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Western Sahara wildlife

175 species in the Western Sahara dex: 53 Common, 65 Uncommon, 51 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.

#026 🐦 Northern Pintail

#037 🐦 Great Egret

#060 🐦 Egyptian Nightjar

#062 🐦 Golden Nightjar

#082 🐦 Common Quail

#129 🐦 Common Nightingale

Rare

#008 🦌 Lesser Egyptian Jerboa

#013 🦌 Fat Sand Rat

#019 🐦 Sedge Warbler

#020 🐦 Eurasian Reed Warbler

#027 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#029 🐦 Red-throated Pipit

#030 🐦 Meadow pipit

#033 🐦 Common Swift

#035 🐦 Golden Eagle

#040 🐦 Squacco Heron

#051 🐦 Lesser Short-toed Lark

#056 🐦 Little Stint

#057 🐦 Ruff

#075 🐦 Short-toed Eagle

#078 🐦 Great Spotted Cuckoo

#088 🐦 Western reef heron

#098 🐦 Lesser Kestrel

#105 🐦 Common snipe

#107 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#111 🐦 Booted Eagle

#113 🐦 Melodious Warbler

#118 🐦 Mediterranean Gull

#119 🐦 Western Olivaceous Warbler

#120 🐦 Eurasian Wryneck

#127 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#130 🐦 Bluethroat

#133 🐦 European Bee-eater

#136 🐦 Blue rock thrush

#145 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#159 🐦 Spanish Sparrow

#160 🐦 Sudan Golden Sparrow

#165 🐦 Red Phalarope

#178 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#183 🐦 Pale Crag-martin

#193 🐦 European Stonechat

#194 🐦 Streaked Scrub Warbler

#200 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#204 🐦 Common Tern

#206 🐦 Little Tern

#208 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#210 🐦 Common Whitethroat

#213 🐦 Tristram's Warbler

#215 🐦 Little Grebe

#220 🐦 Spotted Redshank

#221 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#223 🐦 Green sandpiper

#229 🐦 Barn Owl

#236 🦎 Nidua Fringe-fingered Lizard

#244 🦎 Moila Snake

#252 🦎 Böhme's Agama

#253 🦎 Algerian Sand Gecko

Uncommon

#002 🦌 Ass

#004 🦌 Wildcat

#010 🦌 Honey Badger

#011 🦌 Fat-tailed Jird

#012 🦌 Desert Hedgehog

#021 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#025 🐦 Desert Lark

#028 🐦 Tawny Pipit

#031 🐦 Tree pipit

#032 🐦 Little Swift

#034 🐦 Pallid Swift

#041 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#042 🐦 Little Owl

#044 🐦 Pharaoh Eagle-owl

#045 🐦 Cattle Egret

#046 🐦 Trumpeter Finch

#048 🐦 Eurasian stone-curlew

#050 🐦 Greater Short-toed Lark

#054 🐦 Red Knot

#055 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#072 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#073 🐦 White stork

#079 🐦 Rock Dove

#083 🐦 Western Subalpine Warbler

#084 🐦 Sardinian Warbler

#086 🐦 Common house martin

#091 🐦 House Bunting

#092 🐦 Dunn's Lark

#099 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#102 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#103 🐦 Crested lark

#106 🐦 Common Moorhen

#112 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#131 🐦 Marbled Duck

#135 🐦 Black Kite

#139 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#143 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#144 🐦 Whimbrel

#149 🐦 Black-eared Wheatear

#153 🐦 Red-rumped Wheatear

#169 🐦 Common Redstart

#170 🐦 Western Bonelli's Warbler

#172 🐦 Iberian Chiffchaff

#174 🐦 Willow Warbler

#176 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#180 🐦 Crowned Sandgrouse

#188 🐦 Thick-billed Lark

#189 🐦 Pied Avocet

#191 🐦 Sand Martin

#196 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#198 🐦 Laughing Dove

#201 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#202 🐦 Great Skua

#209 🐦 Eurasian Blackcap

#212 🐦 African Desert Warbler

#214 🐦 Orphean Warbler

#216 🐦 Ruddy Shelduck

#217 🐦 West African Crested Tern

#222 🐦 Common Greenshank

#230 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

#240 🦎 Sahara Sand Viper

#242 🦎 Common Chameleon

#247 🦎 Stenodactylus mauritanicus

#248 🦎 Anderson's Short-fingered Gecko

#251 🦎 Helmethead Gecko

Common

#001 🦌 African Golden Wolf

#022 🐦 Greater Hoopoe-lark

#024 🐦 Bar-tailed Lark

#038 🐦 Grey Heron

#049 🐦 Long-Legged Buzzard

#052 🐦 Sanderling

#053 🐦 Dunlin

#064 🐦 Kentish Plover

#066 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#071 🐦 Slender-billed Gull

#076 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#077 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#081 🐦 Brown-necked Raven

#085 🐦 Cream-Colored Courser

#087 🐦 Little Egret

#093 🐦 Temminck's Lark

#094 🐦 Black-crowned Sparrow-lark

#100 🐦 Common Kestrel

#104 🐦 Thekla Lark

#110 🐦 Eurasian Oystercatcher

#114 🐦 Barn Swallow

#116 🐦 Caspian Tern

#117 🐦 Audouin's Gull

#121 🐦 Great Grey Shrike

#122 🐦 Woodchat Shrike

#124 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#125 🐦 Yellow-legged Gull

#126 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#137 🐦 Northern Gannet

#138 🐦 White Wagtail

#148 🐦 Desert Wheatear

#150 🐦 White-crowned Wheatear

#151 🐦 Black Wheatear

#154 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#157 🐦 Osprey

#158 🐦 House sparrow

#161 🐦 Desert Sparrow

#164 🐦 Great Cormorant

#166 🐦 Greater Flamingo

#171 🐦 Common Chiffchaff

#175 🐦 Eurasian Spoonbill

#177 🐦 Grey Plover

#199 🐦 Cricket Warbler

#207 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove

#211 🐦 Spectacled Warbler

#219 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#225 🐦 Common Redshank

#226 🐦 Fulvous Babbler

#233 🦎 Golden Fringe-fingered Lizard

#234 🦎 Duméril's Fringe-fingered Lizard

#237 🦎 Bibron's Agama

#238 🐸 African Green Toad

#239 🦎 Desert Horned Viper

Vagrants

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

#003 🦌 Sand Cat

#005 🦌 Lesser Egyptian Gerbil

#006 🦌 Tarabul's Gerbil

#007 🦌 Saharan Striped Polecat

#009 🦌 West Sahara hare

#016 🦌 Rüppell's Fox

#017 🦌 Fennec Fox

#018 🐦 Eurasian Sparrowhawk

#023 🐦 Barbary Partridge

#036 🐦 Bonelli's Eagle

#039 🐦 Purple Heron

#043 🐦 Common Pochard

#047 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#058 🐦 Temminck's Stint

#059 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#061 🐦 European Nightjar

#063 🐦 European Goldfinch

#065 🐦 Little Ringed Plover

#067 🐦 Houbara Bustard

#068 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#069 🐦 Black Tern

#070 🐦 European greenfinch

#074 🐦 Black Stork

#080 🐦 Pied Crow

#089 🐦 Corn Bunting

#090 🐦 Ortolan Bunting

#095 🐦 European Robin

#096 🐦 Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin

#097 🐦 Lanner Falcon

#101 🐦 European Pied Flycatcher

#108 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#109 🐦 Griffon Vulture

#123 🐦 Kelp Gull

#128 🐦 Common Linnet

#132 🐦 White-throated Bee-eater

#134 🐦 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

#140 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#141 🐦 Hooded Vulture

#142 🐦 Egyptian Vulture

#146 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#147 🐦 Leach's Storm Petrel

#152 🐦 Mourning Wheatear

#155 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#156 🐦 Eurasian Scops Owl

#162 🐦 Great White Pelican

#163 🐦 Red-billed Tropicbird

#167 🐦 Moussier's Redstart

#168 🐦 Black Redstart

#173 🐦 Wood Warbler

#179 🐦 Allen's Gallinule

#181 🐦 Spotted Sandgrouse

#182 🐦 Fea's Petrel

#184 🐦 Great Shearwater

#187 🐦 Common Bulbul

#190 🐦 Brown-throated martin

#192 🐦 Whinchat

#195 🐦 European Serin

#197 🐦 Garganey

#203 🐦 Roseate Tern

#205 🐦 Arctic Tern

#218 🐦 Lesser Crested Tern

#224 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#227 🐦 Common Blackbird

#228 🐦 Song Thrush

#231 🐦 Northern Lapwing

#232 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#235 🦎 Spotted Fringe-fingered Lizard

#241 🦎 Duméril's Wedge-snouted Skink

#243 🦎 Awl-headed Snake

#245 🦎 Simon's Desert Racer

#246 🦎 Western Sandfish

#249 🦎 Elegant Gecko

#250 🦎 Ringed Wall Gecko

#254 🦎 Sudan Mastigure

Marine

Seen offshore.

#014 🦌 Atlantic Humpbacked Dolphin

#015 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#115 🐦 European Storm-Petrel

#185 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#186 🐦 Manx Shearwater