French Polynesia
What is recorded in French Polynesia
- Species
- 1,128
- Grid cells
- 4,716
- Records
- 86,138
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Bony fish 785
- Insects 234
- Birds 70
- Sharks and rays 15
- Mammals 12
- Reptiles 12
These are species with at least one recorded territory in French Polynesia, 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 French Polynesia, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
White Tern
Gygis alba
Brown Noddy
Anous stolidus
Zebra Dove
Geopelia striata
Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
Lonchura castaneothorax
Black Noddy
Anous minutus
Great Frigatebird
Fregata minor
Pacific Reef Heron
Egretta sacra
Lesser Frigatebird
Fregata ariel
White-tailed Tropicbird
Phaethon lepturus
Red-footed Booby
Sula sula
Red Junglefowl
Gallus gallus
Spinner Dolphin
Stenella longirostris
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under French Polynesia.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers French Polynesia on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.