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Learn the wildlife of Kinmen National Park

Taiwan

1,095 species have research-grade observations inside Kinmen National Park on iNaturalist. KnowKi turns the most recorded into short lessons with real photos, so you know what you're looking at before you go.

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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. Oriental Magpie-Robin Copsychus saularis109
  2. Common Hoopoe Upupa epops107
  3. Oriental Magpie Pica serica101
  4. Light-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis94
  5. Chinese Blackbird Turdus mandarinus85
  6. Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo78
  7. Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus76
  8. Fork-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga christinae71
  9. Yellow-billed Grosbeak Eophona migratoria67
  10. Greater Coucal Centropus sinensis66

Plants

  1. Bolly Beech Litsea glutinosa129
  2. Beach evening-primrose Oenothera drummondii114
  3. Santa Maria feverfew Parthenium hysterophorus97
  4. Goat Horns Strophanthus divaricatus93
  5. Drooping Prickly Pear Opuntia monacantha83
  6. Mile-a-minute vine Ipomoea cairica81
  7. Akeake Dodonaea viscosa76
  8. White leadtree Leucaena leucocephala75
  9. Hedge Sageretia Sageretia thea75
  10. Common gardenia Gardenia jasminoides75

Mammals

  1. Domestic Cat Felis catus11
  2. Pallas' Squirrel Callosciurus erythraeus5
  3. Lesser Asian Yellow Bat Scotophilus kuhlii3

Insects

  1. Common Mime Swallowtail Papilio clytia55
  2. Blue-spotted Crow Butterfly Euploea midamus44
  3. Red Ring Skirt Hestina assimilis44
  4. Common Mormon Swallowtail Papilio polytes43
  5. Ditch Jewel Brachythemis contaminata42
  6. Common Bluebottle Graphium sarpedon26
  7. Macrobrochis gigas26
  8. Brown Speckled Cicada Asianopleura hilpa26
  9. Pale Grass Blue Pseudozizeeria maha24
  10. Black and scarlet cicada Huechys sanguinea24

Reptiles

  1. Pond Slider Trachemys scripta28
  2. Chinese Stripe-necked Turtle Mauremys sinensis23
  3. Shanghai Elegant Skink Plestiodon elegans12
  4. Oriental House Gecko Hemidactylus bowringii11
  5. Oriental Rat Snake Ptyas mucosa10
  6. Mell's Gecko Gekko melli9
  7. Chinese Softshell Turtle Pelodiscus sinensis5
  8. Many-banded Krait Bungarus multicinctus3

Mollusks

  1. Tropical Leatherleaf Slug Laevicaulis alte18
  2. African Giant Snail Lissachatina fulica15
  3. Striated Little Trough Shell Atactodea striata6
  4. Sirius False Limpet Siphonaria sirius4
  5. Echinolittorina radiata4
  6. Liolophura sinensis4

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. Parks outside the U.S. are from the World Database on Protected Areas (UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, Protected Planet). KnowKi is not affiliated with the National Park Service or any park's managers. Free, with no ads, no account, and no purchases.