French Guiana
What is recorded in French Guiana
- Species
- 4,164
- Grid cells
- 12,468
- Records
- 185,885
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 3,158
- Birds 387
- Bony fish 240
- Reptiles 136
- Amphibians 131
- Mammals 105
- Sharks and rays 7
These are species with at least one recorded territory in French Guiana, 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 Guiana, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Collared Peccary
Pecari tajacu
White-throated Toucan
Ramphastos tucanus
Channel-billed Toucan
Ramphastos vitellinus
White-lipped Peccary
Tayassu pecari
Guianan Brown Capuchin
Sapajus apella
Silver-beaked Tanager
Ramphocelus carbo
Red-faced Spider Monkey
Ateles paniscus
Grey-winged Trumpeter
Psophia crepitans
Grey-breasted Martin
Progne chalybea
Red-handed Tamarin
Saguinus midas
Common Squirrel Monkey
Saimiri sciureus
Brazilian Tapir
Tapirus terrestris
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under French Guiana.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers French Guiana on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.