Credits
Every photograph on Live Species with its credit, its licence and any change made to it, and every body whose count is shown. Each animal's page carries the same credit under its photo.
Photographs
Photo: Justin Philbois (iNaturalist), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC0 1.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Carter Atkinson / USGS (public domain)
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle for the home page; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (public domain)
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 2.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Murali K, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 2.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Rolandandika, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; shown whole on its own page and not used on its share image, a text-only card, so the photo stays unaltered.
Photo: Naturalist Tours (CC0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC0 1.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Bureau of Land Management (public domain)
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle for the home page; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Peter de Lange (CC0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC0 1.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Janice Waite, NOAA (public domain)
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Olin Feuerbacher / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (public domain)
Cut-out: Photo: Olin Feuerbacher / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (public domain); cut-out by Live Species
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle for the home page; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cut out for the home page; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Matthew Morgan, CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to take off a name printed in its corner; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: David Castor, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC0 1.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Bouke ten Cate, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Bart van Dorp, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 2.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle for the home page; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Reveriesun, CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: lwolfartist, CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 2.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Huaiqing Deng, from Deng & Zhou (2016) Scientific Reports 6: 23566, CC BY 4.0, cut out from the original
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; not used on its share image, a text-only card, since the photo is smaller than the card.
Photo: Ezequiel Racker, CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Frank Vassen, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 2.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle for the home page; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: T. Dixon / Zoological Society of London (1884), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; not used on its share image, a text-only card, since the photo is smaller than the card.
Photo: JJ Harrison, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; shown whole on its own page and not used on its share image, a text-only card, so the photo stays unaltered.
Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Midwest Region) (public domain)
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Zach Pezzillo, Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; shown whole on its own page and not used on its share image, a text-only card, so the photo stays unaltered.
Photo: Kimberley Collins, CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 2.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle for the home page; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Frank Vassen, CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 2.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; shown whole on its own page and not used on its share image, a text-only card, so the photo stays unaltered.
Photo: Dan Koehl, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 3.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; not used on its share image, a text-only card, since the photo is smaller than the card.
Photo: Jim Clark, USFWS (public domain)
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Monarch butterfly (eastern migratory population)
Photo: Lori Nordstrom / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (public domain)
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Monarch butterfly (western migratory population)
Photo: Joanna Gilkeson / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (public domain)
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Richard Ruggiero, USFWS (public domain)
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Department of Conservation (NZ), CC BY 4.0
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Northern bald ibis (Moroccan wild population)
Photo: William Stephens, CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: (c) State of Queensland, CC BY 4.0, cut out from the original
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; not used on its share image, a text-only card, since the photo is smaller than the card.
Photo: Karimi Ngore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; shown whole on its own page and not used on its share image, a text-only card, so the photo stays unaltered.
Photo: JJ Harrison, CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; shown whole on its own page and not used on its share image, a text-only card, so the photo stays unaltered.
Photo: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; shown whole on its own page and not used on its share image, a text-only card, so the photo stays unaltered.
Photo: Pablo Torres / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (public domain)
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Steve Hillebrand, USFWS (public domain)
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Mark Gillow, CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 2.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: NOAA (public domain)
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Larisa Artemyeva (Лариса Артемьева), iNaturalist, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC0 1.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Justin Philbois (iNaturalist), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC0 1.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Adrian Scottow, CC BY-SA 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; shown whole on its own page and not used on its share image, a text-only card, so the photo stays unaltered.
Photo: MostlyDross, CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 2.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: NOAA Fisheries (public domain)
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Etna 1984, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; shown whole on its own page and not used on its share image, a text-only card, so the photo stays unaltered.
Photo: International Rhino Foundation, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 2.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Pseudopanax (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Gregg Yan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; shown whole on its own page and not used on its share image, a text-only card, so the photo stays unaltered.
Photo: Tim Laman, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: James Telford, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: Paula Olson, NOAA (public domain)
Cut-out: Photo: Paula Olson, NOAA (public domain); cut-out by Live Species
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle for the home page; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cut out for the home page; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Photo: NOAA Fisheries (public domain)
Licence: Public domain
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Whooping crane (Aransas-Wood Buffalo population)
Photo: Klaus Nigge (for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY 2.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; cropped to a circle at the top of its own page on wider screens; cropped and overlaid with text for its share image.
Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Swinhoe's softshell)
Photo: Phuongcacanh, CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Changes by Live Species: resized; shown whole on its own page and not used on its share image, a text-only card, so the photo stays unaltered.
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Counting bodies
The figure on each animal's page is read at the publication of the body below. Their names appear to credit their work; none of them endorses Live Species.
Białowieża National Park, European Bison Pedigree Book 2024 (Księga Rodowodowa Żubrów 2024)
ICMBio via Agência Gov (Brazilian federal government news agency)
IUCN SSC Asian Rhino Specialist Group with TRAFFIC, report to CITES CoP20 (Doc. 84 Annex 3)
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India (PIB release, 14 May 2026)
National Trust for the Cayman Islands with RSPB, Darwin Plus project DPLUS163 annual report 2023-24
NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Fisheries Science Center (aerial survey)
NSW Government, Local Land Services (Natural Heritage Trust project)
Roesler et al. 2025, Bird Conservation International 35, e29, doi:10.1017/S0959270925100142
Squires et al. 2023, Oryx 58(3): 367-377 (Bali Barat National Park annual count data)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, California Condor Recovery Program
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Caribbean Ecological Services Field Office
U.S. National Park Service, Death Valley National Park, with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation (Western Monarch Count)
Also on this site
- The humans figure: World Population Prospects 2024, UN DESA, medium variant (CC BY 3.0 IGO).
- Land outlines on the Earth: Natural Earth (public domain).
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