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Yemen wildlife

113 species in the Yemen dex: 35 Common, 39 Uncommon, 35 Rare, 4 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.

#099 🐦 European Roller

#191 🐦 Cotton Pygmy-goose

#265 🐦 White-Cheeked Tern

#266 🐦 Little Tern

Rare

#017 🐦 Northern Pintail

#018 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#020 🐦 Brown Noddy

#030 🐦 Greater spotted eagle

#040 🐦 Purple Heron

#042 🐦 Squacco Heron

#060 🐦 Sanderling

#069 🐦 Nubian Nightjar

#076 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#077 🐦 White-winged Tern

#078 🐦 Slender-billed Gull

#079 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#082 🐦 Abdim's Stork

#108 🐦 Cream-Colored Courser

#131 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#133 🐦 Crested lark

#148 🐦 Pheasant-tailed Jacana

#163 🐦 Caspian Gull

#165 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#176 🐦 Arabian Green Bee-eater

#177 🐦 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

#187 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#189 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#194 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#196 🐦 Namaqua Dove

#209 🐦 Bridled Tern

#220 🐦 Pink-Backed Pelican

#226 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#227 🐦 Lesser Flamingo

#238 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#260 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#264 🐦 Common Tern

#267 🐦 Saunders's Tern

#280 🐦 Little Grebe

#288 🐦 Sacred Ibis

Uncommon

#002 🦌 Arabian Mouse-tailed Bat

#028 🐦 Forbes-Watson's Swift

#036 🐦 Great Egret

#041 🐦 Indian Pond Heron

#044 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#051 🐦 Cattle Egret

#065 🐦 Little Stint

#074 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#075 🐦 Greater Sand Plover

#093 🐦 Socotra Cisticola

#100 🐦 Fan-tailed Raven

#120 🐦 Socotra Bunting

#122 🐦 Cinnamon-breasted Bunting

#127 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#132 🐦 Red-Knobbed Coot

#134 🐦 Common snipe

#136 🐦 Common Moorhen

#137 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#149 🐦 Caspian Tern

#179 🐦 Black Kite

#200 🐦 Isabelline Wheatear

#213 🐦 Socotra Scops-owl

#214 🐦 Osprey

#215 🐦 House sparrow

#222 🐦 Red-billed Tropicbird

#228 🐦 Greater Flamingo

#236 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#237 🐦 Rüppell's Weaver

#239 🐦 Grey Plover

#245 🐦 Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse

#246 🐦 Pale Crag-martin

#250 🐦 White-spectacled Bulbul

#253 🐦 Socotra Golden-winged Grosbeak

#261 🐦 Garganey

#271 🐦 Masked Booby

#287 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#289 🐦 Bruce's Green Pigeon

#291 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#293 🐦 Green sandpiper

Common

#009 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#024 🐦 Long-billed Pipit

#037 🐦 Grey Heron

#056 🐦 Socotra Buzzard

#067 🐦 Temminck's Stint

#072 🐦 Socotra Sunbird

#073 🐦 Kentish Plover

#097 🐦 Rock Dove

#101 🐦 Brown-necked Raven

#102 🐦 House crow · introduced

#114 🐦 Little Egret

#115 🐦 Western reef heron

#123 🐦 Black-crowned Sparrow-lark

#129 🐦 Common Kestrel

#146 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#147 🐦 Barn Swallow

#150 🐦 Sooty Gull

#154 🐦 Socotra Warbler

#156 🐦 Great Grey Shrike

#164 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#184 🐦 White Wagtail

#190 🐦 Egyptian Vulture

#192 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#193 🐦 Whimbrel

#198 🐦 Desert Wheatear

#206 🐦 Somali Starling

#207 🐦 Socotra Starling

#218 🐦 Socotra Sparrow

#224 🐦 Socotra Cormorant

#262 🐦 Laughing Dove

#272 🐦 Brown Booby

#285 🐦 Lesser Crested Tern

#286 🐦 Greater Crested Tern

#292 🐦 Common Greenshank

#306 🐦 Socotra White-eye

Vagrants

204

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

#001 🦌 Lanza's Pipistrelle

#004 🐦 Eurasian Sparrowhawk

#005 🐦 Marsh Warbler

#006 🐦 Sedge Warbler

#007 🐦 Eurasian Reed Warbler

#008 🐦 Clamorous Reed Warbler

#010 🐦 Himalayan Swiftlet

#011 🐦 Greater Hoopoe-lark

#012 🐦 Arabian Partridge

#013 🐦 Philby's Partridge

#014 🐦 Orange-breasted Waxbill

#015 🐦 White-breasted Waterhen

#016 🐦 Desert Lark

#019 🐦 Mallard

#021 🐦 Demoiselle Crane

#022 🐦 Tawny Pipit

#023 🐦 Red-throated Pipit

#025 🐦 Tree pipit

#026 🐦 Little Swift

#027 🐦 Common Swift

#029 🐦 Golden Eagle

#031 🐦 Bonelli's Eagle

#032 🐦 Eastern Imperial Eagle

#033 🐦 Steppe Eagle

#034 🐦 Tawny Eagle

#035 🐦 Verreaux's Eagle

#038 🐦 Goliath Heron

#039 🐦 Black-Headed Heron

#043 🐦 Arabian Bustard

#045 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#046 🐦 Little Owl

#047 🐦 Common Pochard

#048 🐦 Tufted Duck

#049 🐦 Ferruginous Duck

#050 🐦 Spotted Eagle-owl

#053 🐦 Spotted Thick-knee

#054 🐦 Common Buzzard

#055 🐦 Long-Legged Buzzard

#057 🐦 Striated Heron

#058 🐦 Blanford's Lark

#059 🐦 Greater Short-toed Lark

#061 🐦 Dunlin

#062 🐦 Red Knot

#063 🐦 Broad-billed Sandpiper

#064 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#066 🐦 Ruff

#068 🐦 European Nightjar

#070 🐦 White-browed Coucal

#071 🐦 Black Scrub Robin

#080 🐦 Diederik Cuckoo

#081 🐦 Klaas's Cuckoo

#083 🐦 White stork

#084 🐦 Black Stork

#085 🐦 Violet-backed Starling

#086 🐦 Arabian Sunbird

#087 🐦 Palestine Sunbird

#088 🐦 Short-toed Eagle

#089 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#090 🐦 Hen Harrier

#091 🐦 Pallid Harrier

#092 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#094 🐦 Zitting Cisticola

#095 🐦 Jacobin Cuckoo

#096 🐦 African Olive Pigeon

#098 🐦 Abyssinian Roller

#103 🐦 Common Quail

#104 🐦 Corn Crake

#105 🐦 Yemen Serin

#106 🐦 Arabian Serin

#107 🐦 Common Cuckoo

#109 🐦 African Palm Swift

#110 🐦 Common house martin

#111 🐦 Arabian Woodpecker

#112 🐦 White-faced Whistling-Duck

#113 🐦 Crab-Plover

#116 🐦 Intermediate egret

#117 🐦 Black-winged Kite

#118 🐦 Cinereous Bunting

#119 🐦 Ortolan Bunting

#121 🐦 Striolated Bunting

#124 🐦 Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin

#125 🐦 Arabian Waxbill

#126 🐦 African Silverbill

#128 🐦 Eurasian Hobby

#130 🐦 Christmas Frigatebird

#135 🐦 Pin-tailed Snipe

#138 🐦 Black-winged Pratincole

#139 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#140 🐦 Bearded Vulture

#141 🐦 Griffon Vulture

#142 🐦 Eurasian Oystercatcher

#143 🐦 Grey-headed Kingfisher

#144 🐦 Nile Valley Sunbird

#145 🐦 Booted Eagle

#151 🐦 Pallas's Gull

#152 🐦 White-eyed Gull

#153 🐦 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler

#155 🐦 Red-backed Shrike

#157 🐦 Isabelline Shrike

#158 🐦 Lesser Grey Shrike

#159 🐦 Masked Shrike

#160 🐦 Red-tailed Shrike

#161 🐦 Somali Fiscal

#162 🐦 Armenian Gull

#166 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#167 🐦 Yemen Linnet

#168 🐦 African Grey Hornbill

#169 🐦 Common Nightingale

#170 🐦 Bluethroat

#171 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#172 🐦 Gadwall

#173 🐦 Bimaculated Lark

#174 🐦 Dark Chanting-goshawk

#175 🐦 White-throated Bee-eater

#178 🐦 Gabar Goshawk

#180 🐦 Singing Bush Lark

#181 🐦 Little Rock Thrush

#182 🐦 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush

#183 🐦 Blue rock thrush

#185 🐦 Grey Wagtail

#186 🐦 Citrine Wagtail

#188 🐦 Gambaga Flycatcher

#197 🐦 Red-breasted Wheatear

#199 🐦 Black-eared Wheatear

#201 🐦 Mourning Wheatear

#202 🐦 Arabian Wheatear

#203 🐦 Blackstart

#204 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#205 🐦 Pied Wheatear

#208 🐦 Tristram's Starling

#210 🐦 Sooty Tern

#211 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#212 🐦 Arabian Scops Owl

#216 🐦 Arabian Golden Sparrow

#217 🐦 Abd al Kuri Sparrow

#219 🐦 Great White Pelican

#221 🐦 European Honey Buzzard

#223 🐦 Great Cormorant

#225 🐦 Red Phalarope

#229 🐦 Black Redstart

#230 🐦 Common Redstart

#231 🐦 Common Chiffchaff

#232 🐦 Wood Warbler

#233 🐦 Willow Warbler

#234 🐦 Brown Woodland Warbler

#235 🐦 Eurasian Spoonbill

#240 🐦 Little Crake

#241 🐦 Spotted Crake

#242 🐦 Graceful Prinia

#243 🐦 Radde's Accentor

#244 🐦 Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse

#247 🐦 Eurasian Crag Martin

#248 🐦 Flesh-footed shearwater

#251 🐦 Pied Avocet

#252 🐦 Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak

#254 🐦 Sand Martin

#255 🐦 Siberian Stonechat

#256 🐦 European Stonechat

#257 🐦 African stonechat

#258 🐦 Hamerkop

#259 🐦 Streaked Scrub Warbler

#263 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#268 🐦 Dusky Turtle Dove

#269 🐦 African Collared Dove

#270 🐦 Red-eyed Dove

#273 🐦 Eurasian Blackcap

#274 🐦 Yemen Warbler

#275 🐦 Eastern Orphean Warbler

#276 🐦 Lesser Whitethroat

#277 🐦 Arabian Warbler

#278 🐦 Menetries's Warbler

#279 🐦 Barred Warbler

#281 🐦 Alpine Swift

#282 🐦 Common Shelduck

#283 🐦 Black-crowned Tchagra

#284 🐦 African Paradise Flycatcher

#290 🐦 Spotted Redshank

#294 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#295 🐦 Common Redshank

#296 🐦 Arabian Babbler

#297 🐦 Yemen Thrush

#298 🐦 Song Thrush

#299 🐦 Barn Owl

#300 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

#301 🐦 Sociable Lapwing

#302 🐦 White-tailed Lapwing

#303 🐦 Spur-winged Lapwing

#304 🐦 Terek Sandpiper

#305 🐦 Abyssinian White-eye

#307 🦎 Socotra Chameleon

#309 🦎 Günther's Racer

#310 🦎 Socotra Giant Gecko

#311 🦎 Pygmy Socotran Leaf-toed Gecko

#312 🦎 Socotra Leaf-toed Gecko

#313 🦎 Grant's Leaf-toedGecko

#314 🦎 Socotran Rock Gecko

#315 🦎 Sharpnose Leaf-toed Gecko

#316 🦎 Socotra Sand Lizard

#317 🦎 Short Worm Lizard

#318 🦎 Abdel Kuri Rock Gecko

#319 🦎 Blanford's Rock Gecko

#320 🦎 Haggier Massif Rock Gecko

#321 🦎 Socotra Rock Gecko

#322 🦎 Socotra Skink

Marine

Seen offshore.

#003 🦌 Spinner Dolphin

#052 🐦 Jouanin's Petrel

#195 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#249 🐦 Persian Shearwater

#308 🦎 Green Turtle