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Animal Checklist MCP Server

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Animal Checklist is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 4 Oct 2026.

Search animals in eight languages with habitats, countries, photos and source credits.

Uptime history 22 days of history
22 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
178 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 4 Oct 2026

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 4 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

4 Oct a tool changed version

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Animal Checklist every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add animal-checklist --transport http https://animalchecklist.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "animal-checklist": {
      "url": "https://animalchecklist.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.animal-checklist]
url = "https://animalchecklist.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "animal-checklist": {
      "url": "https://animalchecklist.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "animal-checklist": {
      "url": "https://animalchecklist.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

animal
get_animal
Read one species: every common name, scientific name, habitats, country observation counts, the full photo credit and the Wikipedia summary.
animals
search_animals
Search species by free text in any of eight languages or by scientific name, with optional category, habitat and ISO country filters. Ranked by iNaturalist observations. One page of card-sized records.
categories
list_categories
List the seven species groups with the label in the requested language and the species count. Call first to learn the valid `category` values.
countries
list_countries
List every ISO country code that carries observations with its species count.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://animalchecklist.com/mcp streamable-http answering 85 ms 9 min ago

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Animal Checklist — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Animal Checklist do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_animal, list_categories, list_countries, search_animals. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Animal Checklist working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 178 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Animal Checklist?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Animal Checklist need an API key?
No. Animal Checklist completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Animal Checklist?
It answers our handshake in 178 ms on average, which is faster than 67% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Animal Checklist open source?
We cannot say either way: 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.