Asian palm civet
Bawean hosts other rare mammals, such as crab-eating macaque ("Macaca fascicularis"), Sunda porcupine ("Hystrix javanica"), small Indian civet ("Viverricula indica"), Asian palm civet ("Paradoxurus hermaphroditus"). Most common birds are black-crowned night heron ("Nycticorax nycticorax"), purple heron ("Ardea purpurea"), great frigatebird ("Fregata minor") and gull-billed tern ("Gelochelidon nilotica"). Reptiles are represented by different kinds of lizards ("Varanus" sp .), reticulated python ("Python reticulatus") and saltwater crocodile ("Crocodylus porosus") which sometimes (rarely) swims to the island.