Portugal
What is recorded in Portugal
- Species
- 3,823
- Grid cells
- 23,053
- Records
- 6,364,854
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 3,073
- Birds 330
- Bony fish 264
- Mammals 57
- Reptiles 42
- Sharks and rays 34
- Amphibians 23
These are species with at least one recorded territory in Portugal, 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 Portugal, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscus
Spotless Starling
Sturnus unicolor
Sardinian Warbler
Curruca melanocephala
Yellow-legged Gull
Larus michahellis
European Serin
Serinus serinus
Common Blackbird
Turdus merula
Zitting Cisticola
Cisticola juncidis
European Stonechat
Saxicola rubicola
Eurasian Blackcap
Sylvia atricapilla
Black Redstart
Phoenicurus ochruros
White Wagtail
Motacilla alba
European Greenfinch
Chloris chloris
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under Portugal.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers Portugal on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.