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Turks and Caicos Islands wildlife

167 species in the Turks and Caicos Islands dex: 50 Common, 61 Uncommon, 50 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.

#113 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#127 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#140 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#142 🐦 Caribbean Martin

#186 🐦 Tree Swallow

#197 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

Rare

#007 🐦 Northern Pintail

#009 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#012 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#016 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#017 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#024 🐦 Dunlin

#025 🐦 Red Knot

#026 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#042 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#045 🐦 Hen Harrier

#051 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#054 🐦 West Indian Whistling Duck

#063 🐦 White Ibis

#069 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#071 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#077 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#081 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#084 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#086 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#093 🐦 American Wigeon

#117 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#121 🐦 Scaly-naped Pigeon

#125 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#130 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#132 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#134 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#135 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#136 🐦 American Golden Plover

#141 🐦 Sora

#143 🐦 Purple Martin

#144 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#150 🐦 American Avocet

#155 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#159 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#160 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#162 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#167 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#168 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#170 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#173 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#178 🐦 Common Tern

#181 🐦 Masked Booby

#195 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#196 🐦 American Barn Owl

#200 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#201 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#202 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#211 🐸 Greenhouse Frog · introduced

#214 🦎 Northern Curly-tailed Lizard

#216 🐸 Cuban Treefrog

Uncommon

#001 🦌 Domestic goat · introduced

#002 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#011 🐦 Brown Noddy

#027 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#028 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#029 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#031 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#036 🐦 Piping Plover

#046 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#047 🐦 Mangrove Cuckoo

#049 🐦 Rock Dove

#052 🐦 Cuban Crow

#056 🐦 Bobolink

#057 🐦 Gray Catbird

#064 🐦 Merlin

#065 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#068 🐦 American Coot

#072 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#074 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#075 🐦 Key West Quail-Dove

#079 🐦 Barn Swallow

#082 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#083 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#085 🐦 American Herring Gull

#088 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#095 🐦 Pearly-eyed Thrasher

#097 🐦 Black-faced Grassquit

#098 🐦 Greater Antillean Bullfinch

#102 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#105 🐦 Whimbrel

#107 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#109 🐦 Bridled Tern

#110 🐦 Sooty Tern

#111 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#114 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#115 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#119 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#126 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#128 🐦 Neotropic cormorant

#138 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#139 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#149 🐦 Clapper Rail

#152 🐦 Ovenbird

#153 🐦 Northern Parula

#154 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#156 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#157 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#158 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#161 🐦 Palm Warbler

#164 🐦 American Redstart

#165 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#169 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#176 🐦 Roseate Tern

#182 🐦 Brown Booby

#185 🐦 Least Grebe

#189 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#193 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#198 🐦 Black-whiskered Vireo

#206 🦎 Brown Anole

#210 🦎 Turks Island Iguana

#213 🦎 House Gecko · introduced

Common

#006 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#008 🐦 White-cheeked Pintail

#013 🐦 Great Egret

#014 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#015 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#020 🐦 Cattle Egret · introduced

#022 🐦 Green Heron

#023 🐦 Sanderling

#030 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#037 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#038 🐦 Killdeer

#041 🐦 Antillean Nighthawk

#048 🐦 Bananaquit

#050 🐦 Common Ground-Dove

#053 🐦 Smooth-billed Ani

#058 🐦 Little blue heron

#059 🐦 Reddish Egret

#060 🐦 Snowy egret

#061 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#066 🐦 American Kestrel

#067 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird

#070 🐦 Common Moorhen

#076 🐦 American Oystercatcher

#078 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#087 🐦 Laughing Gull

#096 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#100 🐦 Bahama Mockingbird

#101 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#104 🐦 Bahama Woodstar

#106 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#112 🐦 Osprey

#120 🐦 White-crowned Pigeon

#123 🐦 Brown Pelican

#131 🐦 American Flamingo

#137 🐦 Grey Plover

#163 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#166 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#179 🐦 Least Tern

#180 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#188 🐦 Royal Tern

#190 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#191 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#192 🐦 Willet

#194 🐦 Gray Kingbird

#199 🐦 Thick-billed Vireo

#203 🐦 White-winged Dove

#204 🐦 Zenaida Dove

#205 🐦 Mourning Dove

#207 🦎 Silver Key Anole

#215 🦎 Bastion Cay Curlytail Lizard

Vagrants

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

#005 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#010 🐦 Black Noddy

#018 🐦 Greater scaup

#019 🐦 Canada goose

#021 🐦 Striated Heron

#032 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#033 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#034 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#035 🐦 Chimney Swift

#039 🐦 Wilson's Plover

#040 🐦 Black Tern

#043 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#044 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#055 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#062 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#073 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#080 🐦 Caspian Tern

#089 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#090 🐦 Swainson's Warbler

#091 🐦 Tricolored Munia

#092 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#094 🐦 Gadwall

#099 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#103 🐦 Northern Gannet

#108 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#116 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#118 🐦 Painted Bunting

#122 🐦 American White Pelican

#124 🐦 Cave Swallow

#129 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#133 🐦 Summer Tanager

#145 🐦 Trindade Petrel

#147 🐦 Great Shearwater

#151 🐦 Sand Martin

#171 🐦 Western Spindalis

#172 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#174 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#175 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#177 🐦 Forster's Tern

#183 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#184 🐦 Antillean Palm-swift

#187 🐦 Bahama Swallow

#209 🦎 Southern Bahamas Boa

#217 🦎 Caicos Least Gecko

Marine

Seen offshore.

#003 🦌 Humpback Whale

#004 🦌 Killer Whale

#146 🐦 Black-capped Petrel

#148 🐦 Audubon's Shearwater

#208 🦎 Green Turtle

#212 🦎 Hawksbill turtle