Here is the list of common animal names starting with the letter ‘D’, compiled from the various resources.

Animals that Start with D
- D’Arnaud’s barbet
- D’Orbigny’s chat-tyrant
- Dab
- Dace
- Daddy longlegs
- Daggertooth pike conger
- Dagua thrush
- Dainty frog (disambiguation)
- Dalat bush warbler
- Dallasaurus
- Dalmatian pelican
- Damar flycatcher
- Damara red-billed hornbill
- Damara tern
- Dambo cisticola
- Damselfish
- Danio
- Dapple-throat
- Darjeeling woodpecker
- Dark batis
- Dark chanting goshawk
- Dark hawk-cuckoo
- Dark hunter
- Dark newtonia
- Dark pewee
- Dark-backed imperial pigeon
- Dark-backed sibia
- Dark-backed weaver
- Dark-backed wood quail
- Dark-bellied cinclodes
- Dark-billed cuckoo
- Dark-breasted rosefinch
- Dark-breasted spinetail
- Dark-eared myza
- Dark-eyed junco
- Dark-eyed white-eye
- Dark-faced ground tyrant
- Dark-finger coral crab
- Dark-fronted babbler
- Dark-necked tailorbird
- Dark-rumped rosefinch
- Dark-rumped swift
- Dark-sided flycatcher
- Dark-sided thrush
- Dark-throated oriole
- Dark-throated seedeater
- Dark-winged canastero
- Dark-winged miner
- Dark-winged trumpeter
- Darkling beetle
- Dartfish
- Dartford warbler
- Darter
- Darter (disambiguation)
- Darwin’s flycatcher
- Darwin’s nothura
- Darwin’s rhea
- Dasyproctidae
- Dasyuromorphia
- Dauan Island water python
- Daurian jackdaw
- Daurian partridge
- Daurian redstart
- Daurian starling
- David’s fulvetta
- Davison’s leaf warbler
- Dawazisaurus
- Dayak blue flycatcher
- De Schauensee’s anaconda
- Dead leaf mantis
- Dead Sea sparrow
- Death adder
- Death Valley pupfish
- Death’s head
- Deathwatch beetle
- Dealfish
- Deep Seven
- Deep-sea eel
- Deep-sea smelt
- Deepwater cardinalfish
- Deepwater flathead
- Deepwater stingray
- Deer
- Deer tick
- Degu
- DeKay’s brown snake
- Delicate prinia
- Delmarva fox squirrel
- Delta Amacuro softtail
- Delta smelt
- Demoiselle
- Demoiselle crane
- Denham’s bustard
- Denticle herring
- Dermaptera
- Dermochelyidae
- Dermoptera
- Des Murs’s wiretail
- Desert box turtle
- Desert cisticola
- Desert cockroach
- Desert death adder
- Desert finch
- Desert fox
- Desert grassland whiptail lizard
- Desert hairy scorpion
- Desert horned lizard
- Desert iguana
- Desert kingsnake
- Desert lark
- Desert locust
- Desert night lizard
- Desert nightsnake
- Desert orange tip
- Desert owl
- Desert pupfish
- Desert rat
- Desert rosy boa
- Desert short-horned lizard
- Desert sparrow
- Desert spiny lizard
- Desert tortoise
- Desert wheatear
- Desert woma python
- Desertas petrel
- Devario
- Devil ray
- Devil’s darning needle
- Dhole
- Dhufish
- Diademed amazon
- Diademed sandpiper-plover
- Diademed tanager
- Diademed tapaculo
- Diadophis punctatus edwardsii
- Diadophis punctatus regalis
- Diadophis punctatus stictogenys
- Diamantina sabrewing
- Diamantina tapaculo
- Diamond dove
- Diamond firetail
- Diamond python
- Diamond rattlesnake
- Diamondback rattlesnake
- Diamondback terrapin
- Diandongosaurus
- Dianmeisaurus
- Dianopachysaurus
- Diapsid
- Diard’s trogon
- Dickcissel
- Dickinson’s kestrel
- Dicondylia
- Diederik cuckoo
- Dieffenbach’s rail
- Didelphidae
- Didelphimorphia
- Digger wasp
- Digging frog
- Dimorphic dwarf kingfisher
- Dimorphic egret
- Dimorphic fantail
- Dinelli’s doradito
- Dingo
- Dinosaur
- Diprotodontia
- Diptera
- Discus
- Disteira
- Diuca finch
- Diving beetle
- Dja River scrub warbler
- Djibouti spurfowl
- Djokoiskandarus annulata
- Dodo
- Dog
- Dog-faced water snakes
- Dogface
- Dogface butterfly
- Dogfish
- Dogfish shark
- Dogteeth tetra
- Dog-toothed cat snake
- Doherty’s bushshrike
- Dohrn’s warbler
- Dojo loach
- Dolichorhynchops
- Dolichosaurus
- Dolly Varden trout
- Dolphin
- Dolphin fish
- Dolphin gull
- Donaldson Smith’s nightjar
- Donaldson Smith’s sparrow-weaver
- Donax variabilis
- Donkey
- Doodlebug
- Dorab wolf-herring
- Dorado
- Doria’s hawk
- Dorst’s cisticola
- Dory
- Dot-backed antbird
- Dot-eared coquette
- Dot-fronted woodpecker
- Dot-winged antwren
- Dot-winged crake
- Dotted tanager
- Dottyback
- Double-banded courser
- Double-banded greytail
- Double-banded plover
- Double-banded pygmy tyrant
- Double-banded sandgrouse
- Double-barred finch
- Double-collared seedeater
- Double-crested cormorant
- Double-eyed fig parrot
- Double-spurred spurfowl
- Double-striped thick-knee
- Double-toothed barbet
- Double-toothed kite
- Douglas squirrel
- Douglas’s ground squirrel
- Dove
- Down’s tiger snake
- Downy woodpecker
- Drab hemispingus
- Drab myzomela
- Drab seedeater
- Drab swiftlet
- Drab water tyrant
- Drab whistler
- Drab-breasted bamboo tyrant
- Dragon goby
- Dragonet
- Dragonfish
- Dragonfly
- Dragonfly nymph
- Drakensberg prinia
- Drakensberg rockjumper
- Drakensberg siskin
- Driftfish
- Driftwood catfish
- Drongo fantail
- Drosophila subobscura
- Drum
- Drymarchon
- Drymarchon couperi
- Drymarchon melanurus erebennus
- Dryomyza anilis
- Dubois’ frog
- Dubois’s sea snake
- Dubois’s seedeater
- Duchess lorikeet
- Duck
- Duckbill
- Duckbill eel
- Duckling
- Duetting giant honeyeater
- Dugand’s antwren
- Dugong
- Duida grass finch
- Duida woodcreeper
- Dulit frogmouth
- Dulit partridge
- Dull-blue flycatcher
- Dull-coloured grassquit
- Dull-mantled antbird
- Dumeril’s boa
- Dune lark
- Dung beetle
- Dunlin
- Dunn’s lark
- Dunnart
- Dunnock
- Dupont’s lark
- Durango rock rattlesnake
- Dusky antbird
- Dusky babbler
- Dusky batfish
- Dusky broadbill
- Dusky chlorospingus
- Dusky crag martin
- Dusky crested flycatcher
- Dusky crimsonwing
- Dusky eagle-owl
- Dusky frog
- Dusky fulvetta
- Dusky gerygone
- Dusky grasswren
- Dusky grouse
- Dusky grouper
- Dusky hummingbird
- Dusky indigobird
- Dusky lark
- Dusky leaftosser
- Dusky long-tailed cuckoo
- Dusky lory
- Dusky megapode
- Dusky moorhen
- Dusky munia
- Dusky myzomela
- Dusky nightjar
- Dusky parrot
- Dusky pigeon
- Dusky piha
- Dusky pigmy rattlesnake
- Dusky purpletuft
- Dusky robin
- Dusky shark
- Dusky shrew
- Dusky spinetail
- Dusky starfrontlet
- Dusky sunbird
- Dusky tapaculo
- Dusky tetraka
- Dusky thrush
- Dusky tit
- Dusky turtle dove
- Dusky twinspot
- Dusky warbler
- Dusky white-eye
- Dusky woodswallow
- Dusky-backed jacamar
- Dusky-billed parrotlet
- Dusky-blue flycatcher
- Dusky-brown oriole
- Dusky-capped flycatcher
- Dusky-capped greenlet
- Dusky-capped woodcreeper
- Dusky-cheeked fig parrot
- Dusky-chested flycatcher
- Dusky-faced tanager
- Dusky-green oropendola
- Dusky-headed brushfinch
- Dusky-headed parakeet
- Dusky-legged guan
- Dusky-tailed antbird
- Dusky-tailed canastero
- Dusky-tailed flatbill
- Dusky-throated antshrike
- Dusky-throated hermit
- Dwarf bittern
- Dwarf boa
- Dwarf cassowary
- Dwarf cloud rat
- Dwarf coati
- Dwarf corydoras
- Dwarf crab
- Dwarf cuckoo
- Dwarf frog
- Dwarf fruit dove
- Dwarf gourami
- Dwarf hamster
- Dwarf honeyguide
- Dwarf jay
- Dwarf koel
- Dwarf loach
- Dwarf pipe snakes
- Dwarf sand adder
- Dwarf sea snake
- Dwarf sparrowhawk
- Dwarf tinamou
- Dwarf toad
- Dwarf tyrant-manakin
- Dwarf vireo
- Dybowski’s twinspot
