Türkiye
What is recorded in Türkiye
- Species
- 2,165
- Grid cells
- 8,682
- Records
- 575,231
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 1,465
- Bony fish 333
- Birds 264
- Reptiles 64
- Mammals 20
- Amphibians 16
- Sharks and rays 2
- Chimaeras 1
These are species with at least one recorded territory in Türkiye, 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 Türkiye, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Armenian Gull
Larus armenicus
Hooded Crow
Corvus cornix
Yellow-legged Gull
Larus michahellis
Pygmy Cormorant
Microcarbo pygmaeus
Syrian Woodpecker
Dendrocopos syriacus
Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseus
Pink drifts across Walvis Bay's lagoons after the rains.
Western Jackdaw
Coloeus monedula
White-spectacled Bulbul
Pycnonotus xanthopygos
Alpine Swift
Tachymarptis melba
Long-legged Buzzard
Buteo rufinus
Western Rock Nuthatch
Sitta neumayer
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
Iduna pallida
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under Türkiye.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers Türkiye on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.