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Learn the wildlife of the Bahamas

North & Central America

2,541 species have research-grade observations in the Bahamas on iNaturalist. KnowKi turns the most recorded into short lessons with real photos, so you can learn a country's wildlife from home.

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Most recorded here

The species with the most research-grade observations on iNaturalist, and how many each has. Most recorded doesn't mean native.

Birds

  1. Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla1,064
  2. Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea542
  3. Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos481
  4. Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres417
  5. Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum416
  6. Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina369
  7. Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto367
  8. Bananaquit Coereba flaveola367
  9. Green Heron Butorides virescens340
  10. Bahama Woodstar Nesophlox evelynae273

Plants

  1. Sea grape Coccoloba uvifera697
  2. Beach naupaka Scaevola taccada485
  3. Coconut palm Cocos nucifera367
  4. Seven-year Apple Casasia clusiifolia352
  5. Beach Sheoak Casuarina equisetifolia343
  6. Green Buttonwood Conocarpus erectus295
  7. Red mangrove Rhizophora mangle258
  8. Sea lavender Tournefortia gnaphalodes255
  9. Baycedar Suriana maritima190
  10. Poisonwood Metopium toxiferum181

Mammals

  1. Wild Boar Sus scrofa80
  2. Domestic Cat Felis catus77
  3. Common Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops truncatus60
  4. Buffy Flower Bat Erophylla sezekorni29
  5. Domestic Dog Canis familiaris28

Insects

  1. Western Honey Bee Apis mellifera221
  2. Black Witch Ascalapha odorata212
  3. Gulf Fritillary Dione vanillae199
  4. Julia Heliconian Dryas iulia116
  5. White Peacock Anartia jatrophae111
  6. Zebra Longwing Heliconius charithonia70
  7. Faithful Beauty Composia fidelissima59
  8. Atala Eumaeus atala55
  9. Mexican Fritillary Euptoieta hegesia49
  10. Band-winged Dragonlet Erythrodiplax umbrata48

Spiders and kin

  1. Golden Silk Spider Trichonephila clavipes178
  2. Spinybacked Orbweaver Gasteracantha cancriformis163
  3. Silver Garden Orbweaver Argiope argentata94
  4. Bahamian Tarantula Cyrtopholis bonhotei33
  5. Keys Bark Scorpion Centruroides guanensis27
  6. Gray Wall Jumping Spider Menemerus bivittatus26

Reptiles

  1. Brown Anole Anolis sagrei954
  2. Northern Curly-tailed Lizard Leiocephalus carinatus922
  3. Green Sea Turtle Chelonia mydas340
  4. Auber's Ameiva Pholidoscelis auberi248
  5. Green Iguana Iguana iguana227
  6. Tropical House Gecko Hemidactylus mabouia199
  7. Allen's Island Iguana Cyclura cychlura186
  8. Bahamian Racer Cubophis vudii180
  9. Bark Anole Anolis distichus129
  10. Bahamian Green Anole Anolis smaragdinus128

Amphibians

  1. Cuban Tree Frog Osteopilus septentrionalis338
  2. Bahamian Flat-headed Frog Eleutherodactylus rogersi95
  3. Greenhouse Frog Eleutherodactylus planirostris49

Fish

  1. Atlantic Sergeant Major Abudefduf saxatilis554
  2. Atlantic Blue Tang Acanthurus coeruleus440
  3. Caribbean Bluehead Wrasse Thalassoma bifasciatum411
  4. Schoolmaster Snapper Lutjanus apodus376
  5. Great Barracuda Sphyraena barracuda354
  6. Stoplight Parrotfish Sparisoma viride312
  7. French Grunt Haemulon flavolineatum292
  8. Yellowtail Snapper Ocyurus chrysurus242
  9. Bar Jack Caranx ruber236
  10. Gray Snapper Lutjanus griseus211

Mollusks

  1. West Indian Fuzzy Chiton Acanthopleura granulata376
  2. Queen Conch Aliger gigas357
  3. Four-toothed Nerite Nerita versicolor190
  4. West Indian Top Shell Cittarium pica170
  5. Cuban Brown Snail Zachrysia provisoria163
  6. Beaded Periwinkle Cenchritis muricatus150
  7. Checkered Nerite Nerita tessellata118
  8. Flamingo Tongue Snail Cyphoma gibbosum114
  9. Sunrise tellin Tellina radiata107
  10. Spotted seahare Aplysia dactylomela106

How a trip works

A trip has its own trail of lessons: meet six species, match them to new photos, then practice with four choices. Species you learn go into your Fieldbook, and starting a trip earns its Passport stamp. Your home place stays as it is.

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Species lists and counts from research-grade observations on iNaturalist, as of October 2026. Free, with no ads, no account and no purchases.