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Svalbard and Jan Mayen wildlife

116 species in the Svalbard and Jan Mayen dex: 35 Common, 42 Uncommon, 34 Rare, 5 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.

#035 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#051 🐦 Grey Heron

#111 🐦 Merlin

#113 🐦 Gyrfalcon

#243 🐦 Northern Lapwing

Rare

#006 🦌 Hooded Seal

#009 🦌 Northern Bottlenose Whale

#012 🦌 East European Vole

#025 🐦 Common Redpoll

#026 🐦 Arctic Redpoll

#041 🐦 Snow Goose

#043 🐦 Bar-headed Goose

#050 🐦 Common Swift

#053 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#062 🐦 Canada goose

#066 🐦 Snowy Owl

#080 🐦 Little Stint

#081 🐦 Ruff

#095 🐦 Common Wood Pigeon

#097 🐦 Hooded crow

#110 🐦 European Robin

#118 🐦 Common Chaffinch

#119 🐦 Brambling

#124 🐦 Yellow-billed Loon

#128 🐦 Common Crane

#130 🐦 White-tailed Eagle

#132 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#158 🐦 Gadwall

#160 🐦 Velvet Scoter

#164 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#188 🐦 Common Chiffchaff

#195 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#202 🐦 Eurasian Bullfinch

#203 🐦 Ross's Gull

#220 🐦 Common Starling

#221 🐦 Eurasian Blackcap

#229 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#237 🐦 Song Thrush

#238 🐦 Fieldfare

Uncommon

#016 🦌 Harp Seal

#020 🦌 Ringed Seal

#022 🦌 Brown Rat

#023 🦌 Polar Bear

#024 🦌 Arctic Fox

#032 🐦 Razorbill

#034 🐦 Northern Pintail

#037 🐦 Mallard

#039 🐦 Greylag Goose

#044 🐦 Tundra Bean Goose

#047 🐦 Meadow pipit

#057 🐦 Tufted Duck

#059 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#067 🐦 Common goldeneye

#070 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#075 🐦 Red Knot

#079 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#090 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#103 🐦 Whooper Swan

#122 🐦 Common snipe

#126 🐦 Common Loon

#129 🐦 Eurasian Oystercatcher

#131 🐦 Barn Swallow

#137 🐦 Herring Gull

#138 🐦 Mew Gull

#140 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#146 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#157 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#161 🐦 Common Scoter

#166 🐦 Northern Gannet

#167 🐦 White Wagtail

#171 🐦 Whimbrel

#173 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#193 🐦 European Golden Plover

#198 🐦 Steller's Eider

#211 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#226 🐦 Common Shelduck

#233 🐦 Common Redshank

#235 🐦 Redwing

#236 🐦 Common Blackbird

#241 🐦 Common Murre

#244 🐦 Sabine's Gull

Common

#008 🦌 Bearded Seal

#014 🦌 Walrus

#017 🦌 Harbor Seal

#021 🦌 Reindeer

#033 🐦 Little Auk

#036 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#040 🐦 Pink-footed Goose

#052 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#061 🐦 Brent Goose

#064 🐦 Barnacle Goose

#072 🐦 Sanderling

#073 🐦 Dunlin

#078 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#085 🐦 Black Guillemot

#086 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#093 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#117 🐦 Atlantic Puffin

#127 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#135 🐦 Rock Ptarmigan

#141 🐦 Iceland Gull

#142 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#143 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#175 🐦 Ivory Gull

#183 🐦 Red Phalarope

#184 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#192 🐦 Snow Bunting

#205 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#209 🐦 Common Eider

#210 🐦 King Eider

#213 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#214 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#215 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#216 🐦 Great Skua

#217 🐦 Arctic Tern

#242 🐦 Thick-billed Murre

Vagrants

115

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

#013 🦌 Narwhal

#027 🐦 Marsh Warbler

#028 🐦 Eurasian Reed Warbler

#029 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#030 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#031 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#038 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#042 🐦 Bean Goose

#045 🐦 Red-throated Pipit

#046 🐦 Olive-backed Pipit

#048 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#049 🐦 Tree pipit

#054 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#055 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#056 🐦 Common Pochard

#058 🐦 Greater scaup

#060 🐦 Eurasian Bittern

#063 🐦 Cackling Goose

#065 🐦 Red-breasted Goose

#068 🐦 Common Buzzard

#069 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#071 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#074 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#076 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#077 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#082 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#083 🐦 Temminck's Stint

#084 🐦 Common Rosefinch

#087 🐦 White-winged Tern

#088 🐦 Black Tern

#089 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#091 🐦 Hen Harrier

#092 🐦 Pallid Harrier

#094 🐦 Hawfinch

#096 🐦 Common Raven

#098 🐦 Carrion Crow

#099 🐦 Rook

#100 🐦 Corn Crake

#101 🐦 Common Cuckoo

#102 🐦 Tundra Swan

#104 🐦 Mute Swan

#105 🐦 Common house martin

#106 🐦 Yellowhammer

#107 🐦 Rustic Bunting

#108 🐦 Reed Bunting

#109 🐦 Horned Lark

#112 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#114 🐦 Common Kestrel

#115 🐦 European Pied Flycatcher

#116 🐦 Red-breasted Flycatcher

#120 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#123 🐦 Common Moorhen

#125 🐦 Black-throated Diver

#133 🐦 Little Gull

#134 🐦 Eurasian Wryneck

#136 🐦 Red-backed Shrike

#139 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#144 🐦 Laughing Gull

#145 🐦 Franklin's gull

#147 🐦 Twite

#148 🐦 Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler

#149 🐦 Lanceolated warbler

#150 🐦 Common Grasshopper Warbler

#151 🐦 Red Crossbill

#152 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#153 🐦 Siberian Rubythroat

#154 🐦 Thrush Nightingale

#155 🐦 Bluethroat

#156 🐦 Jack snipe

#159 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#162 🐦 Smew

#163 🐦 Goosander

#165 🐦 Black Kite

#168 🐦 Grey Wagtail

#169 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#170 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#172 🐦 Leach's Storm Petrel

#174 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#176 🐦 Osprey

#177 🐦 Great Tit

#178 🐦 House sparrow

#179 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow

#180 🐦 Rosy Starling

#181 🐦 European Honey Buzzard

#182 🐦 Great Cormorant

#185 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#186 🐦 Black Redstart

#187 🐦 Common Redstart

#189 🐦 Yellow-browed Warbler

#190 🐦 Willow Warbler

#191 🐦 Eurasian Magpie

#194 🐦 American Golden Plover

#196 🐦 Grey Plover

#197 🐦 Horned Grebe

#199 🐦 Dunnock

#200 🐦 Great Shearwater

#204 🐦 Sand Martin

#206 🐦 Whinchat

#207 🐦 Eurasian Woodcock

#208 🐦 Spectacled Eider

#212 🐦 Garganey

#218 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove

#219 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#222 🐦 Garden Warbler

#223 🐦 Common Whitethroat

#224 🐦 Lesser Whitethroat

#225 🐦 Ruddy Shelduck

#227 🐦 Spotted Redshank

#228 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#230 🐦 Common Greenshank

#231 🐦 Green sandpiper

#232 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#234 🐦 Black-throated Thrush

#239 🐦 Ring Ouzel

#240 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

Marine

Seen offshore.

#001 🦌 Bowhead whale

#002 🦌 Minke Whale

#003 🦌 Sei Whale

#004 🦌 Blue whale

#005 🦌 Fin Whale

#007 🦌 Beluga

#010 🦌 White-beaked Dolphin

#011 🦌 Humpback Whale

#015 🦌 Killer Whale

#018 🦌 Harbor porpoise

#019 🦌 Sperm Whale

#121 🐦 Northern Fulmar

#201 🐦 Sooty Shearwater