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A wild animal pokedex: the mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects and other creatures you can actually spot in the Netherlands and Europe, plus famous animals from around the world. Dutch and English names, how endangered they are and lots of photos.

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species
6,897
seen in NL
2,719
threatened
307
photos
63,803
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Data: iNaturalist (species lists, names, research-grade wild observations, IUCN Red List status and Wikipedia intros), Wikidata (CC0: Dutch names, size, weight, lifespan, who named it) and GBIF (Dutch occurrence records). Pets, livestock and captive animals are left out. "Seen in NL" counts research-grade iNaturalist observations. Photos are Creative Commons licensed iNaturalist photos, shown from iNaturalist and credited on each animal's page.
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