Estonia
What is recorded in Estonia
- Species
- 5,151
- Grid cells
- 16,410
- Records
- 140,233
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 5,069
- Mammals 34
- Birds 29
- Bony fish 13
- Amphibians 3
- Reptiles 3
These are species with at least one recorded territory in Estonia, 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 Estonia, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Moose
Alces alces
Red Deer
Cervus elaphus
Wild Boar
Sus scrofa
Western Roe Deer
Capreolus capreolus
Northern Bat
Eptesicus nilssonii
Corn Crake
Crex crex
White-tailed Eagle
Haliaeetus albicilla
Raccoon Dog
Nyctereutes procyonoides
Hazel Grouse
Tetrastes bonasia
Thrush Nightingale
Luscinia luscinia
Western Capercaillie
Tetrao urogallus
Barnacle Goose
Branta leucopsis
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under Estonia.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers Estonia on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.