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South Carolina wildlife

478 species in the South Carolina dex: 143 Common, 170 Uncommon, 144 Rare, 21 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.

#005 🦌 Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat

#026 🦌 Marsh Rice Rat

#067 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#075 🐦 Greylag Goose

#077 🐦 Swan Goose

#159 🐦 Wilson's Plover

#218 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#224 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#263 🐦 Franklin's gull

#286 🐦 Budgerigar · introduced

#296 🐦 Shiny Cowbird

#302 🐦 Monk Parakeet · introduced

#378 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#389 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#399 🐦 Kirtland's Warbler

#433 🐦 Roseate Tern

#445 🐦 Cabot's Tern

#470 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#490 🐸 Spotted Salamander

#554 🦎 Diamondback Terrapin

#590 🦎 Pygmy Rattlesnake

Rare

144

#001 🦌 Southern Short-tailed Shrew

#006 🦌 North American Least Shrew

#008 🦌 Big Brown Bat

#011 🦌 Silver-haired Bat

#012 🦌 Red Bat

#013 🦌 Seminole Bat

#019 🦌 Meadow vole

#020 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#021 🦌 Eastern Woodrat

#022 🦌 Evening Bat

#025 🦌 European Rabbit · introduced

#027 🦌 Tricolored Bat

#030 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#047 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#050 🐦 Western Grebe

#055 🐦 Razorbill

#058 🐦 Egyptian Goose · introduced

#061 🐦 Saltmarsh Sparrow

#062 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#064 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#071 🐦 American Black Duck

#074 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#076 🐦 Snow Goose

#078 🐦 Ross's Goose

#083 🐦 Golden Eagle

#084 🐦 Limpkin

#085 🐦 Black-chinned Hummingbird

#090 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#097 🐦 Greater scaup

#098 🐦 Canvasback

#100 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#102 🐦 Ruffed Grouse

#111 🐦 Common goldeneye

#121 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#125 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#128 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#130 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#135 🐦 Ruff

#137 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#142 🐦 Canada Warbler

#143 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#150 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#152 🐦 Henslow's Sparrow

#153 🐦 Black Guillemot

#161 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#164 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#168 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#170 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#175 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#179 🐦 Common Raven

#183 🐦 Black swan

#196 🐦 Reddish Egret

#201 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#202 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#203 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#204 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#209 🐦 Brewer's Blackbird

#214 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird

#220 🐦 Pacific Loon

#228 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#236 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#240 🐦 Bullock's Oriole

#250 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#251 🐦 Iceland Gull

#253 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#259 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#268 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#269 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#273 🐦 Red Crossbill

#276 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#283 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#284 🐦 Surf Scoter

#288 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#290 🐦 Goosander

#298 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#300 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#303 🐦 Long-billed Curlew

#304 🐦 Hudsonian Whimbrel

#306 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#312 🐦 Sooty Tern

#313 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#326 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#329 🐦 Cave Swallow

#333 🐦 Great Cormorant

#335 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#336 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#337 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#339 🐦 American Flamingo

#342 🐦 Western Tanager

#347 🐦 Snow Bunting

#348 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#350 🐦 American Golden Plover

#353 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#354 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#361 🐦 Purple Swamphen · introduced

#368 🐦 Vermilion Flycatcher

#377 🐦 Sand Martin

#382 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#387 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#392 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#393 🐦 Cerulean Warbler

#398 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#416 🐦 Common Eider

#419 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#424 🐦 Dickcissel

#425 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#431 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#432 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#443 🐦 Brown Booby

#457 🐦 Gray Kingbird

#458 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#460 🐦 Fork-tailed Flycatcher

#462 🐦 Western Kingbird

#464 🐦 American Barn Owl

#467 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#468 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#469 🐦 Black-whiskered Vireo

#473 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#476 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#478 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#480 🐦 White-winged Dove

#494 🐸 American Toad

#496 🐸 Oak Toad

#510 🦎 Spotted Turtle

#516 🐸 Seal Salamander

#517 🐸 Ocoee Salamander

#527 🐸 Southern Two-lined Salamander

#529 🐸 Dwarf Salamander

#530 🐸 Blue Ridge Two-lined Salamander

#531 🦎 Mud Snake

#534 🦎 Gopher Tortoise

#536 🦎 Rough Earthsnake

#539 🦎 Eastern Hognose Snake

#541 🦎 Striped mud turtle

#550 🐸 Pickerel Frog

#560 🦎 Brown Water Snake

#573 🐸 Atlantic Coast Slimy Salamander

#574 🐸 White-spotted Slimy Salamander

#580 🐸 Upland Chorus Frog

#581 🐸 Little Grass Frog

#583 🐸 Mud Salamander

#584 🐸 Red Salamander

#586 🐸 Eastern Spadefoot

#596 🦎 Eastern Ribbonsnake

Uncommon

170

#003 🦌 Wolf

#010 🦌 Southern Flying Squirrel

#014 🦌 North American River Otter

#016 🦌 Woodchuck

#018 🦌 Striped Skunk

#024 🦌 Muskrat

#032 🦌 Eastern Mole

#035 🦌 Hispid Cotton Rat

#036 🦌 Wild Boar · introduced

#038 🦌 Marsh Rabbit

#039 🦌 Mexican Free-tailed Bat

#043 🦌 Gray Fox

#044 🦌 American Black Bear

#045 🦌 Red Fox

#048 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#049 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#060 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#063 🐦 Seaside Sparrow

#065 🐦 Northern Pintail

#068 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#069 🐦 Mottled Duck

#079 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#081 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#082 🐦 Eastern Whip-poor-will

#089 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#093 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#094 🐦 Redhead

#095 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#103 🐦 American Bittern

#108 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#109 🐦 Cattle Egret

#116 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#119 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#126 🐦 Red Knot

#129 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#131 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#132 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#134 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#136 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#148 🐦 Veery

#151 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#154 🐦 Brown Creeper

#156 🐦 Piping Plover

#160 🐦 Black Tern

#162 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#163 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#166 🐦 Marsh Wren

#167 🐦 Sedge Wren

#172 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#174 🐦 Common Ground-Dove

#185 🐦 Tundra Swan

#187 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#189 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#191 🐦 Bobolink

#199 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#205 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher

#206 🐦 Horned Lark

#208 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#211 🐦 Merlin

#212 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#213 🐦 American Kestrel

#216 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#219 🐦 Common Loon

#221 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#222 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#223 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#229 🐦 American Oystercatcher

#231 🐦 Purple Finch

#233 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#234 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#237 🐦 Caspian Tern

#238 🐦 Wood Thrush

#239 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#241 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#243 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#247 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike

#254 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#256 🐦 American Herring Gull

#257 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#258 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#260 🐦 Red-cockaded Woodpecker

#261 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#264 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#265 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#266 🐦 Swainson's Warbler

#267 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#275 🐦 American Wigeon

#277 🐦 Gadwall

#279 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#282 🐦 Black Scoter

#285 🐦 Wild Turkey

#291 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#297 🐦 Northern Gannet

#305 🐦 Whimbrel

#307 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#315 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#317 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#318 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#321 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#327 🐦 American White Pelican

#330 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#331 🐦 Bachman's Sparrow

#338 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#343 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#346 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#349 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#352 🐦 Horned Grebe

#359 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#360 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#362 🐦 Sora

#363 🐦 Purple Martin

#364 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#372 🐦 King Rail

#373 🐦 Virginia Rail

#374 🐦 American Avocet

#380 🐦 Black Skimmer

#383 🐦 American Woodcock

#384 🐦 Ovenbird

#391 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#394 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#396 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#400 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#404 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#405 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#408 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#409 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#411 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#413 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#418 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#420 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#422 🐦 Pine Siskin

#427 🐦 Field Sparrow

#429 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#435 🐦 Common Tern

#436 🐦 Least Tern

#437 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#447 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#450 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#453 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#455 🐦 Winter Wren

#471 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#483 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#485 🐸 Northern Cricket Frog

#486 🐸 Southern Cricket Frog

#489 🦎 American alligator

#491 🐸 Marbled Salamander

#500 🦎 Brown Anole · introduced

#503 🦎 Six-lined Racerunner

#505 🦎 Common Wormsnake

#508 🦎 Common snapping turtle

#509 🦎 Painted Turtle

#513 🦎 Timber rattlesnake

#518 🦎 Ringneck Snake

#522 🐸 Pine Woods Treefrog

#528 🐸 Three-lined Salamander

#533 🐸 Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad

#538 🦎 Turkish Gecko · introduced

#544 🦎 Common Kingsnake

#548 🐸 Green Frog

#557 🦎 Plainbelly Water Snake

#559 🦎 Northern Water Snake

#561 🐸 Eastern Newt

#562 🦎 Rough Greensnake

#564 🦎 Eastern Glass Lizard

#567 🦎 Red Cornsnake

#571 🦎 Southeastern Five-lined Skink

#579 🐸 Spring Peeper

#591 🦎 Common Musk Turtle

#592 🦎 Brown Snake

#593 🦎 Redbelly Snake

Common

143

#002 🦌 Coyote

#004 🦌 American beaver

#007 🦌 Virginia opossum

#009 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#015 🦌 Bobcat

#023 🦌 White-tailed deer

#029 🦌 Raccoon

#033 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#034 🦌 Fox Squirrel

#037 🦌 Eastern Cottontail

#040 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#052 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#054 🐦 Wood Duck

#070 🐦 Mallard

#072 🐦 Anhinga

#086 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#087 🐦 Great Egret

#088 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#099 🐦 Tufted Titmouse

#101 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#105 🐦 Canada goose

#110 🐦 Bufflehead

#113 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#115 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#118 🐦 Green Heron

#123 🐦 Sanderling

#124 🐦 Dunlin

#144 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#146 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#149 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#155 🐦 Chimney Swift

#157 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#158 🐦 Killdeer

#165 🐦 Hen Harrier

#169 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#171 🐦 Northern Flicker

#173 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#176 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#177 🐦 Black Vulture

#178 🐦 American Crow

#180 🐦 Fish Crow

#182 🐦 Blue Jay

#192 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#193 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#194 🐦 Gray Catbird

#195 🐦 Little blue heron

#197 🐦 Snowy egret

#198 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#207 🐦 White Ibis

#215 🐦 American Coot

#217 🐦 Common Moorhen

#226 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#230 🐦 House Finch

#232 🐦 Bald Eagle

#235 🐦 Barn Swallow

#244 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#246 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#249 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#262 🐦 Laughing Gull

#272 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#278 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#280 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#281 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker

#287 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#289 🐦 Song Sparrow

#292 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#293 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#295 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#299 🐦 Wood Stork

#301 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#308 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#316 🐦 Osprey

#319 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#320 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#323 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#324 🐦 Painted Bunting

#325 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#328 🐦 Brown Pelican

#332 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#340 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#344 🐦 Summer Tanager

#351 🐦 Grey Plover

#355 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#357 🐦 Carolina Chickadee

#358 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#369 🐦 Boat-tailed Grackle

#370 🐦 Common Grackle

#371 🐦 Clapper Rail

#375 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#376 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#381 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#390 🐦 Northern Parula

#395 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#397 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#403 🐦 Palm Warbler

#406 🐦 Pine Warbler

#407 🐦 American Redstart

#412 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#414 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#415 🐦 Brown-headed Nuthatch

#421 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#423 🐦 American Goldfinch

#426 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#434 🐦 Forster's Tern

#438 🐦 Barred owl

#439 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#441 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#444 🐦 Tree Swallow

#446 🐦 Royal Tern

#448 🐦 Carolina Wren

#449 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#451 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#452 🐦 Willet

#454 🐦 House Wren

#456 🐦 American Robin

#461 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#474 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#475 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#477 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#481 🐦 Mourning Dove

#482 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#487 🦎 Copperhead

#488 🦎 Cottonmouth

#495 🐸 Fowler's Toad

#497 🐸 Southern Toad

#499 🦎 Green Anole

#511 🦎 Eastern Racer

#520 🐸 Cope's Gray Treefrog

#521 🐸 Green Treefrog

#524 🐸 Squirrel Treefrog

#542 🦎 Eastern Mud Turtle

#547 🐸 American Bullfrog

#551 🐸 Southern Leopard Frog

#558 🦎 Southern Water Snake

#566 🦎 Eastern Rat Snake

#570 🦎 Five-lined Skink

#572 🦎 Broadhead Skink

#582 🦎 River Cooter

#587 🦎 Fence Lizard

#588 🦎 Ground Skink

#595 🦎 Common Box Turtle

#597 🦎 Common Garter Snake

#598 🦎 Pond Slider

Vagrants

116

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

#028 🦌 Oldfield Deermouse

#031 🦌 Eastern Harvest Mouse

#046 🐦 Common Redpoll

#051 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#053 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#056 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#057 🐦 Little Auk

#059 🐦 Buff-bellied Hummingbird

#066 🐦 White-cheeked Pintail

#073 🐦 Brown Noddy

#080 🐦 Sprague's Pipit

#091 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#092 🐦 Burrowing Owl

#096 🐦 Tufted Duck

#104 🐦 Brent Goose

#106 🐦 Cackling Goose

#107 🐦 Snowy Owl

#112 🐦 Short-tailed Hawk

#114 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#117 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#120 🐦 Lark Bunting

#122 🐦 Chestnut-collared longspur

#127 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#133 🐦 Little Stint

#138 🐦 Ringed Teal

#139 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#140 🐦 Anna's Hummingbird

#141 🐦 Southern Caracara

#145 🐦 European Goldfinch

#147 🐦 Bicknell's Thrush

#181 🐦 Yellow Rail

#184 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#186 🐦 Whooper Swan

#188 🐦 Broad-billed Hummingbird

#190 🐦 Fulvous Whistling Duck

#200 🐦 White-tailed Kite

#210 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#225 🐦 MacGillivray's Warbler

#227 🐦 Whooping Crane

#242 🐦 Scott's Oriole

#245 🐦 Least Bittern

#248 🐦 California Gull

#252 🐦 Heermann's Gull

#255 🐦 Slaty-backed Gull

#270 🐦 Tricolored Munia · introduced

#271 🐦 Scaly-breasted Munia · introduced

#274 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#294 🐦 Bronzed Cowbird

#310 🐦 Leach's Storm Petrel

#311 🐦 Bridled Tern

#314 🐦 Sage Thrasher

#322 🐦 Lazuli Bunting

#334 🐦 Red Phalarope

#341 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#345 🐦 Great Kiskadee

#356 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#367 🐦 Audubon's Shearwater

#379 🐦 Snail Kite

#385 🐦 Calliope Hummingbird

#386 🐦 Broad-tailed Hummingbird

#388 🐦 Allen's Hummingbird

#401 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#402 🐦 Hermit Warbler

#410 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#417 🐦 King Eider

#428 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#430 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#440 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#442 🐦 Masked Booby

#459 🐦 Tropical Kingbird

#463 🐦 Cassin's Kingbird

#465 🐦 Common Murre

#466 🐦 Thick-billed Murre

#472 🐦 Yellow-green Vireo

#479 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#484 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#492 🐸 Mole Salamander

#493 🐸 Two-toed Amphiuma

#498 🐸 Green Salamander

#501 🦎 Florida softshell turtle

#502 🦎 Spiny softshell turtle

#504 🦎 Loggerhead

#506 🦎 Scarlet Snake

#507 🦎 Green Turtle

#512 🦎 Eastern diamondback rattlesnake

#514 🦎 Chicken turtle

#515 🐸 Dwarf Black-bellied Salamander

#519 🐸 Pine Barrens Treefrog

#523 🐸 Barking Treefrog

#525 🐸 Greenhouse Frog · introduced

#526 🐸 Chamberlain's Dwarf Salamander

#532 🦎 Rainbow Snake

#535 🐸 Spring Salamander

#537 🐸 Four-toed Salamander

#540 🦎 Southern Hognose Snake

#543 🦎 Scarlet Kingsnake

#545 🦎 Mole snake

#546 🦎 Crayfish Snake

#549 🐸 Pig Frog

#552 🐸 Wood Frog

#553 🐸 Carpenter Frog

#555 🦎 Coachwhip

#556 🦎 Eastern Coral Snake

#563 🦎 Slender Glass Lizard

#565 🐸 Cuban Treefrog · introduced

#568 🦎 Texas Horned Lizard

#569 🦎 Pine Snake

#575 🐸 Southern Gray-cheeked Salamander

#576 🐸 Southern Appalachian Salamander

#577 🐸 South Carolina Slimy Salamander

#578 🐸 Brimley's Chorus Frog

#585 🦎 Queen Snake

#589 🐸 Greater Siren

#594 🦎 Southeastern Crowned Snake

#599 🐸 Patch-nosed Salamander

#600 🦎 Smooth Earth Snake

Marine

Seen offshore.

#017 🦌 Humpback Whale

#041 🦌 Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin

#042 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#309 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#365 🐦 Great Shearwater

#366 🐦 Sooty Shearwater