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West Virginia wildlife

388 species in the West Virginia dex: 118 Common, 136 Uncommon, 116 Rare, 18 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.

#018 🦌 Northern Myotis · location protected

#043 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#048 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#079 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#110 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#129 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#159 🐦 Snowy egret

#170 🐦 Brewer's Blackbird

#207 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#217 🐦 Laughing Gull

#253 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#265 🐦 Painted Bunting

#267 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#313 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#386 🐦 White-winged Dove

#433 🐸 Northern Ravine Salamander

#439 🐸 Ravine Salamander

#445 🐸 Midland Mud Salamander

Rare

116

#002 🦌 Domesticated cattle · introduced

#005 🦌 Domestic goat · introduced

#011 🦌 Red Bat

#016 🦌 Meadow vole

#017 🦌 Woodland vole

#019 🦌 Woodland jumping mouse

#022 🦌 Hairy-tailed Mole

#023 🦌 Tricolored Bat

#024 🦌 White-footed Mouse

#028 🦌 Cinereus Shrew

#036 🦌 Meadow jumping mouse

#037 🐦 Common Redpoll

#041 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#049 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#055 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#056 🐦 Greylag Goose

#057 🐦 Snow Goose

#060 🐦 Ross's Goose

#062 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#064 🐦 Golden Eagle

#071 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#082 🐦 American Bittern

#085 🐦 Cackling Goose

#086 🐦 Snowy Owl

#088 🐦 Cattle Egret

#092 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#098 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#099 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#100 🐦 Sanderling

#101 🐦 Dunlin

#102 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#104 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#105 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#107 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#109 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#114 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#120 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#122 🐦 Henslow's Sparrow

#126 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#128 🐦 Black Tern

#131 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#133 🐦 Marsh Wren

#134 🐦 Sedge Wren

#135 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#139 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#142 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#150 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#152 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#153 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#158 🐦 Little blue heron

#161 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#163 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#168 🐦 White Ibis

#171 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#177 🐦 Common Moorhen

#181 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#185 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#195 🐦 Caspian Tern

#200 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#203 🐦 Northern Shrike

#204 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike

#210 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#212 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#219 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#220 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#226 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#234 🐦 Black Scoter

#235 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#236 🐦 Surf Scoter

#254 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#255 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#256 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#268 🐦 American White Pelican

#273 🐦 Red Phalarope

#274 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#275 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#276 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#282 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#283 🐦 Snow Bunting

#285 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#286 🐦 American Golden Plover

#287 🐦 Grey Plover

#289 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#295 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#297 🐦 Sora

#302 🐦 Virginia Rail

#303 🐦 American Avocet

#306 🐦 Sand Martin

#312 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#344 🐦 Dickcissel

#345 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#351 🐦 Forster's Tern

#352 🐦 Common Tern

#354 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#365 🐦 Willet

#374 🐦 American Barn Owl

#382 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#394 🐸 Marbled Salamander

#398 🦎 Spiny softshell turtle

#399 🦎 Common Wormsnake

#404 🐸 Hellbender

#417 🐸 Four-toed Salamander

#424 🐸 Mudpuppy

#427 🦎 Rough Greensnake

#428 🦎 Smooth Green Snake

#432 🐸 White-spotted Slimy Salamander

#435 🐸 Valley And Ridge Salamander

#436 🐸 Cumberland Plateau Salamander

#438 🐸 White-spotted Salamander

#440 🐸 Shenandoah Mountain Salamander

#442 🐸 Mountain Chorus Frog

#444 🐸 Upland Chorus Frog

#446 🐸 Red Salamander

#447 🦎 Queen Snake

#449 🦎 Common Musk Turtle

#455 🦎 Smooth Earth Snake

Uncommon

136

#001 🦌 Northern Short-tailed Shrew

#004 🦌 Wolf

#008 🦌 Big Brown Bat

#009 🦌 North American porcupine

#010 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#012 🦌 North American River Otter

#014 🦌 Woodchuck

#015 🦌 Striped Skunk

#021 🦌 Muskrat

#030 🦌 Appalachian Cottontail

#032 🦌 Red Squirrel

#033 🦌 Gray Fox

#034 🦌 American Black Bear

#039 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#040 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#047 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#050 🐦 Northern Pintail

#052 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#054 🐦 American Black Duck

#061 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#063 🐦 Eastern Whip-poor-will

#068 🐦 Great Egret

#072 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#073 🐦 Redhead

#074 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#076 🐦 Greater scaup

#077 🐦 Canvasback

#081 🐦 Ruffed Grouse

#087 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#089 🐦 Bufflehead

#090 🐦 Common goldeneye

#094 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#108 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#113 🐦 Canada Warbler

#118 🐦 Veery

#119 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#121 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#123 🐦 Brown Creeper

#130 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#132 🐦 Hen Harrier

#137 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#147 🐦 Fish Crow

#151 🐦 Tundra Swan

#154 🐦 Bobolink

#162 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#164 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#165 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#167 🐦 Horned Lark

#169 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#172 🐦 Merlin

#173 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#175 🐦 American Coot

#176 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#179 🐦 Common Loon

#182 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#183 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#187 🐦 Purple Finch

#189 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#190 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#197 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#199 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#205 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#211 🐦 American Herring Gull

#213 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#214 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#221 🐦 Swainson's Warbler

#225 🐦 Red Crossbill

#227 🐦 American Wigeon

#229 🐦 Gadwall

#231 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#233 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker

#239 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#240 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#243 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#257 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#258 🐦 Osprey

#259 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#260 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#262 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#263 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#264 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#271 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#272 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#281 🐦 Summer Tanager

#288 🐦 Horned Grebe

#291 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#298 🐦 Purple Martin

#299 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#310 🐦 American Woodcock

#315 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#316 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#317 🐦 Cerulean Warbler

#320 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#322 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#324 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#326 🐦 Palm Warbler

#327 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#329 🐦 Pine Warbler

#331 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#332 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#335 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#337 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#339 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#342 🐦 Pine Siskin

#348 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#355 🐦 Barred owl

#363 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#364 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#366 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#368 🐦 Winter Wren

#375 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#376 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#379 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#389 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#391 🐸 Northern Cricket Frog

#392 🦎 Copperhead

#397 🐸 Green Salamander

#402 🦎 Eastern Racer

#403 🦎 Timber rattlesnake

#405 🐸 Northern Dusky Salamander

#406 🐸 Seal Salamander

#409 🐸 Cope's Gray Treefrog

#410 🐸 Gray Treefrog

#411 🐸 Northern Two-lined Salamander

#412 🐸 Southern Two-lined Salamander

#413 🐸 Long-tailed Salamander

#415 🐸 Spring Salamander

#418 🦎 Eastern Milksnake

#421 🐸 Pickerel Frog

#422 🐸 Northern Leopard Frog

#430 🦎 Five-lined Skink

#437 🐸 Cheat Mountain Salamander

#441 🐸 Wehrle's Salamander

#448 🦎 Fence Lizard

#450 🦎 Brown Snake

#451 🦎 Redbelly Snake

Common

118

#003 🦌 Coyote

#006 🦌 American beaver

#007 🦌 Virginia opossum

#013 🦌 Bobcat

#020 🦌 White-tailed deer

#025 🦌 Raccoon

#026 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#027 🦌 Fox Squirrel

#029 🦌 Eastern Cottontail

#031 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#035 🦌 Red Fox

#042 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#044 🐦 Wood Duck

#053 🐦 Mallard

#067 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#069 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#078 🐦 Tufted Titmouse

#080 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#084 🐦 Canada goose

#091 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#093 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#097 🐦 Green Heron

#115 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#116 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#124 🐦 Chimney Swift

#127 🐦 Killdeer

#136 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#138 🐦 Northern Flicker

#140 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#143 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#144 🐦 Black Vulture

#145 🐦 American Crow

#146 🐦 Common Raven

#148 🐦 Blue Jay

#155 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#156 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#157 🐦 Gray Catbird

#166 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher

#174 🐦 American Kestrel

#184 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#186 🐦 House Finch

#188 🐦 Bald Eagle

#192 🐦 Barn Swallow

#196 🐦 Wood Thrush

#198 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#202 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#216 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#224 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#230 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#232 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#237 🐦 Wild Turkey

#241 🐦 Song Sparrow

#242 🐦 Goosander

#244 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#245 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#246 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#250 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#261 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#266 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#277 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#278 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#280 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#292 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#293 🐦 Carolina Chickadee

#294 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#300 🐦 Common Grackle

#304 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#305 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#308 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#311 🐦 Ovenbird

#314 🐦 Northern Parula

#318 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#319 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#321 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#328 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#330 🐦 American Redstart

#333 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#334 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#336 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#341 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#343 🐦 American Goldfinch

#346 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#347 🐦 Field Sparrow

#349 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#356 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#358 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#359 🐦 Tree Swallow

#361 🐦 Carolina Wren

#362 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#367 🐦 House Wren

#369 🐦 American Robin

#372 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#378 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#380 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#381 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#383 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#387 🐦 Mourning Dove

#388 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#393 🐸 Spotted Salamander

#395 🐸 American Toad

#396 🐸 Fowler's Toad

#400 🦎 Common snapping turtle

#401 🦎 Painted Turtle

#407 🐸 Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander

#408 🦎 Ringneck Snake

#414 🦎 Wood turtle

#419 🐸 American Bullfrog

#420 🐸 Green Frog

#423 🐸 Wood Frog

#425 🦎 Northern Water Snake

#426 🐸 Eastern Newt

#429 🦎 Eastern Rat Snake

#431 🐸 Redback Salamander

#434 🐸 Northern Slimy Salamander

#443 🐸 Spring Peeper

#452 🦎 Common Box Turtle

#453 🦎 Common Garter Snake

#454 🦎 Pond Slider

Vagrants

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

#038 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#045 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#046 🐦 Egyptian Goose · introduced

#051 🐦 White-cheeked Pintail

#058 🐦 Swan Goose

#059 🐦 Bar-headed Goose

#065 🐦 Limpkin

#066 🐦 Black-chinned Hummingbird

#070 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#075 🐦 Tufted Duck

#083 🐦 Brent Goose

#095 🐦 Ferruginous hawk

#096 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#103 🐦 Red Knot

#106 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#111 🐦 California Quail

#112 🐦 Southern Caracara

#117 🐦 Bicknell's Thrush

#125 🐦 Piping Plover

#141 🐦 Inca Dove

#149 🐦 Black swan

#160 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#178 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#180 🐦 Pacific Loon

#191 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#193 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#194 🐦 Little Gull

#201 🐦 Varied Thrush

#206 🐦 Kelp Gull

#208 🐦 Iceland Gull

#209 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#215 🐦 Virginia's Warbler

#218 🐦 Franklin's gull

#222 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#223 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#228 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#238 🐦 Budgerigar · introduced

#247 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#248 🐦 Wood Stork

#249 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#251 🐦 Monk Parakeet · introduced

#252 🐦 Whimbrel

#269 🐦 Brown Pelican

#270 🐦 Cave Swallow

#279 🐦 Western Tanager

#284 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#290 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#296 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#301 🐦 King Rail

#307 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#309 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#323 🐦 Kirtland's Warbler

#325 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#338 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#340 🐦 Garganey

#350 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#353 🐦 Arctic Tern

#357 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#360 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#370 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#371 🐦 Fork-tailed Flycatcher

#373 🐦 Western Kingbird

#377 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#384 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#385 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#390 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#416 🐸 West Virginia Spring Salamander