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Solomon Islands wildlife

191 species in the Solomon Islands dex: 59 Common, 72 Uncommon, 53 Rare, 7 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.

#097 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#171 🐦 Red-tailed Tropicbird

#174 🐦 Kolombangara Leaf Warbler

#182 🐦 White-browed Crake

#215 🐦 Channel-Billed Cuckoo

#216 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#244 🐦 Long-tailed Koel

Rare

#022 🐦 Plain Bush-hen

#026 🐦 White-eyed Starling

#033 🐦 Rusty-winged Starling

#035 🐦 Great Egret

#037 🐦 Guadalcanal Owl

#045 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#050 🐦 Nicobar Pigeon

#055 🐦 North Solomons Dwarf-kingfisher

#056 🐦 Guadalcanal Dwarf-kingfisher

#057 🐦 Little Kingfisher

#058 🐦 Pacific Emerald Dove

#062 🐦 Meek's Lorikeet

#063 🐦 Palm Lorikeet

#069 🐦 Satin Swiftlet

#070 🐦 Yellow-legged Pigeon

#074 🐦 Black-Faced Cuckooshrike

#091 🐦 Blue-Faced Parrot-Finch

#094 🐦 Solomons Nightjar

#098 🐦 Oriental Hobby

#103 🐦 Buff-banded Rail

#104 🐦 Roviana Rail

#112 🐦 White tern

#120 🐦 Polynesian Triller

#121 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#136 🐦 Melanesian Flycatcher

#143 🐦 Red-vested Myzomela

#146 🐦 Fearful Owl

#157 🐦 Spectacled Tern

#162 🐦 Bronze Ground Dove

#169 🐦 Solomons Robin

#170 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#175 🐦 Numfor Leaf-warbler

#192 🐦 Red-bellied Fruit-dove

#203 🐦 Grey Fantail

#208 🐦 White-fronted Fantail

#212 🐦 Makira Fantail

#214 🐦 Solomons Frogmouth

#218 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#221 🐦 Little Tern

#222 🐦 Masked Booby

#227 🐦 Malaita Monarch

#239 🐦 Wandering Tattler

#245 🐦 Sanford's White-eye

#248 🐦 Makira Thrush

#252 🐦 Yellow-billed White-eye

#254 🐦 Hermit White-eye

#257 🐦 Santa Cruz White-eye

#258 🐦 Splendid White-eye

#261 🐦 Belted White-eye

#272 🦎 Teal Emo Skink

#273 🦎 Black Emo Skink

#279 🦎 Brahminy blindsnake

#281 🦎 Yellow-lipped sea krait

Uncommon

#001 🦌 Domesticated cattle

#002 🦌 Wolf

#011 🦌 Wild Boar · introduced

#017 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#019 🐦 White-rumped Swiftlet

#021 🐦 Common Kingfisher · introduced

#023 🐦 Pacific Black Duck

#025 🐦 Brown Noddy

#028 🐦 Makira Starling

#031 🐦 Rennell Starling

#036 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#039 🐦 Pacific Baza

#041 🐦 Striated Heron

#043 🐦 Solomons Brush Cuckoo

#053 🐦 New Georgia Dwarf-kingfisher

#054 🐦 Makira Dwarf-Kingfisher

#064 🐦 Shining Bronze Cuckoo

#067 🐦 Rennell Shrikebill

#071 🐦 Metallic Pigeon

#072 🐦 Black-bellied Cicadabird

#076 🐦 Makira Cicadabird

#077 🐦 North Melanesian Cuckooshrike

#078 🐦 White-billed Crow

#082 🐦 Spangled Drongo

#083 🐦 Chestnut-bellied Imperial Pigeon

#092 🐦 Beach Thick-knee

#093 🐦 Pacific Koel

#100 🐦 Great Frigatebird

#105 🐦 Woodford's Rail

#113 🐦 Pale Mountain Pigeon

#118 🐦 Shade Bush Warbler

#119 🐦 Long-Tailed Triller

#127 🐦 Makira Honeyeater

#128 🐦 Little Pied Cormorant

#137 🐦 Makira Flycatcher

#142 🐦 Red-capped Myzomela

#144 🐦 Black-headed Myzomela

#148 🐦 Solomons Boobook

#151 🐦 Whimbrel

#153 🐦 Rufous Night Heron

#155 🐦 Bridled Tern

#156 🐦 Sooty Tern

#158 🐦 Rennell Whistler

#166 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow · introduced

#176 🐦 Makira Leaf Warbler

#178 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#191 🐦 White-headed Fruit Dove

#195 🐦 Superb Fruit Dove

#202 🐦 Crested Cuckoo-Dove

#204 🐦 White-winged Fantail

#210 🐦 Rennell Fantail

#219 🐦 Common Tern

#220 🐦 Black-naped Tern

#224 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#225 🐦 Solomons Monarch

#226 🐦 Kolombangara Monarch

#228 🐦 White-collared Monarch

#231 🐦 Australian White Ibis

#232 🐦 Ultramarine Kingfisher

#234 🐦 Sacred Kingfisher

#238 🐦 Grey-tailed Tattler

#251 🐦 Solomons White-eye

#253 🐦 Yellow-throated White-eye

#256 🐦 Rennell White-eye

#259 🐦 Malaita White-eye

#260 🐦 Dark-eyed White-eye

#269 🦎 Saltwater crocodile

#271 🦎 Pacific Bluetail Skink

#276 🦎 Pacific Dtella

#278 🦎 Common House Gecko

#280 🦎 Emerald Skink

#282 🦎 Mourning Gecko

Common

#003 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#004 🦌 House Mouse

#007 🦌 Black Rat · introduced

#014 🐦 Common myna · introduced

#020 🐦 Uniform Swiftlet

#024 🐦 Black Noddy

#027 🐦 Singing Starling

#030 🐦 Brown-winged Starling

#032 🐦 Metallic Starling

#042 🐦 Broad-crested Corella

#052 🐦 Buff-headed Coucal

#059 🐦 Stephan's Emerald Dove

#060 🐦 Cardinal Lory

#068 🐦 Glossy Swiftlet

#073 🐦 Barred Cuckooshrike

#075 🐦 White-bellied Cuckooshrike

#080 🐦 Midget Flowerpecker

#081 🐦 Mottled Flowerpecker

#084 🐦 Pacific Imperial-pigeon

#085 🐦 Island Imperial-pigeon

#086 🐦 Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon

#087 🐦 Eclectus parrot

#090 🐦 Pacific Reef Heron

#095 🐦 Oriental dollarbird

#099 🐦 Lesser frigatebird

#107 🐦 Singing Parrot

#108 🐦 Rennell Gerygone

#114 🐦 Forest Fish Eagle

#115 🐦 Brahminy Kite

#116 🐦 Moustached Treeswift

#117 🐦 Pacific Swallow

#123 🐦 Yellow-bibbed Lory

#124 🐦 Mackinlay's Cuckoo-dove

#126 🐦 Melanesian Megapode

#130 🐦 Emerald Pygmy Parrot

#131 🐦 Long-tailed Myna

#132 🐦 Chestnut-bellied Monarch

#135 🐦 White-capped Monarch

#138 🐦 Steel-blue Flycatcher

#140 🐦 Cardinal Myzomela

#141 🐦 Crimson-rumped Myzomela

#145 🐦 Sooty Myzomela

#160 🐦 Oriole Whistler

#164 🐦 Osprey

#180 🐦 Australasian Swamphen

#193 🐦 Silver-capped Fruit Dove

#194 🐦 Yellow-bibbed Fruit Dove

#196 🐦 Claret-breasted Fruit Dove

#206 🐦 Willie Wagtail

#211 🐦 Rufous Fantail

#213 🐦 Blyth's Hornbill

#223 🐦 Brown Booby

#230 🐦 Greater Crested Tern

#233 🐦 Pacific Kingfisher

#235 🐦 Beach Kingfisher

#236 🐦 Melanesian Kingfisher

#237 🐦 Coconut Lorikeet

#246 🐦 Bare-eyed White-eye

#284 🐸 Cane Toad · introduced

Vagrants

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

#005 🦌 Northern common cuscus

#010 🦌 Rough-toothed dolphin

#013 🐦 Pied Goshawk

#015 🐦 Australian Reed Warbler

#016 🐦 Moustached Kingfisher

#018 🐦 Mayr's Swiftlet

#029 🐦 Atoll Starling

#034 🐦 Pacific Swift

#038 🐦 Malaita Owl

#040 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#044 🐦 Fan-Tailed Cuckoo

#046 🐦 Red Knot

#047 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#048 🐦 Red-necked stint

#049 🐦 Great Knot

#061 🐦 Greater Sand Plover

#065 🐦 Olive-backed Sunbird

#066 🐦 Swamp Harrier

#079 🐦 Oriental Cuckoo

#088 🐦 Common Cicadabird

#089 🐦 White-faced Heron

#096 🐦 Australian Hobby

#101 🐦 Black-bellied Storm-petrel

#102 🐦 Dusky Moorhen

#106 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#109 🐦 Fan-Tailed Gerygone

#110 🐦 Oriental Pratincole

#111 🐦 Guadalcanal Honeyeater

#122 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#125 🐦 Vanikoro Monarch

#129 🐦 Red-breasted Pygmy-parrot

#133 🐦 Island Monarch

#134 🐦 Bougainville Monarch

#139 🐦 Vanikoro Flycatcher

#147 🐦 Bar-winged Rail

#149 🐦 Far Eastern Curlew

#150 🐦 Little Curlew

#152 🐦 Bristle-thighed curlew

#159 🐦 Hooded Whistler

#161 🐦 Temotu Whistler

#163 🐦 Santa Cruz Ground Dove

#165 🐦 House sparrow

#167 🐦 Australian Pelican

#168 🐦 Tree martin

#172 🐦 Great Cormorant

#173 🐦 Little Black Cormorant

#177 🐦 Black-faced Pitta

#179 🐦 Grey Plover

#181 🐦 Purple Swamphen

#183 🐦 Spotless Crake

#184 🐦 Beck's Petrel

#186 🐦 Collared Petrel

#187 🐦 Herald Petrel

#188 🐦 Gould's Petrel

#189 🐦 Vanuatu petrel

#190 🐦 Providence Petrel

#205 🐦 White-gorgeted Fantail

#207 🐦 Malaita Fantail

#209 🐦 Guadalcanal Fantail

#217 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#229 🐦 Australasian Grebe

#240 🐦 Common Greenshank

#241 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#242 🐦 Red-backed Buttonquail

#243 🐦 Eastern Barn Owl

#247 🐦 Terek Sandpiper

#249 🐦 Guadalcanal Thrush

#250 🐦 Vanikoro White-eye

#255 🐦 Guadalcanal White-eye

#262 🦎 Solomon Island Ground Boa

#264 🐸 Warty Webbed Frog

#265 🐸 Guenther's Triangle Frog

#266 🐸 Solomon Wrinkled Ground Frog

#267 🐸 Torakina Sticky-toed Frog

#268 🐸 Fauro Sticky-toed Frog

#270 🦎 Mangrove Skink

#275 🦎 White-striped Cape Skink

#277 🦎 Sago Gecko

#283 🦎 Green Tree Skink

#285 🦎 Mangrove Monitor

Marine

Seen offshore.

#006 🦌 Sperm Whale

#008 🦌 Pantropical Spotted Dolphin

#009 🦌 Spinner Dolphin

#012 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#051 🐦 Streaked Shearwater

#154 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#185 🐦 Tahiti petrel

#197 🐦 Tropical Shearwater

#198 🐦 Flesh-footed shearwater

#199 🐦 Heinroth's Shearwater

#200 🐦 Wedge-tailed shearwater

#201 🐦 Short-Tailed Shearwater

#263 🦎 Green Turtle

#274 🦎 Hawksbill turtle