Taiwan
What is recorded in Taiwan
- Species
- 6,533
- Grid cells
- 47,304
- Records
- 16,704,191
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 4,083
- Bony fish 1,586
- Birds 576
- Reptiles 103
- Mammals 78
- Sharks and rays 59
- Amphibians 42
- Chimaeras 6
These are species with at least one recorded territory in Taiwan, not a national checklist: a bird list from eBird or Avibase is more complete. The counts follow recording effort as much as wildlife, so a country with more visitors and more naturalists will show more of both.
Most recorded here
The species with the most open occurrence records in Taiwan, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Light-vented Bulbul
Pycnonotus sinensis
Mountain Scops Owl
Otus spilocephalus
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Passer montanus
Little Egret
Egretta garzetta
Japanese White-eye
Zosterops japonicus
Spotted Dove
Spilopelia chinensis
Javan Myna
Acridotheres javanicus
Red Turtle Dove
Streptopelia tranquebarica
White-eared Sibia
Heterophasia auricularis
Taiwan Barbet
Psilopogon nuchalis
Black Drongo
Dicrurus macrocercus
Plain Prinia
Prinia inornata
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under Taiwan.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers Taiwan on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.