Hen Harrier
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- January
- Records since 2000
- 14,659
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Species recorded in Orkney Islands
299 species
Orkney Islands — county
Snow Bunting
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- November
- Records since 2000
- 14,211
Golden Dung Fly
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 14,206
Ladder-backed Hover Fly
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 14,120
Yellow-browed Warbler
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 13,959
Ring Ouzel
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 13,904
Red-stemmed Feather-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 13,899
European green crab, Shore Crab
- Group
- Crustaceans
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 13,886
Glittering Wood-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 13,837
Bush Vetch
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 13,352
Horned Grebe
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- January
- Records since 2000
- 13,082
Toothed Wrack
- Group
- Seaweeds and algae
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 12,824
White Earwort
- Group
- Liverworts
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 12,767
Harbor seal
- Group
- Mammals
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 12,641
Jack Snipe
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 12,579
Fern-leaved Hook-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 12,557
Bladder Wrack
- Group
- Seaweeds and algae
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 12,111
Silverweed
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 12,032
Devil's-bit Scabious
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 11,742
Blue skate
- Group
- Fish
- Peak month
- November
- Records since 2000
- 11,417
Frizzled Pincushion
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 11,282
Little Shaggy-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 11,231
Colt's-foot
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 11,051
Tufted Vetch
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 10,953
Chalk Comb-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 10,936
Grey Field Slug
- Group
- Molluscs
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 10,855
Common Wasp, Common yellow jacket
- Group
- Bees, wasps and ants
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 10,694
Blunt-leaved Bog-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 10,519
Waved Silk-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 10,043
Hawfinch
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- January
- Records since 2000
- 9,785
Marsh-marigold
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 9,736
Brown-toed Forest Fly
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 9,719
Yellow-rattle
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 9,710
Rhingia campestris
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 9,678
Hover Fly
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 9,660
Black Swan
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 9,552
Migrant Hover Fly
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 9,218
Big Shaggy-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 8,933
Lustrous Bog-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 8,781
Dog Whelk
- Group
- Molluscs
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 8,771
Grey Top Shell
- Group
- Molluscs
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 8,765
Marsh Bryum
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 8,764
Woolly Fringe-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 8,619
Sooty shearwater
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 8,460
Bog Hoverfly
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 8,261
Coral Weed
- Group
- Seaweeds and algae
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 7,820
Common Periwinkle
- Group
- Molluscs
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 7,788
European Storm-Petrel
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 7,748