 🐦 African Harrier-hawk

#437 🐦 Tawny-flanked Prinia

#441 🐦 Square-tailed Saw-wing

#442 🐦 Fanti Saw-wing

#446 🐦 Double-spurred Francolin

#452 🐦 Common Bulbul

#477 🐦 Laughing Dove

#478 🐦 Slender-billed Greenbul

#484 🐦 Western Forest Robin

#485 🐦 Finsch's Rufous Thrush

#486 🐦 Red-eyed Dove

#497 🐦 Yellow-billed Turaco

#498 🐦 Guinea Turaco

#501 🐦 Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher

#503 🐦 West African Crested Tern

#506 🐦 Swamp Palm Bulbul

#509 🐦 African Green Pigeon

#515 🐦 Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher

#518 🐦 African Thrush

#519 🐦 Blue-spotted Wood Dove

#520 🐦 Blue-headed Wood Dove

#521 🐦 Tambourine Dove

Vagrants

141

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

#003 🦌 Diana Monkey

#006 🦌 Forest Giant Pouched Rat

#009 🦌 Nigerian Shrew

#011 🦌 Fraser's Musk Shrew

#012 🦌 Therese's Shrew

#015 🦌 Fire-footed Rope Squirrel

#016 🦌 Northern Savanna Gerbil

#020 🦌 Typical Lemniscomys

#023 🦌 Reddish-white Mastomys

#026 🦌 Peters's Mouse

#029 🦌 White-winged Serotine

#031 🦌 Rudd's Bristle-furred Rat

#032 🐦 Great Reed Warbler

#041 🐦 Orange-breasted Waxbill

#043 🐦 African Openbill

#049 🐦 Red-throated Pipit

#051 🐦 Long-billed Pipit

#053 🐦 Yellow-breasted Apalis

#054 🐦 Black-capped Apalis

#069 🐦 African Cuckoo-hawk

#071 🐦 Black Crowned Crane

#078 🐦 Marsh Tchagra

#080 🐦 Olive Ibis

#081 🐦 Pale Flycatcher

#083 🐦 Verreaux's Eagle-owl

#084 🐦 Fraser's Eagle-owl

#087 🐦 Yellow-billed Oxpecker

#096 🐦 Dunlin

#098 🐦 Little Stint

#099 🐦 Ruff

#106 🐦 Fine-spotted Woodpecker

#110 🐦 Swamp Nightjar

#112 🐦 Freckled Nightjar

#115 🐦 Black Coucal

#117 🐦 Blue-headed Coucal

#121 🐦 Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo

#126 🐦 Scarlet-chested Sunbird

#128 🐦 Kentish Plover

#130 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#131 🐦 White-winged Tern

#137 🐦 Grey-headed Gull

#142 🐦 Abdim's Stork

#149 🐦 Beautiful Sunbird

#152 🐦 Beaudouin's Snake Eagle

#156 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#157 🐦 Chattering Cisticola

#162 🐦 Zitting Cisticola

#166 🐦 Great Spotted Cuckoo

#173 🐦 Blue Cuckooshrike

#174 🐦 White-breasted Cuckooshrike

#185 🐦 West African Seedeater

#187 🐦 Common Cuckoo

#189 🐦 African Cuckoo

#214 🐦 Dusky Crested-flycatcher

#215 🐦 Brown-rumped Bunting

#216 🐦 Cabanis's Bunting

#218 🐦 Saddle-billed Stork

#219 🐦 Rufous-crowned Eremomela

#221 🐦 Chestnut-capped Flycatcher

#225 🐦 Black-rumped waxbill

#226 🐦 African Silverbill

#229 🐦 Northern Red Bishop

#240 🐦 Fox Kestrel

#242 🐦 Lanner Falcon

#249 🐦 Sun Lark

#251 🐦 Great Snipe

#252 🐦 Common Moorhen

#254 🐦 Grey Ground Thrush

#256 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#262 🐦 White-backed Vulture

#263 🐦 Eurasian Oystercatcher

#271 🐦 Pygmy Sunbird

#275 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#287 🐦 Yellow-bellied Hyliota

#295 🐦 Least Honeyguide

#298 🐦 Lesser Honeyguide

#300 🐦 African Dwarf Kingfisher

#306 🐦 Bar-breasted Firefinch

#308 🐦 Bronze-tailed Starling

#309 🐦 Lesser Blue-eared Starling

#312 🐦 Yellow-crowned Gonolek

#317 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#319 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#335 🐦 Fiery-breasted Bushshrike

#345 🐦 Yellow-footed Honeyguide

#348 🐦 European Bee-eater

#350 🐦 Swallow-tailed Bee-eater

#352 🐦 Northern Carmine Bee-eater

#358 🐦 White Wagtail

#362 🐦 Yellow-billed Stork

#366 🐦 Grey-headed Oliveback

#367 🐦 African Pygmy-goose

#371 🐦 White-breasted Nigrita

#372 🐦 Brubru

#374 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#376 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#381 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#383 🐦 African Scops Owl

#384 🐦 Thick-billed Cuckoo

#388 🐦 Red-fronted Antpecker

#389 🐦 White-shouldered Black Tit

#390 🐦 House sparrow

#394 🐦 White-fronted Black Chat

#397 🐦 Green Woodhoopoe

#398 🐦 Common Redstart

#404 🐦 Wood Warbler

#408 🐦 African Spoonbill

#415 🐦 Orange Weaver

#419 🐦 Heuglin's Masked Weaver

#420 🐦 Preuss's Weaver

#423 🐦 American Golden Plover

#433 🐦 Martial Eagle

#435 🐦 Allen's Gallinule

#436 🐦 Purple Swamphen

#440 🐦 Cassin's Honeybird

#443 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet

#449 🐦 Northern White-faced Owl

#450 🐦 Piapiac

#451 🐦 Rock Martin

#456 🐦 Red-billed Quelea

#462 🐦 African Spotted Creeper

#463 🐦 Knob-billed Duck

#464 🐦 Buff-spotted Flufftail

#466 🐦 Red-chested Flufftail

#468 🐦 African stonechat

#471 🐦 Pel's Fishing Owl

#473 🐦 Lowland Akalat

#475 🐦 Garganey

#480 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#481 🐦 Roseate Tern

#483 🐦 Little Tern

#487 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#492 🐦 Northern Crombec

#499 🐦 Brown-crowned Tchagra

#516 🐦 Brown Babbler

#517 🐦 Blackcap Babbler

#523 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

#524 🐦 Long-tailed Hawk

#527 🐦 Spur-winged Lapwing

#531 🐦 Barka Indigobird

#533 🐦 Jambandu Indigobird