Papua New Guinea
What is recorded in Papua New Guinea
- Species
- 2,433
- Grid cells
- 12,131
- Records
- 460,701
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 969
- Birds 628
- Bony fish 442
- Reptiles 178
- Mammals 94
- Amphibians 93
- Sharks and rays 29
These are species with at least one recorded territory in Papua New Guinea, 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 Papua New Guinea, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Helmeted Friarbird
Philemon buceroides
Glossy Swiftlet
Collocalia esculenta
Eclectus Parrot
Eclectus roratus
Red-capped Flowerpecker
Dicaeum geelvinkianum
Amboyna Cuckoo-Dove
Macropygia amboinensis
Coconut Lorikeet
Trichoglossus haematodus
Friendly Fantail
Rhipidura albolimbata
Smoky Honeyeater
Melipotes fumigatus
Red-cheeked Parrot
Geoffroyus geoffroyi
Belford's Melidectes
Melidectes belfordi
Yellow-faced Myna
Mino dumontii
Blyth's Hornbill
Rhyticeros plicatus
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under Papua New Guinea.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers Papua New Guinea on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.