Blonde ray
- Group
- Fish
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 7,660
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- Orkney Islands
Species recorded in Orkney Islands
299 species
Orkney Islands — county
Tamarisk Scalewort
- Group
- Liverworts
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 7,525
Beadlet Anemone
- Group
- Jellyfish, corals and anemones
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 7,465
Acorn Barnacle
- Group
- Crustaceans
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 7,241
Green Dock Beetle
- Group
- Beetles
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 6,957
Iceland Gull
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- January
- Records since 2000
- 6,693
Greasewort
- Group
- Liverworts
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 6,627
Bumblebee Blacklet
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 6,599
Bread-crumb sponge
- Group
- Sponges
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 6,532
Harbor porpoise
- Group
- Mammals
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 6,518
Eurasian Smoothwing
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 5,929
Furry Dronefly
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 5,653
Limnephilus marmoratus
- Group
- Caddisflies
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 5,591
Western Marsh-orchid
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 5,306
Glaucous Gull
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- January
- Records since 2000
- 5,212
Pectoral Sandpiper
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 4,746
Thrift
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 4,703
Woodland Red Ant
- Group
- Bees, wasps and ants
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 4,639
Yellow Starry Feather-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 4,629
Common Limpet
- Group
- Molluscs
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 4,578
Moss Carder Bee
- Group
- Bees, wasps and ants
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 4,573
Sea Plantain
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 4,391
Stoat
- Group
- Mammals
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 4,363
Red-backed Shrike
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 4,335
Blotch-winged Hoverfly
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 4,060
Lapland Longspur
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 4,008
Heath Bumble Bee
- Group
- Bees, wasps and ants
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 3,910
Black-eye Lichen
- Group
- Lichens
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 3,474
Sea campion
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 3,472
Spiral Wrack
- Group
- Seaweeds and algae
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 3,016
Silpha atrata
- Group
- Beetles
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 2,964
Rough Periwinkle
- Group
- Molluscs
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 2,933
Night-flying Dung Beetle
- Group
- Beetles
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 2,931
Channelled Wrack
- Group
- Seaweeds and algae
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 2,729
Cladophora rupestris
- Group
- Seaweeds and algae
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 2,725
Barred Warbler
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 2,598
Dovekie
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- November
- Records since 2000
- 2,594
Banded Sexton Beetle
- Group
- Beetles
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 2,587
Red-breasted Flycatcher
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 2,375
Blue rayed limpet
- Group
- Molluscs
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 2,309
Pepper Dulse
- Group
- Seaweeds and algae
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 2,286
Great Yellow Bumble Bee
- Group
- Bees, wasps and ants
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 2,144
Gypsy Cuckoo Bee
- Group
- Bees, wasps and ants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 2,141
Tree Wasp
- Group
- Bees, wasps and ants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 2,121
Common Flat Periwinkle
- Group
- Molluscs
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 1,870
Bluethroat
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 1,806
Common Rosefinch
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 1,758
Fuscidea lichen
- Group
- Lichens
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 1,569