Animals that start with B
362 animals, sorted from the ones everyone says first to the ones almost nobody thinks of. 68 of them are in the Rare tier or rarer.
- 56 Plankton
- 125 Too Clever
- 113 Schooler
- 46 Rare
- 18 Deep Cut
- 4 One in a Krillion
Rare but real
Names that are easy to defend and hard to guess. Good when you need an answer no one else will have.
- Baldpate
- A widgeon the male of which has a white crown.
- Barren ground caribou
- Of tundra of northern Canada.
- Black-winged stilt
- Stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings.
- Blanquillo
- Important marine food fishes.
- Bonnet macaque
- Indian macaque with a bonnet-like tuft of hair.
- Bottle-nosed whale
- Northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead.
All 362 animals that start with B
Sorted by search interest, most familiar first. The last column is average monthly US Google searches.
Showing all 362. Tap a name to copy it.
| Name | What it is | Group | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws. | Mammals | Plankton | 4.1M | |
| also Bronc, Bronchobreed | An unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang. | Mammals | Plankton | 2.7M |
| A conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox'. | Mammals | Plankton | 1.2M | |
| also Baltimore bird, Hangbird, Firebird | Eastern subspecies of northern oriole. | Birds | Plankton | 1M |
| also Chinch | Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood. | Insects | Plankton | 823K |
| Any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs. | Reptiles | Plankton | 550K | |
| also Bay lynx | Small lynx of North America. | Mammals | Plankton | 550K |
| breed | A breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany. | Mammals | Plankton | 550K |
| Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings. | Insects | Plankton | 550K | |
| breed | Large powerful long-haired black-coated Swiss dog with deep tan or russet markings on legs and white blaze and feet and chest marking. | Mammals | Plankton | 450K |
| Venomous New World spider. | Spiders & arachnids | Plankton | 450K | |
| breed | Developed in the area between Scotland and England usually having a black coat with white on the head and tip of tail used for herding both sheep and cattle. | Mammals | Plankton | 450K |
| also Bunny rabbit | (usually informal) especially a young rabbit. | Mammals | Plankton | 450K |
| also Chiropteran | Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate. | Mammals | Plankton | 368K |
| breed | A small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound. | Mammals | Plankton | 368K |
| also Old World buffalo | Any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo. | Mammals | Plankton | 368K |
| also English bulldogbreed | A sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw. | Mammals | Plankton | 368K |
| Large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail. | Mammals | Plankton | 301K | |
| Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species. | Insects | Plankton | 301K | |
| also Beef cattlebreed | Cattle that are reared for their meat. | Mammals | Plankton | 301K |
| also Fisher, Pekan, Fisher cat | Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal. | Mammals | Plankton | 301K |
| also Sleuthhoundbreed | A breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking. | Mammals | Plankton | 301K |
| also Pygmy chimpanzee | Small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire. | Mammals | Plankton | 301K |
| also Humblebee | Robust hairy social bee of temperate regions. | Insects | Plankton | 301K |
| Sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws. | Mammals | Plankton | 246K | |
| A large eagle of North America that has a white head and dark wings and body. | Birds | Plankton | 246K | |
| also Bassetbreed | Smooth-haired breed of hound with short legs and long ears. | Mammals | Plankton | 246K |
| also Boston terrierbreed | Small pug-faced American terrier breed having a smooth brindle or black coat with white markings. | Mammals | Plankton | 246K |
| Any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth. | Fish | Plankton | 201K | |
| Nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes. | Fish | Plankton | 201K | |
| Any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns. | Mammals | Plankton | 201K | |
| Large Australian swan having black plumage and a red bill. | Birds | Plankton | 201K | |
| also Jaybird | Common jay of eastern North America. | Birds | Plankton | 201K |
| also Sulfur bottom | Largest mammal ever known. | Mammals | Plankton | 201K |
| breed | A powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers. | Mammals | Plankton | 201K |
| Large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles. | Mammals | Plankton | 165K | |
| Mottled buff and white owl often inhabiting barns and other structures. | Birds | Plankton | 165K | |
| Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings. | Insects | Plankton | 165K | |
| Any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area. | Birds | Plankton | 165K | |
| also American black bear | Brown to black North American bear. | Mammals | Plankton | 165K |
| also Russian wolfhoundbreed | Tall fast-moving dog breed. | Mammals | Plankton | 165K |
| General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate. | Insects | Plankton | 165K | |
| breed | Small smooth-haired breed of African origin having a tightly curled tail and the inability to bark. | Mammals | Plankton | 135K |
| Small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs. | Reptiles | Plankton | 135K | |
| also Bearcat | Arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair. | Mammals | Plankton | 135K |
| breed | A gun dog trained to locate or retrieve birds. | Mammals | Plankton | 135K |
| Slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons. | Fish | Plankton | 135K | |
| breed | Large powerful breed developed by crossing the bulldog and the mastiff. | Mammals | Plankton | 135K |
| also Cub shark | A most common shark in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide. | Fish | Plankton | 135K |
| also Cirriped, Cirripede | Marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages. | Crustaceans | Plankton | 110K |
| Large owl of eastern North America having its breast and abdomen streaked with brown. | Birds | Plankton | 110K | |
| Large harmless plankton-eating northern shark. | Fish | Plankton | 110K | |
| A highly venomous southern African mamba dreaded because of its quickness and readiness to bite. | Reptiles | Plankton | 110K | |
| also Merl, Merle, Ouzel | Common black European thrush. | Birds | Plankton | 110K |
| Important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States. | Fish | Plankton | 110K | |
| also Griffon, Belgian griffonbreed | Breed of various very small compact wiry-coated dogs of Belgian origin having a short bearded muzzle. | Mammals | Plankton | 110K |
| also White-faced hornet | North American hornet. | Insects | Too Clever | 91K |
| Bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America. | Crustaceans | Too Clever | 91K | |
| Large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns. | Mammals | Too Clever | 91K | |
| breed | Tall active short-tailed French breed of bird dog having a usually smooth orange- or liver-and-white coat. | Mammals | Too Clever | 91K |
| also Apatosaur, Apatosaurus, Brontosaurus | Huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 91K |
| Large ferocious bear of Eurasia. | Mammals | Too Clever | 91K | |
| Largest North American frog. | Amphibians | Too Clever | 91K | |
| breed | Any of various small breeds of fowl. | Birds | Too Clever | 74K |
| Southern short-haired tiger. | Mammals | Too Clever | 74K | |
| Any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild. | Mammals | Too Clever | 74K | |
| also Raptor | Any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals. | Birds | Too Clever | 74K |
| Blue North American songbird. | Birds | Too Clever | 74K | |
| Blowfly with iridescent blue body. | Insects | Too Clever | 74K | |
| breed | A very fast American hound. | Mammals | Too Clever | 74K |
| also Constrictor constrictor | Very large boa of tropical America and West Indies. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 74K |
| also Budgerigar, Budgereegah, Budgerygah | Small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors. | Birds | Too Clever | 74K |
| also Belgian sheepdogbreed | Hardy working dog developed in Belgium for herding sheep. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Hausen, White sturgeon | Valuable source of caviar and isinglass. | Fish | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Aberdeen Angus, Angusbreed | Black hornless breed from Scotland. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Sockeye, Sockeye salmon, Red salmon | Small salmon with red flesh. | Fish | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Bluefin | Largest tuna. | Fish | Too Clever | 61K |
| breed | Small rough-coated terrier of British origin. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Box tortoise | Chiefly terrestrial turtle of North America. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Galago, Bush baby | Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K |
| The common European short-winged hawk. | Birds | Too Clever | 61K | |
| also Chimney swallow | Common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc. | Birds | Too Clever | 50K |
| also Lammergeier, Lammergeyer | The largest Eurasian bird of prey. | Birds | Too Clever | 50K |
| also Bighorn, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep | Wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns. | Mammals | Too Clever | 50K |
| Fox squirrel or grey squirrel in the black color phase. | Mammals | Too Clever | 50K | |
| also Blue cat, Blue channel catfish, Blue channel cat | A large catfish of the Mississippi valley. | Fish | Too Clever | 50K |
| Stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals. | Insects | Too Clever | 50K | |
| also Bowhead whale, Greenland whale | Large-mouthed Arctic whale. | Mammals | Too Clever | 50K |
| also Brant, Brant goose, Brent goose | Small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward. | Birds | Too Clever | 50K |
| also Speckled trout | North American freshwater trout. | Fish | Too Clever | 50K |
| Any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 50K | |
| breed | A short-haired breed with body similar to the Siamese cat but having a solid dark brown or grey coat. | Mammals | Too Clever | 50K |
| Any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K | |
| breed | A light terrier groomed to resemble a lamb. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K |
| Musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K | |
| also Tautog | Large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America. | Fish | Too Clever | 41K |
| also Black racer | Blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 41K |
| Largest marlin. | Fish | Too Clever | 41K | |
| also Salmon trout | Speckled trout of European rivers. | Fish | Too Clever | 41K |
| Small donkey used as a pack animal. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K | |
| also Stromateid fish, Stromateid | Small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines. | Fish | Too Clever | 41K |
| Red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales. | Fish | Too Clever | 33K | |
| also Rabbit-eared bandicoot, Rabbit bandicoot | Bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit. | Mammals | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Punkie, Punky, Punkey | Minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects. | Insects | Too Clever | 33K |
| A dusky duck of northeastern United States and Canada. | Birds | Too Clever | 33K | |
| African rhino. | Mammals | Too Clever | 33K | |
| also Carrion crow | American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard. | Birds | Too Clever | 33K |
| Chickadee having a dark crown. | Birds | Too Clever | 33K | |
| Widely distributed shallow-water shark with fins seemingly dipped in ink. | Fish | Too Clever | 33K | |
| also Great blue shark | Slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark. | Fish | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Deathwatch | Minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers. | Insects | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Bottle-nosed dolphin, Bottlenose | Any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak. | Mammals | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Bouviers des Flandresbreed | Rough-coated breed used originally in Belgium for herding and guarding cattle. | Mammals | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Brahma | Any of several breeds of Indian cattle. | Mammals | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Brown thrush | Common large songbird of eastern United States having reddish-brown plumage. | Birds | Too Clever | 33K |
| Any toad of the genus Bufo. | Amphibians | Too Clever | 33K | |
| also Pilot blacksnake, Mountain blacksnake | Large harmless shiny black North American snake. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 27K |
| also Buffalo gnat | Small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae. | Insects | Too Clever | 27K |
| also Meloid | Beetle that produces a secretion that blisters the skin. | Insects | Too Clever | 27K |
| A segmented marine worm with bright red body. | Worms | Too Clever | 27K | |
| also Puffer, Pufferfish, Globefish | Any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe. | Fish | Too Clever | 27K |
| Bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters. | Fish | Too Clever | 27K | |
| also Bobwhite quail | A popular North American game bird. | Birds | Too Clever | 27K |
| Greyish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton. | Insects | Too Clever | 27K | |
| Beetle that ejects audibly a pungent vapor when disturbed. | Insects | Too Clever | 27K | |
| Any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas. | Fish | Too Clever | 27K | |
| also Shovelhead, Bonnet shark | Small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head. | Fish | Too Clever | 27K |
| also Grindle | Primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin. | Fish | Too Clever | 27K |
| Common to saline lakes. | Crustaceans | Too Clever | 27K | |
| also Dipper | Small North American diving duck. | Birds | Too Clever | 27K |
| also Bustard quail, Hemipode | Small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe. | Birds | Too Clever | 27K |
| also Pooch, Doggie, Doggybreed | Informal terms for dogs. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Cattalobreed | Hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K |
| Greyish-blue North American kingfisher with a chestnut band on its chest. | Birds | Too Clever | 22K | |
| Red fox in the color phase when its pelt is mostly black. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K | |
| Night heron of both Old and New Worlds. | Birds | Too Clever | 22K | |
| Parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans. | Spiders & arachnids | Too Clever | 22K | |
| also Chen caerulescens | North American wild goose having dark plumage in summer but white in winter. | Birds | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Bonito shark | Common blue-grey shark of southwest Pacific. | Fish | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Cootie | A parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings. | Insects | Too Clever | 22K |
| Any of numerous medium to small insectivorous bats found worldwide in caves and trees and buildings. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K | |
| Any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America. | Birds | Too Clever | 22K | |
| Elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth. | Fish | Too Clever | 22K | |
| Hairy nectar-eating fly that resembles a bee. | Insects | Too Clever | 18K | |
| also Lamellibranch | Marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together. | Molluscs | Too Clever | 18K |
| Fish of the lower Mississippi. | Fish | Too Clever | 18K | |
| A crappie that is black. | Fish | Too Clever | 18K | |
| Large game fish in the Pacific Ocean. | Fish | Too Clever | 18K | |
| also Centropistes striata | Bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States. | Fish | Too Clever | 18K |
| breed | American breed of large powerful hound dogs used for hunting raccoons and other game. | Mammals | Too Clever | 18K |
| also Blacktail deer, Blacktail | Mule deer of western Rocky Mountains. | Mammals | Too Clever | 18K |
| also Oriental cockroach, Oriental roach, Asiatic cockroach | Dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution. | Insects | Too Clever | 18K |
| Common Indian antelope with a dark back and spiral horns. | Mammals | Too Clever | 18K | |
| also Lamp shell, Lampshell | Marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food. | Other invertebrates | Too Clever | 18K |
| breed | Old French breed of large strong usually black dogs having a long tail and long wavy and slightly stiff coat. | Mammals | Too Clever | 18K |
| also Serpent star | An animal resembling a starfish with fragile whiplike arms radiating from a small central disc. | Other invertebrates | Too Clever | 18K |
| also Polyzoan, Sea mat, Sea moss | Sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles. | Other invertebrates | Too Clever | 18K |
| Any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley. | Fish | Too Clever | 18K | |
| Two-humped camel of the cold deserts of central Asia. | Mammals | Too Clever | 15K | |
| also Common water snake | In some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 15K |
| Of southwest United States and Mexico. | Amphibians | Too Clever | 15K | |
| Bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins. | Fish | Too Clever | 15K | |
| also German bee | Dark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin. | Insects | Too Clever | 15K |
| A carpet beetle that is solid black in color. | Insects | Too Clever | 15K | |
| also Blackburnian warbler | Black-and-white North American wood warbler having an orange-and-black head and throat. | Birds | Too Clever | 15K |
| North American warbler having a black-and-white head. | Birds | Too Clever | 15K | |
| also Bluewing | American teal. | Birds | Too Clever | 15K |
| breed | Large hardy brown breed of dairy cattle from Switzerland. | Mammals | Too Clever | 15K |
| also Bullhead | Any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States. | Fish | Too Clever | 15K |
| Small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins. | Fish | Too Clever | 15K | |
| also Babiroussa, Babirussa | Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth. | Mammals | Too Clever | 12K |
| Small brightly colored stout-billed tropical bird having short weak wings. | Birds | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Rather large North American brown bat. | Mammals | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry. | Birds | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family). | Fish | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly. | Insects | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Bluish-green blacksnake found from Ohio to Texas. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Any fish of the class Osteichthyes. | Fish | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females. | Birds | Too Clever | 12K | |
| also Sea bream | Any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae. | Fish | Too Clever | 12K |
| Minute crustaceans forming food for right whales. | Crustaceans | Too Clever | 12K | |
| An orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily. | Spiders & arachnids | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| also Basket fish | Any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc. | Other invertebrates | Schooler | 9.9K |
| Any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| also Stone marten | Eurasian marten having a brown coat with pale breast and throat. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K |
| also Roof rat | Common household pest originally from Asia that has spread worldwide. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K |
| also Sperm whale, Cachalot | Large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K |
| A variety of Arctic fox having a pale grey winter coat. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| also Coho, Cohoe, Coho salmon | Small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes. | Fish | Schooler | 9.9K |
| breed | Siamese cat having a bluish cream-colored body and dark grey points. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K |
| also Tomtit | Widely distributed European titmouse with bright cobalt blue wings and tail and crown of the head. | Birds | Schooler | 9.9K |
| also Ricebird, Reedbird | Migratory American songbird. | Birds | Schooler | 9.9K |
| Minute arachnid sometimes found in old papers. | Spiders & arachnids | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| Hollow-horned ruminants. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| breed | Horse of a light yellowish dun color with dark mane and tail. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K |
| Freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines. | Fish | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| Active grey titmice of western North America. | Birds | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| Small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees. | Insects | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| also Mexican beaded lizard | Lizard with black and yellowish beadlike scales. | Reptiles | Schooler | 8.1K |
| Giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw. | Fish | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| Small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown. | Birds | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| also Schistosome | Flatworms parasitic in the blood vessels of mammals. | Worms | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Cooper's hawk | Bluish-grey North American hawk having a darting flight. | Birds | Schooler | 8.1K |
| Fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil. | Fish | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| also Bottom-dweller | A fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water. | Fish | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Trunkfish | Any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates. | Fish | Schooler | 8.1K |
| Massive reef-building coral having a convoluted and furrowed surface. | Other invertebrates | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| also Brood hen, Broody hen, Setting henbreed | A domestic hen ready to brood. | Birds | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Strand wolf | Of southern Africa. | Mammals | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Norway rat | Common domestic rat. | Mammals | Schooler | 8.1K |
| Common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast. | Birds | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| Large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight. | Birds | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| A small scallop inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats of the Atlantic coast of North America. | Molluscs | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| also Milvus migrans | Dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion. | Birds | Schooler | 6.6K |
| The common jackrabbit of grasslands and open areas of western United States. | Mammals | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| also Worm snake | Wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes. | Reptiles | Schooler | 6.6K |
| also American creeper | A common creeper in North America with a down-curved bill. | Birds | Schooler | 6.6K |
| also Browntail | Small brown and white European moth introduced into eastern United States. | Insects | Schooler | 6.6K |
| Nightingale spoken of in Persian poetry. | Birds | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| Western subspecies of northern oriole. | Birds | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| also Band-tail pigeon, Bandtail | Wild pigeon of western North America. | Birds | Schooler | 5.4K |
| Tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar. | Mammals | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| also Aoudad, Arui, Audad | Wild sheep of northern Africa. | Mammals | Schooler | 5.4K |
| European goose smaller than the brant. | Birds | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| also Black rudderfish | Blackish fish of New England waters. | Fish | Schooler | 5.4K |
| Common Indian weaverbird. | Birds | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| also Squareflipper square flipper | Medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle. | Mammals | Schooler | 5.4K |
| Stilt of southwestern United States to northern South America having black plumage extending from the head down the back of the neck. | Birds | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| European food fish. | Fish | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| Any of the large fierce Australian ants of the genus Myrmecia. | Insects | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| Large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns. | Birds | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| Predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites. | Insects | Schooler | 4.4K | |
| also Great black-backed gull | White gull having a black back and wings. | Birds | Schooler | 4.4K |
| Large waxwing of northern North America. | Birds | Schooler | 4.4K | |
| Deep-sea fishes. | Fish | Schooler | 4.4K | |
| Any of several geckos with dark bands across the body and differing from typical geckos in having movable eyelids. | Reptiles | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| Any of several insects living on the bark of plants. | Insects | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| Colorful chiefly tropical Old World bird having a strong graceful flight. | Birds | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| also Leporide | Red breed of domestic rabbits. | Mammals | Schooler | 3.6K |
| Large carnivorous Old World bat with very large ears. | Mammals | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| also Rice weevil | Brown weevil that infests stored grain especially rice. | Insects | Schooler | 3.6K |
| also Combtooth blenny | Small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores. | Fish | Schooler | 3.6K |
| also Nilgai, Nylghai, Nylghau | Large Indian antelope. | Mammals | Schooler | 3.6K |
| also Scaup, Scaup duck | Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill. | Birds | Schooler | 3.6K |
| breed | Large hound used in hunting wild boars. | Mammals | Schooler | 3.6K |
| Freshwater catfish of eastern United States. | Fish | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| Black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea. | Birds | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| breed | A wild horse that is vicious and difficult or impossible to break in. | Mammals | Schooler | 3.6K |
| Any of several honeycreepers. | Birds | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| also Banded adder | Sluggish krait banded with black and yellow. | Reptiles | Schooler | 2.9K |
| also Banting, Tsine | Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.9K |
| also Barosaurus | A dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall. | Reptiles | Schooler | 2.9K |
| North American goldeneye diving duck. | Birds | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| also Robber fly | Swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing. | Insects | Schooler | 2.9K |
| Red-blooded clam. | Molluscs | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| also Leech, Hirudinean | Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end. | Worms | Schooler | 2.9K |
| also Guib | Antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.9K |
| also Lesser panda, Red panda, Panda | Reddish-brown Old World raccoon-like carnivore. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.4K |
| also Gooney, Gooney bird, Goonie | A variety of albatross with black feet. | Birds | Schooler | 2.4K |
| Gastropod having reddish toothlike projections around the shell opening. | Molluscs | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| also Nymphalid | Medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast. | Insects | Schooler | 2.4K |
| Any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines. | Fish | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| Similar to but smaller than porcupinefish. | Fish | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| also Bank martin, Sand martin | Swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks. | Birds | Schooler | 1.9K |
| also Mexican bean beetle | Introduced into the United States from Mexico. | Insects | Schooler | 1.9K |
| Any of several tropical American birds of the genus Procnias having a bell-like call. | Birds | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| Short-nosed rat kangaroo. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| also Biting louse | Wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting. | Insects | Schooler | 1.9K |
| North American cuckoo. | Birds | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| Common vireo of northeastern North America with bluish slaty-grey head. | Birds | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| Found along western Atlantic coast. | Fish | Schooler | 1.6K | |
| also Muntjac | Small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.6K |
| also Wax moth | Moth whose larvae live in and feed on bee honeycombs. | Insects | Schooler | 1.6K |
| Grouse of which the male is bluish-black. | Birds | Schooler | 1.6K | |
| Mockingbird of Mexico. | Birds | Schooler | 1.6K | |
| also Boatbill | Tropical American heron related to night herons. | Birds | Schooler | 1.6K |
| also Groundfish | Fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder). | Fish | Schooler | 1.6K |
| Small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail. | Insects | Schooler | 1.6K | |
| A stingray with a short tail and a broad fin. | Fish | Schooler | 1.6K | |
| Any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song. | Birds | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| Larvae live in and feed on growing or stored beans. | Insects | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| also Conenose, Cone-nosed bug, Conenose bug | Large bloodsucking bug. | Insects | Schooler | 1.3K |
| also Owl, Bird of Minerva | Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes. | Birds | Schooler | 1.3K |
| Northern Atlantic guillemot. | Birds | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| also Spitting cobra | Aggressive cobra widely distributed in Africa. | Reptiles | Schooler | 1.3K |
| also Blue pickerel, Blue pikeperch, Blue walleye | Variety inhabiting the Great Lakes. | Fish | Schooler | 1.3K |
| also Hemerobiid, Hemerobiid fly | Small dark-colored lacewing fly. | Insects | Schooler | 1.3K |
| also Rudderfish | Fish having the habit of following ships. | Fish | Schooler | 1K |
| also Sand hopper, Sandhopper, Sand flea | Small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas. | Crustaceans | Schooler | 1K |
| Food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida. | Fish | Schooler | 1K | |
| Delicately iridescent thimble-shaped ctenophores. | Other invertebrates | Schooler | 1K | |
| Old World stork that is glossy black above and white below. | Birds | Schooler | 1K | |
| Peafowl of India and Ceylon. | Birds | Schooler | 1K | |
| also Common zebra, Equus Burchelli | Of the plains of central and eastern Africa. | Mammals | Schooler | 1K |
| also American widgeon | A widgeon the male of which has a white crown. | Birds | Rare | 880 |
| Of tundra of northern Canada. | Mammals | Rare | 880 | |
| Stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings. | Birds | Rare | 880 | |
| Important marine food fishes. | Fish | Rare | 880 | |
| also Bonnet monkey, Capped macaque, Crown monkey | Indian macaque with a bonnet-like tuft of hair. | Mammals | Rare | 880 |
| also Bottlenose whale, Bottlenose | Northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead. | Mammals | Rare | 880 |
| Typical crabs. | Crustaceans | Rare | 880 | |
| Eurasian finch. | Birds | Rare | 880 | |
| Burrowing scaly-tailed rat of India and Ceylon. | Mammals | Rare | 720 | |
| Small secretive ground-living snake. | Reptiles | Rare | 720 | |
| Songbird of northern Europe and Asia. | Birds | Rare | 720 | |
| Bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns. | Reptiles | Rare | 720 | |
| Small South American deer with unbranched antlers. | Mammals | Rare | 720 | |
| An East Indian civet. | Mammals | Rare | 590 | |
| European beetle. | Insects | Rare | 590 | |
| Dusky grey food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward. | Fish | Rare | 590 | |
| also Arenaria-Melanocephala | Common turnstone of the Pacific coast of North America. | Birds | Rare | 590 |
| Small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head. | Fish | Rare | 590 | |
| Marine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell. | Molluscs | Rare | 480 | |
| also Racehorsebreed | A horse bred for racing. | Mammals | Rare | 390 |
| also Pasang | Wild goat of Iran and adjacent regions. | Mammals | Rare | 390 |
| also Eared grebe | Small grebe with yellow ear tufts and a black neck. | Birds | Rare | 390 |
| also Slowworm | Small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes. | Reptiles | Rare | 390 |
| Small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills. | Birds | Rare | 390 | |
| Of northwestern Canada and Alaska. | Mammals | Rare | 390 | |
| Amphibious rat of Australia and New Guinea. | Mammals | Rare | 320 | |
| Important dark-colored edible food and game fish of Australia. | Fish | Rare | 320 | |
| also Policeman bird | Large mostly white Australian stork. | Birds | Rare | 320 |
| Fish with a projecting snout. | Fish | Rare | 320 | |
| also Hog-nosed skunk, Rooter skunk | Large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail. | Mammals | Rare | 260 |
| A sand snake of southwestern United States. | Reptiles | Rare | 260 | |
| also Big-eyed scad, Goggle-eye | Of Atlantic coastal waters. | Fish | Rare | 260 |
| also Branchiopod crustacean, Branchiopodan | Aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding. | Crustaceans | Rare | 260 |
| Serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings. | Molluscs | Rare | 260 | |
| Pest on citrus trees. | Insects | Rare | 260 | |
| One of the largest skates (to 5 feet). | Fish | Rare | 210 | |
| also Snoek | A large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa. | Fish | Rare | 210 |
| Found in warm shallow waters of western Atlantic. | Fish | Rare | 210 | |
| also Cunner | Common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States. | Fish | Rare | 170 |
| Eurasian subspecies of tundra swan. | Birds | Rare | 170 | |
| also Caracul, Karakulbreed | Hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia. | Mammals | Rare | 170 |
| also Pogonophoran | Slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering. | Worms | Rare | 140 |
| also Fenusa pusilla | Small black sawfly native to Europe but established in eastern United States. | Insects | Rare | 140 |
| breed | Red-and-white variety of English toy spaniel. | Mammals | Rare | 140 |
| Important food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor. | Fish | Rare | 110 | |
| also Brush-tail porcupine | Porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail. | Mammals | Rare | 110 |
| Web-footed Australian stilt with reddish-brown pectoral markings. | Birds | Deep Cut | 90 | |
| also Snipefish | Small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth. | Fish | Deep Cut | 90 |
| A blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies. | Fish | Deep Cut | 70 | |
| Small marine fish with black mouth and gill cavity. | Fish | Deep Cut | 70 | |
| breed | A variety of Brussels griffon having a short smooth coat. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 70 |
| An African shrike. | Birds | Deep Cut | 70 | |
| Fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand. | Fish | Deep Cut | 50 | |
| A small black and red and white carpet beetle. | Insects | Deep Cut | 50 | |
| Any hawk of the genus Buteo. | Birds | Deep Cut | 40 | |
| also Baranduki, Barunduki, Burunduki | Terrestrial Siberian squirrel. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 30 |
| A variety of adelgid. | Insects | Deep Cut | 20 | |
| A widely distributed North American garden spider. | Spiders & arachnids | Deep Cut | 20 | |
| Tail is black tipped. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 20 | |
| North American butterfly with blue-black wings crossed by a broad white band. | Insects | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| also Four-wing flying fish | Having both pectoral and pelvic fins enlarged. | Fish | Deep Cut | 10 |
| A kind of bush shrike. | Birds | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| Found from Florida to Cuba. | Fish | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| Bushy-tailed phalanger. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| A fish that lurks on the bottom of a body of water. | Fish | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| Trumpeter of Brazil and Guiana. | Birds | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| also Hair-tailed mole | Mole of eastern North America. | Mammals | One in a Krillion | <10 |
| A bitch used for breeding. | Mammals | One in a Krillion | <10 |
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Questions about animals that start with B
How many animals start with B?
RareList lists 362 animals that start with B, including 39 breeds. 56 are in the Plankton tier, the names everyone knows, and 68 are in the Rare tier or rarer.
What are common animals that start with B?
The most searched animals starting with B are Bear, Bruin, Baltimore oriole, Bedbug and Boa.
What is a rare animal that starts with B?
Banded purple is one of the rarest. North American butterfly with blue-black wings crossed by a broad white band. It gets about 10 US searches a month. Other rare picks: Baldpate, Barren ground caribou and Black-winged stilt.
How does RareList decide what counts as rare?
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