🇸🇭What animals live in Saint Helena?

34,344 animal records from Saint Helena cover 1,200+ species. The most-recorded are listed below, with what the record pattern says about each one.

• 34,344 records
• 1,200+ species
• 0 classes

Most-recorded animals in Saint Helena

	Animal	Group	Records
	southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina	Mammalia Phocidae	1,043
	White Tern Gygis alba	Aves Laridae	886
	Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos	Aves Diomedeidae	809
	great shearwater Puffinus gravis	Aves Procellariidae	807
	Sooty Albatross Phoebetria fusca	Aves Diomedeidae	728
	Spectacled Petrel Procellaria conspicillata	Aves Procellariidae	587
	Masked/Nazca Booby Sula dactylatra	Aves Sulidae	584
	Brown Noddy Anous stolidus	Aves Laridae	555
	Brown Skua Stercorarius antarcticus	Aves Stercorariidae	550
	Soft-plumaged Petrel Pterodroma mollis	Aves Procellariidae	542
	Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus	Aves Laridae	535
	Antarctic Tern Sterna vittata	Aves Laridae	524
	Common Myna Acridotheres tristis	Aves Sturnidae	481
	green turtle Chelonia mydas	Testudines Cheloniidae	462
	Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena	Aves Diomedeidae	451
	Red-billed/Red-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon aethereus	Aves Phaethontidae	445
	Black Noddy Anous minutus	Aves Laridae	411
	Ascension Frigatebird Fregata aquila	Aves Fregatidae	407
	Band-rumped Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma castro	Aves Hydrobatidae	378
	Southern Giant-Petrel Macronectes giganteus	Aves Procellariidae	368
	Atlantic Petrel Pterodroma incerta	Aves Procellariidae	356
	Brown Booby Sula leucogaster	Aves Sulidae	355
	Great-winged Petrel Pterodroma macroptera	Aves Procellariidae	333
	Moseley's Rockhopper Penguin Eudyptes moseleyi	Aves Spheniscidae	328
	Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild	Aves Estrildidae	318
	Yellow Canary Crithagra flaviventris	Aves Fringillidae	284
	White-bellied Storm-Petrel Fregetta grallaria	Aves Hydrobatidae	250
	Zebra Dove Geopelia striata	Aves Columbidae	244
	Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis	Aves Procellariidae	238
	Ascension bicolor damselfish Stegastes lubbocki	— Pomacentridae	233
	Broad-billed Prion Pachyptila vittata	Aves Procellariidae	226
	Tristan Klipfish Bovichtus diacanthus	— Bovichtidae	216
	Red-footed Booby Sula sula	Aves Sulidae	215
	Java Sparrow Lonchura oryzivora	Aves Estrildidae	211
	Squirrelfish Holocentrus adscensionis	— Holocentridae	207
	White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus	Aves Phaethontidae	204
	Tristan Thrush Nesocichla eremita	Aves Turdidae	204
	sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus	Mammalia Physeteridae	203
	Ascension wrasse Thalassoma ascensionis	— Labridae	194
	Saint Helena Gregory Stegastes sanctaehelenae	— Pomacentridae	190
	Red Fody Foudia madagascariensis	Aves Ploceidae	177
	southern right whale Eubalaena australis	Mammalia Balaenidae	169
	Gray Petrel Procellaria cinerea	Aves Procellariidae	166
	Greenfish Thalassoma sanctaehelenae	— Labridae	164
	Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris	Aves Diomedeidae	164
	Rock Pigeon Columba livia	Aves Columbidae	164
	Rock hind Epinephelus adscensionis	— Serranidae	164
	White-chinned Petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis	Aves Procellariidae	159
	Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea	Aves Laridae	155
	Black durgon triggerfish, Black triggerfish Melichthys niger	— Balistidae	149
	Ocean surgeon Acanthurus bahianus	— Acanthuridae	127
	Kerguelen Petrel Aphrodroma brevirostris	Aves Procellariidae	108
	Brown chromis Chromis multilineata	— Pomacentridae	106
	Gough Island Finch Rowettia goughensis	Aves Thraupidae	105
	Island hogfish Bodianus insularis	— Labridae	101
	Gough Moorhen Gallinula comeri	Aves Rallidae	98
	Black-bellied Storm-Petrel Fregetta tropica	Aves Hydrobatidae	98
	Cunningfish Chaetodon sanctaehelenae	— Chaetodontidae	97
	Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii	Aves Procellariidae	96
	Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans	Aves Diomedeidae	95