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Vanuatu wildlife

112 species in the Vanuatu dex: 35 Common, 42 Uncommon, 30 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.

#028 🐦 Rusty-winged Starling

#066 🐦 White tern

#125 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#141 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#166 🦎 Brahminy blindsnake

Rare

#017 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#022 🐦 Mallard

#025 🐦 Black Noddy

#026 🐦 Brown Noddy

#029 🐦 Great Egret

#032 🐦 Hardhead

#033 🐦 Striated Heron

#034 🐦 Fan-Tailed Cuckoo

#037 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#043 🐦 Shining Bronze Cuckoo

#056 🐦 Red-headed Parrotfinch

#071 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#074 🐦 Chestnut-breasted Munia · introduced

#076 🐦 Vanuatu Thicketbird

#078 🐦 Little Pied Cormorant

#086 🐦 Bridled Tern

#091 🐦 Santa Cruz Ground Dove

#093 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow

#097 🐦 Red-tailed Tropicbird

#127 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#128 🐦 Black-naped Tern

#130 🐦 Masked Booby

#133 🐦 Australasian Grebe

#138 🐦 Grey-tailed Tattler

#143 🐦 Masked Lapwing

#146 🦎 Speckled Litter Skink

#147 🦎 Pacific Boa

#167 🦎 Yellow-lipped sea krait

#172 🦎 Pelagic Gecko

#173 🦎 Moth Skink

Uncommon

#003 🦌 Dugong

#009 🦌 Pacific Flying Fox

#014 🦌 Wild Boar · introduced

#021 🐦 Grey Teal

#023 🐦 Pacific Black Duck

#030 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#035 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#040 🐦 Palm Lorikeet

#045 🐦 Southern Shrikebill

#047 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#048 🐦 Metallic Pigeon

#049 🐦 Melanesian Cuckooshrike

#051 🐦 Vanuatu Imperial Pigeon

#054 🐦 White-faced Heron

#057 🐦 Blue-Faced Parrot-Finch

#058 🐦 Common Waxbill · introduced

#059 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#060 🐦 Lesser frigatebird

#061 🐦 Great Frigatebird

#064 🐦 Fan-Tailed Gerygone

#065 🐦 White-bellied Honeyeater

#069 🐦 Polynesian Triller

#075 🐦 Mackinlay's Cuckoo-dove

#077 🐦 Vanuatu Megapode

#081 🐦 Buff-bellied Monarch

#085 🐦 Whimbrel

#087 🐦 Sooty Tern

#095 🐦 Pacific robin

#096 🐦 White-tailed Tropicbird

#101 🐦 Australasian Swamphen

#123 🐦 Streaked Fantail

#131 🐦 Brown Booby

#132 🐦 Red-footed Booby

#134 🐦 Greater Crested Tern

#135 🐦 Vanuatu Kingfisher

#150 🦎 Vanuatu snake-eyed skink

#154 🦎 Pacific Bluetail Skink

#155 🦎 Teal Emo Skink

#157 🦎 Azure-tailed Skink

#158 🦎 Black Emo Skink

#160 🦎 Sanford's Emo Skink

#165 🦎 Common House Gecko · introduced

Common

#002 🦌 Domestic goat · introduced

#011 🦌 Black Rat · introduced

#016 🐦 Common myna · introduced

#018 🐦 White-rumped Swiftlet

#019 🐦 Uniform Swiftlet

#031 🐦 Artamus leucorhynchos

#039 🐦 Pacific Emerald Dove

#044 🐦 Swamp Harrier

#046 🐦 Satin Swiftlet

#052 🐦 Pacific Imperial-pigeon

#055 🐦 Pacific Reef Heron

#062 🐦 Buff-banded Rail

#063 🐦 Red Junglefowl · introduced

#067 🐦 Pacific Swallow

#068 🐦 Long-Tailed Triller

#070 🐦 Grey-eared Honeyeater

#073 🐦 Chestnut Munia · introduced

#079 🐦 Melanesian Flycatcher

#080 🐦 Cardinal Myzomela

#090 🐦 Vanuatu Whistler

#092 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#099 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#114 🐦 Red-bellied Fruit-dove

#115 🐦 Tanna Fruit Dove

#122 🐦 Grey Fantail

#136 🐦 Pacific Kingfisher

#137 🐦 Coconut Lorikeet

#139 🐦 Wandering Tattler

#142 🐦 Eastern Barn Owl

#144 🐦 Vanuatu White-eye

#145 🐦 Silvereye

#151 🦎 Copper-Tailed Skink

#163 🦎 Pacific Dtella

#169 🦎 Mourning Gecko

#174 🐸 Green and Golden Bell Frog

Vagrants

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

#001 🦌 Temminck's Asian Trident Bat

#006 🦌 Fijian Long-tailed Fruit Bat

#008 🦌 Vanuatu Flying Fox

#010 🦌 Polynesian Rat

#015 🐦 Jungle Myna

#020 🐦 Northern Pintail

#024 🐦 Grey Noddy

#027 🐦 Mountain Starling

#036 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#038 🐦 Red-necked stint

#041 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#042 🐦 Silver Gull

#050 🐦 Wandering Whistling-Duck

#053 🐦 Little Egret

#072 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#082 🐦 Polynesian Storm-petrel

#083 🐦 Far Eastern Curlew

#084 🐦 Little Curlew

#088 🐦 Spectacled Tern

#089 🐦 Melanesian Whistler

#094 🐦 Tree martin

#098 🐦 Little Black Cormorant

#100 🐦 Grey Plover

#102 🐦 Spotless Crake

#105 🐦 White-Necked Petrel

#106 🐦 Cook's Petrel

#107 🐦 Mottled Petrel

#108 🐦 Gould's Petrel

#109 🐦 Kermadec petrel

#110 🐦 Black-winged Petrel

#112 🐦 Pycroft's Petrel

#117 🐦 Flesh-footed shearwater

#118 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#119 🐦 Christmas Shearwater

#124 🐦 Australasian Shoveler

#126 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#129 🐦 Common Starling

#140 🐦 Common Greenshank

#148 🦎 Solomon Island Ground Boa

#152 🦎 Medway's Emo Skink

#153 🦎 Mangrove Skink

#156 🦎 Common Emo Skink

#159 🦎 Black-bordered Emo Skink

#162 🦎 Western Giant Stump-toed Gecko

#164 🦎 Sago Gecko

#170 🦎 Vanuatu Scaly-toed Gecko

#171 🦎 Solomons Slender-toed Gecko

Marine

Seen offshore.

#004 🦌 Short-finned Pilot whale

#005 🦌 Humpback Whale

#007 🦌 Sperm Whale

#012 🦌 Pantropical Spotted Dolphin

#013 🦌 Spinner Dolphin

#103 🐦 Tahiti petrel

#104 🐦 Collared Petrel

#111 🐦 Vanuatu petrel

#113 🐦 Providence Petrel

#116 🐦 Tropical Shearwater

#120 🐦 Wedge-tailed shearwater

#121 🐦 Short-Tailed Shearwater

#149 🦎 Green Turtle

#161 🦎 Hawksbill turtle

#168 🦎 Olive Ridley