There’s a short list of my favorite animals that start with o. But that’s just the beginning! We’ve compiled the biggest list ever of more than 700 animals beginning with O!
Our list uses only common names because scientific names are probably not what you’re looking for (and very difficult to pronounce). I’ve only included wild animals (no pet breeds or domesticated animals). This list focuses on vertebrate animals (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, & fish) but also includes a bunch of invertebrate animals at the end, like the Octopus!
One interesting thing to point out about animals that start with o: if it weren’t for the colors ochre, olive, and orange, we would lose 66% of the birds on our list!
What are some animals that start with O?
- Orca (Killer whale)
- Ocelot (small spotted cat)
- Octopus (most intelligent invertebrate)
- Orangutan (great ape)
- Okapi (closest relative to the giraffe)
- Owl (nocturnal bird of prey)
- Opossum (marsupial in North America – remember that possum is an animal that lives in Australia. See the difference between possum vs opossum)
- Ostrich (biggest bird in the world – and the one who lays the biggest eggs in the world!)
- Olm (cave salamander)
- Olingo (tropical member of raccoon family)
- Osprey (fish-eating bird of prey)
- Otter (aquatic mammal)
- Oarfish (longest bony fish, deep sea)
- Onager (Asiatic wild ass)
- Oriole (colorful songbird)
- Oribi (small antelope)
- Oxpecker (hitchhiking bird in Africa)
- Oyster (bivalve mollusk)
- Omao (endemic Hawaiian songbird)
- Oystercatcher (wading bird that eats shellfish)
- Oryx (desert-adapted antelope)
- Oilbird (nocturnal fruit-eating bird)
- Oropendola (large tropical perching bird)
- Ovenbird (North American warbler)
How Many Animals That Start With O are on our list?
67 Mammals
222 Birds
31 Reptiles
29 Amphibians
301 Fish
71 Invertebrates
= 721 Animals That Start With the Letter O!
If you want more information about any of these animals starting with o, you can highlight a name in the list and then right click it in your browser. Choose “Search with Google” and check the results. Some of my favorite information sources are the IUCN Redlist, Arkive, Fishbase, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Encyclopedia of Life, & One Zoom.
Related: Animals That Start With N: an Illustrated Guide
I spent over a week making all these cool illustrations of animals that start with n so please check it out!
ANIMALS THAT START WITH O
Mammals: 67 Animals That Start With O
- Ocelot
- Okapi
- Olingo
- Onager
- Opossum
- Orangutan
- Orca
- Oribi
- Oryx
- Otter
- Ox
- O’Connell’s spiny rat
- Oaxaca giant deer mouse
- Oaxacan pocket gopher
- Obi island cuscus
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat
- Occidental gerbil
- Ochre bush squirrel
- Ochre mole rat
- Ogilby’s duiker
- Ogilvie mountain collared lemming
- Ohiya rat
- Oku mouse shrew
- Olalla’s titi
- Oldfield mouse
- Oldfield mouse
- Oldfield white-bellied rat
- Olga’s dormouse
- Olive baboon
- Olive colobus
- Olive grass mouse
- Olive montane mouse
- Olive-backed pocket mouse
- Olivier’s shrew
- Olrog’s chaco mouse
- Olympic marmot
- Omilteme cottontail
- One-striped short-tailed opossum
- One-toothed shrew mouse
- Ontong Java flying fox
- Ooldea dunnart
- Opossum rat
- Orange fruit bat
- Orange leaf-nosed bat
- Orange mouse
- Orange nectar bat
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel
- Orange-spined hairy dwarf porcupine
- Ord’s kangaroo rat
- Oriental small-clawed otter
- Oriente cave rat
- Orinoco agouti
- Orinoco sword-nosed bat
- Ornate flying fox
- Ornate shrew
- Osgood’s horseshoe bat
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse
- Osgood’s mouse
- Osgood’s rat
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum
- Otter civet
- Oubangui mouse
- Owl’s spiny rat
- Owl-faced monkey
- Owston’s palm civet
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat
- Ozark big-eared-bat
Birds: 222 Animals Beginning With O
- Oilbird
- Omao
- Orangequit
- Oriole
- Osprey
- Ostrich
- Ovenbird
- Owl
- Oxpecker
- Oystercatcher
- Oahu Amakihi
- Oahu Oo
- Oasis Hummingbird
- Oaxaca Hummingbird
- Oaxaca Sparrow
- Obbia Lark
- Oberlaender’s Ground-Thrush
- Obi Woodcock
- Obscure Berrypecker
- Obscure Honeyeater
- Ocellated Antbird
- Ocellated Crake
- Ocellated Poorwill
- Ocellated Quail
- Ocellated Tapaculo
- Ocellated Thrasher
- Ocellated Turkey
- Ocellated Woodcreeper
- Ochraceous Attila
- Ochraceous Bulbul
- Ochraceous Pewee
- Ochraceous Piculet
- Ochraceous Wren
- Ochraceous-breasted Flycatcher
- Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
- Ochre-bellied Hawk-Owl
- Ochre-breasted Antpitta
- Ochre-breasted Brush Finch
- Ochre-breasted Pipit
- Ochre-breasted Spinetail
- Ochre-breasted Tanager
- Ochre-browed Thistletail
- Ochre-cheeked Spinetail
- Ochre-collared Piculet
- Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher
- Ochre-flanked Tapaculo
- Ochre-fronted Antpitta
- Ochre-marked parakeet
- Ochre-naped Ground Tyrant
- Ochre-rumped Antbird
- Ochre-striped Antpitta
- Ogea Flycatcher
- Okinawa Rail
- Old World Babbler
- Oleaginous Hemispingus
- Olivaceous Alseonax
- Olivaceous Elaenia
- Olivaceous Flatbill
- Olivaceous Greenlet
- Olivaceous Piculet
- Olivaceous Piha
- Olivaceous Siskin
- Olivaceous Thornbill
- Olivaceous Thrush
- Olivaceous Warbler
- Olivaceous Woodcreeper
- Olive Bulbul
- Olive Flycatcher
- Olive Flyrobin
- Olive Honeyeater
- Olive Ibis
- Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo
- Olive Manakin
- Olive Sparrow
- Olive Spinetail
- Olive Straightbill
- Olive Sunbird
- Olive Thrush
- Olive warbler
- Olive Whistler
- Olive-backed Euphonia
- Olive-backed Flowerpecker
- Olive-backed Foliage-gleaner
- Olive-backed Oriole
- Olive-backed Quail Dove
- Olive-backed Sunbird
- Olive-backed Tanager
- Olive-backed Woodcreeper
- Olive-backed Woodpecker
- Olive-bellied Sunbird
- Olive-brown Bulbul
- Olive-brown Oriole
- Olive-capped Flowerpecker
- Olive-capped Warbler
- Olive-chested Flycatcher
- Olive-crowned Crescentchest
- Olive-crowned Flowerpecker
- Olive-crowned Yellowthroat
- Olive-flanked Robin-Chat
- Olive-flanked Whistler
- Olive-green Camaroptera
- Olive-green Tanager
- Olive-green Tyrannulet
- Olive-headed Brush Finch
- Olive-headed Lorikeet
- Olive-headed Weaver
- Olive-rumped Serin
- Olive-sided flycatcher
- Olive-spotted Hummingbird
- Olive-streaked Honeyeater
- Olive-striped Flycatcher
- Olive-tree Warbler
- Olive-yellow Myzomela
- Olive-yellow Robin
- Olrog’s Cinclodes
- Olrog’s Gull
- One-coloured Becard
- Opal-crowned Manakin
- Opal-crowned Tanager
- Opal-rumped Tanager
- Openbill stork
- Orange Bishop
- Orange Bullfinch
- Orange Chat
- Orange Dove
- Orange Ground Thrush
- Orange Oriole
- Orange Weaver
- Orange-backed Troupial
- Orange-backed Woodpecker
- Orange-banded Flycatcher
- Orange-banded Thrush
- Orange-barred Willow Warbler
- Orange-bellied Antwren
- Orange-bellied Euphonia
- Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
- Orange-bellied Fruit Dove
- Orange-bellied Leafbird
- Orange-bellied manakin
- Orange-bellied parakeet
- Orange-bellied Trogon
- Orange-billed Babbler
- Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush
- Orange-billed Sparrow
- Orange-breasted Bunting
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike
- Orange-breasted Falcon
- Orange-breasted Fig Parrot
- Orange-breasted Fruiteater
- Orange-breasted Green Pigeon
- Orange-breasted Honeyeater
- Orange-breasted Rockjumper
- Orange-breasted Sunbird
- Orange-breasted Trogon
- Orange-browed Hemispingus
- Orange-cheeked Honeyeater
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill
- Orange-chinned Parakeet
- Orange-collared Manakin
- Orange-crested Flycatcher
- Orange-crested Manakin
- Orange-crowned Euphonia
- Orange-crowned Oriole
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Orange-eared Tanager
- Orange-eyed flycatcher
- Orange-flanked Bush-Robin
- Orange-footed Scrub Fowl
- Orange-fronted Barbet
- Orange-fronted Fruit Dove
- Orange-fronted Hanging-Parrot
- Orange-fronted Parakeet
- Orange-fronted Plushcrown
- Orange-fronted Yellow Finch
- Orange-gorgetted Flycatcher
- Orange-headed Tanager
- Orange-headed Thrush
- Orange-spotted Bulbul
- Orange-throated Sunangel
- Orange-throated Tanager
- Orange-tufted Sunbird
- Orange-winged Amazon
- Orange-winged Pytilia
- Orangeriver Francolin
- Orchard Oriole
- Oriental Bay-Owl
- Oriental Cuckoo
- Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher
- Oriental goldfinch
- Oriental Hobby
- Oriental Honey-buzzard
- Oriental Magpie-Robin
- Oriental Pied-Hornbill
- Oriental Pipit
- Oriental Plover
- Oriental Pratincole
- Oriental Scops Owl
- Oriental Turtle Dove
- Oriental white stork
- Oriental White-eye
- Oriental white-backed vulture
- Oriente Warbler
- Orinocan Saltator
- Orinoco Goose
- Orinoco Piculet
- Orinoco Softtail
- Oriole Blackbird
- Oriole Finch
- Oriole Warbler
- Ornate Flycatcher
- Ornate Fruit Dove
- Ornate Hawk-Eagle
- Ornate Lorikeet
- Ornate Melidectes
- Ornate Tinamou
- Oropendola
- Orphean Warbler
- Ortolan Bunting
- Oustalet’s Tyrannulet
- Oustalet’s White-bellied Sunbird
- Ouvea Parakeet
- Ovambo Sparrowhawk
Reptiles: 31 Animals Beginning With O
- O’shaughnessy’s Keeled Iguana
- Oaxacan Cat-Eyed Snake
- Oaxacan Coral Snake
- Oaxacan Dwarf Boa
- Oaxacan Graceful Brown Snake
- Oaxacan Leaf-toed Gecko
- Oaxacan Mud Turtle
- Oaxacan Patchnose Snake
- Oaxacan spiny-tailed iguana
- Ocellated Day Gecko
- Ogilby’s Knobtail Gecko
- Okavango mud turtle
- Okinawa Black-breasted Leaf Turtle
- Olive Ridley Turtle
- Oliver’s New Zealand Skink
- Olive Sea Snake
- Olmecan Pit Viper
- Ophisaurus ceroni
- Ophisops occidentalis
- Ophryacus melanurus
- Opisthotropis kikuzatoi
- Orinoco crocodile
- Ornamental Snake
- Ornate box turtle
- Ornate Dragon
- Ornate Ground Snake
- Ornate slider
- Ornate Spiny Lizard
- Orsini’s Viper
- Ota’s Wolf Snake
- Otago skink
Amphibians: 29 Animals that Start With the Letter O
- Olm
- Oak Toad
- Ocoee salamander
- Odaigahara salamander
- Oita salamander
- Oki salamander
- Oklahoma salamander
- Olive Snout-burrower
- Olongburra frog
- Olympic salamander
- Omei horned toad
- One-toed amphiuma
- Orange-bellied frog
- Orange-crowned Toadlet
- Orange-thighed Frog
- Oregon slender salamander
- Oregon Spotted Frog
- Oriental Bell Toad
- Oriental Fire-bellied Newt
- Orlov’s Treefrog
- Ornamented Pygmy Frog
- Ornate Burrowing Frog
- Ornate Chorus Frog
- Ornate Frog
- Ornate horned frog
- Oshan Metacarpal-tubercled Toad
- Ouachita dusky salamander
- Oxapampa Poison Frog
- Ozark Zigzag Salamander
Fish: 301 Animals That Start With O
- Oarfish
- Ol’wife
- Opah
- Opaleye
- Opalfish
- Otuno
- Oaxaca cichlid
- Oaxaca killifish
- Oaxaca livebearer
- Obbes’ catfish
- Oblique banded rattail
- Oblique butterflyfish
- Oblique-banded cardinalfish
- Oblique-banded rockcod
- Oblique-lined dottyback
- Oblique-swimming triplefin
- Obliquebanded stingfish
- Oblong slipmouth
- Obscure damsel
- Obscure flathead
- Obscure goby
- Obscure ruff
- Obscure triplefin
- Obtuse barracuda
- Obtuse sandfish
- Occidental blenny
- Ocean bass
- Ocean pout
- Ocean sunfish
- Ocean triggerfish
- Ocean whitefish
- Oceanic anchovy
- Oceanic lightfish
- Oceanic whitetip shark
- Ocellate duckbill
- Ocellate skate
- Ocellate soapfish
- Ocellate spot skate
- Ocellate triplefin
- Ocellated angel shark
- Ocellated blenny
- Ocellated cardinalfish
- Ocellated damsel
- Ocellated dragonet
- Ocellated electric ray
- Ocellated flounder
- Ocellated frogfish
- Ocellated icefish
- Ocellated killifish
- Ocellated labyrinth fish
- Ocellated pipefish
- Ocellated rivulus
- Ocellated sand-eel
- Ocellated scorpionfish
- Ocellated sole
- Ocellated spiny eel
- Ocellated tonguefish
- Ocellated turbot
- Ocellated wedge sole
- Ocellated wrasse
- Ochre-striped cardinalfish
- Ochrebanded goatfish
- Ocmulgee shiner
- Ocre-band wrasse
- Ocular blenny
- Oda’s skate
- Odd highhat
- Offshore lizardfish
- Offshore pipefish
- Offshore ponyfish
- Offshore rockfish
- Offshore silver hake
- Offshore tonguefish
- Ogasawara gurnard perch
- Ogasawara shrimp-goby
- Ogilby’s hardyhead
- Ogilby’s rainbowfish
- Ogilby’s spiny flathead
- Ogilbys wobbegong
- Ohio lamprey
- Ohrid trout
- Oily bitterling
- Okaloosa darter
- Okapi goby
- Okavango suckermouth
- Okavango tilapia
- Okefenokee pygmy sunfish
- Okhotsk hookear sculpin
- Okhotsk skate
- Okhotsk snailfish
- Okinawa chromis
- Okinawa flap-headed goby
- Okinawa goby
- Okinawa rubble goby
- Oktedi rainbowfish
- Old woman
- Oldman klipfish
- Olivaceous wormfish
- Olive damselfish
- Olive darter
- Olive flathead-gudgeon
- Olive grouper
- Olive grunt
- Olive Kivu haplo
- Olive rockfish
- Olive skiffia
- Olive wide-eyed flounder
- Olive-backed rockfish
- Olive-spotted monocle-bream
- Olivegreen ufipa barb
- Olmec blind catfish
- Olmec priapella
- Olympic mudminnow
- Oman anemonefish
- Oman blenny
- Oman bullhead shark
- Oman butterflyfish
- Oman cardinalfish
- Oman cownose ray
- Oman goby
- Oman gurnard
- Oman jawfish
- Oman moray
- Oman porgy
- Oman snake eel
- Omo lampeye
- Omox blenny
- One spot demoiselle
- One spot seabream
- One-and-a-half-stripe hap
- One-eyed blenny
- One-eyed sole
- One-finned shark
- One-spot moray
- One-stripe anthias
- One-stripe fusilier
- One-striped fangblenny
- Oneband anemonefish
- Onefin cat shark
- Onefin skate
- Onegilled eel
- Oneknife unicornfish
- Oneline pencilfish
- Onesided livebearer
- Onespot barb
- Onespot demoiselle
- Onespot fringehead
- Onespot goby
- Onespot squeaker
- Onespot triplefin
- Onespot wormfish
- Onestick stingfish
- Onestripe eel
- Onestripe wormfish
- Onestriped poison fang blenny
- Onrust klipfish
- Opal allotoca
- Opal pearlfish
- Opata sucker
- Opossum pipefish
- Orange brotula
- Orange clingfish
- Orange clinid
- Orange clownfish
- Orange dottyback
- Orange filefish
- Orange fin emperor
- Orange flagfish
- Orange goatfish
- Orange notothen
- Orange perch
- Orange pipefish
- Orange reef-goby
- Orange river mudfish
- Orange rockcod
- Orange roughy
- Orange scorpionfish
- Orange snake eel
- Orange tail Kivu haplo
- Orange wrasse
- Orange-back wrasse
- Orange-black dragonet
- Orange-dotted tuskfish
- Orange-fin file
- Orange-freckled flathead
- Orange-fringed largemouth
- Orange-lined reef basslet
- Orange-lined triggerfish
- Orange-red pigmy grouper
- Orange-socket surgeonfish
- Orange-speckled pygmy-goby
- Orange-spotted goby
- Orange-spotted sand perch
- Orange-spotted sand-goby
- Orange-spotted shrimp-goby
- Orange-spotted spinefoot
- Orange-spotted therapon
- Orange-spotted toadfish
- Orange-stripe emperor
- Orange-striped goby
- Orange-striped pygmy basslet
- Orange-striped wrasse
- Orangeback angelfish
- Orangeback bass
- Orangebanded gurnard perch
- Orangebanded stingfish
- Orangebar anthias
- Orangebelly darter
- Orangebelly goby
- Orangedotted blenny
- Orangeface angelfish
- Orangefin barb
- Orangefin darter
- Orangefin madtom
- Orangefin ponyfish
- Orangefin shiner
- Orangefin tetra
- Orangeflag blenny
- Orangehead anthias
- Orangehead worm-eel
- Orangelined cardinalfish
- Orangemouth lizardfish
- Orangemouth weakfish
- Orangeside goby
- Orangeside triggerfish
- Orangespine unicornfish
- Orangespotted blenny
- Orangespotted goby
- Orangespotted soapfish
- Orangespotted sunfish
- Orangespotted trevally
- Orangestriped squeaker
- Orangetail filefish
- Orangetail shiner
- Orangethroat darter
- Orangethroat pikeblenny
- Orbicular batfish
- Orbiculate cardinalfish
- Orbiculate spade fish
- Orchid dottyback
- Ordinary eel
- Ordway’s brotula
- Oregon chub
- Oriental butterflyfish
- Oriental flying gurnard
- Oriental maori wrasse
- Oriental sillago
- Oriental sweetlips
- Oriental weatherfish
- Oriental worm-eel
- Orinoco eartheater
- Orkney charr
- Ornamented flyingfish
- Ornamented wrasse
- Ornate angelfish
- Ornate bagrid
- Ornate bichir
- Ornate butterflyfish
- Ornate cowfish
- Ornate ctenopoma
- Ornate dogfish
- Ornate eagle ray
- Ornate emperor
- Ornate goby
- Ornate limia
- Ornate pipefish
- Ornate prawn-goby
- Ornate rainbowfish
- Ornate shiner
- Ornate sleeper-ray
- Ornate Snake Eel
- Ornate stargazer
- Ornate tetra
- Ostrich goby
- Otjikoto tilapia
- Ouachita madtom
- Ouachita mountain shiner
- Outer-reef damsel
- Ouwen’s goby
- Oval damselfish
- Oval electric ray
- Oval flounder
- Ovate chromis
- Ovate sole
- Ovoid toothpony
- Owens pupfish
- Owens sucker
- Oxeye oreo
- Oxeye scad
- Oxleyan pygmy perch
- Oyapock eartheater
- Oyster blenny
- Oyster pearlfish
- Oyster pompano
- Oyster toadfish
- Ozark bass
- Ozark cavefish
- Ozark chub
- Ozark logperch
- Ozark madtom
- Ozark minnow
- Ozark sculpin
- Ozark shiner
Invertebrates: 71 Invertebrate Animals & Insects That Start With O
- Oakslug
- Octopus
- Ostracod
- Owlfly
- Oyster
- Oak Bark Beetle
- Oak Beauty
- Oak Blotchminer
- Oak Figgall Wasp
- Oak Gall Borer
- Oak Lace Bug
- Oak Leaffolder
- Oak Leafmining Sawfly
- Oak Leafroller
- Oak Leafshredder
- Oak Leaftier
- Oak Lecanium
- Oak Olethreutid Leafroller
- Oak Plant Bug
- Oak Sapling Borer
- Oak Sawfly
- Oak Skeletonizer
- Oak Timberworm
- Oak Tiger Butterfly
- Oak Treehopper
- Oak Trumpet Skeletonizer
- Oak Webworm
- Oak-Maple Humped Caterpillar
- Oat Aphid
- Oat-Birdcherry Aphid
- Obliquebanded Leafroller
- Obscure Plant Bbug
- Obscure Root Weevil
- Ocellate Gall Midge
- Odd Beetle
- Odorous House Ant
- Old House Borer
- Oleander Aphid
- Oleander Scale
- Olive Fruit Fly
- Omnivorous Leafroller
- Omnivorous Leaftier
- Oncemarried Underwing
- Onelined Larch Sawfly
- Onespotted Stink Bug
- Onespotted Variant
- Onion Bulb Fly
- Onion Maggot
- Onion Thrip
- Opaque Sawyer
- Orange dog (caterpillar of Giant Swallowtail Butterfly)
- Orange Ichneumonid Wasp
- Orange Larch Tubemaker
- Orange Spruce Needleminer
- Orange Sulphur Butterfly
- Orange Tortrix
- Orangehumped Mapleworm
- Orangehumped Oakworm
- Orangestriped Oakworm
- Orb Weaver Spider
- Oregon Fir Sawyer
- Oregon silverspot butterfly
- Oriental Cockroach
- Oriental Fruit Moth
- Oriental Rat Flea
- Outhouse Fly
- Owlet moth
- Owl Butterfly
- Owl Moth
- Owl Midge
- Oystershell Scale
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Hal Brindley
Brindley is an American conservation biologist, wildlife photographer, filmmaker, writer, and illustrator living in Asheville, NC. He studied black-footed cats in Namibia for his master’s research, has traveled to all seven continents, and loves native plant gardening. See more of his work at Travel for Wildlife, Truly Wild, Our Wild Yard, & Naturalist Studio.