Free wildlife checklists for 42 destinations
The animals to look for in 42 of the world's great wildlife places, with tips on where to find them. Print one for free, or tick them off in Wilder as you go.
Africa 9
Africa checklists
Safari101 animals
Kruger National ParkLimpopo and Mpumalanga · South Africa
Africa's classic safari: the Big Five, wild dogs on the move, and some of the best birdwatching on the continent.
Safari68 animals
Serengeti National ParkMara, Simiyu and Arusha · Tanzania
Endless plains and the great wildebeest migration, with lions on the kopjes and cheetahs hunting in the open grass.
Safari72 animals
Masai Mara National ReserveNarok County · Kenya
Kenya's most famous reserve: big cat country, and the Mara River crossings when the migration arrives from July to October.
Safari53 animals
Ngorongoro CraterArusha Region · Tanzania
A vast volcanic caldera packed with game: the best place in Tanzania for black rhino, with flamingos on the soda lake.
Safari69 animals
Etosha National ParkKunene, Oshana and Oshikoto · Namibia
A great white salt pan ringed by waterholes, where elephants, black rhino and lions come to drink in the dry season.
Safari87 animals
Okavango Delta and MoremiNorth-West District · Botswana
A vast inland delta of lagoons, papyrus and palm islands, explored by mokoro and on foot: wild dogs, lechwe and big cats.
Safari73 animals
Chobe National ParkChobe District · Botswana
Home to some of the largest elephant herds in Africa, best seen drinking and swimming from a boat on the Chobe River.
Safari68 animals
South Luangwa National ParkEastern and Muchinga provinces · Zambia
The home of the walking safari, famous for leopards on night drives and a river crowded with hippos.
National park32 animals
Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkKanungu, Kisoro and Rubanda · Uganda
Steep, misty rainforest that is home to around half the world's mountain gorillas, and to birds found nowhere outside the Albertine Rift.
North America 17
North America checklists
National park95 animals
YellowstoneWyoming, Montana, Idaho · USA
America's first national park: bison herds, wolves in the Lamar Valley, grizzlies and geysers.
National park72 animals
Banff National ParkCanadian Rockies · Alberta, Canada
Canada's first national park: elk by the town, bighorn sheep on the Minnewanka road, bears in the Bow Valley and pikas in the rocks.
National park73 animals
Jasper National ParkCanadian Rockies · Alberta, Canada
The biggest park in the Canadian Rockies: elk in town, mountain goats above the Icefields Parkway and the quiet Maligne Valley.
Region98 animals
AlaskaThe whole state · USA
Bears at the salmon falls, moose in the willows, whales in the fjords and puffins on the cliffs.
National park79 animals
Grand TetonWyoming · USA
Jagged peaks over Jackson Hole: moose in the willows, bison on the flats and sage-grouse dancing at dawn.
National park64 animals
Glacier National ParkMontana · USA
The Crown of the Continent: mountain goats at Logan Pass, grizzlies on the slopes above Many Glacier and harlequin ducks on McDonald Creek.
National park63 animals
Olympic National ParkWashington · USA
Three parks in one: Roosevelt elk in the Hoh rainforest, marmots found nowhere else on Hurricane Ridge, and tide pools, sea otters and grey whales on the wild coast.
National park62 animals
Everglades National ParkFlorida · USA
A slow river of grass: alligators beside the Anhinga Trail, spoonbills and wood storks in the shallows, and the only place where alligators and crocodiles live side by side.
National park55 animals
Great Smoky MountainsTennessee and North Carolina · USA
Misty old mountains with black bears in Cades Cove, elk in Cataloochee, synchronous fireflies in June and more kinds of salamander than anywhere else on Earth.
National park55 animals
Rocky Mountain National ParkColorado · USA
High meadows and tundra above Estes Park: bugling elk in autumn, bighorns at Sheep Lakes, moose on the west side and pikas among the rocks on Trail Ridge Road.
National park61 animals
Pacific Rim National Park ReserveVancouver Island, British Columbia · Canada
Surf beaches and old-growth rainforest between Tofino and Ucluelet: grey whales feeding close to shore, sea otters in Clayoquot Sound and black bears turning over rocks at low tide.
Provincial park70 animals
Algonquin Provincial ParkOntario · Canada
Lakes, bogs and maple forest in the Canadian Shield: moose along Highway 60, loons calling at dusk, Canada jays in the spruce bogs and, if you're lucky, wolves howling on an August night.- Region58 animals ChurchillHudson Bay, Manitoba · Canada The polar bear capital of the world: bears waiting for the sea ice in October and November, thousands of belugas in the river mouth in July and August, and tundra birds all summer.
Marine park45 animals
Tadoussac and the SaguenaySaguenay–St. Lawrence Marine Park, Quebec · Canada
Where the Saguenay fjord meets the St. Lawrence: white belugas all year, and minke, fin, humpback and blue whales feeding from June to October, often seen from the shore.
Island75 animals
Vancouver IslandBritish Columbia · Canada
Orcas and humpbacks in Johnstone Strait, grey whales and sea otters off Tofino, black bears on the beaches at low tide, and the Vancouver Island marmot found nowhere else on Earth.
Region104 animals
British ColumbiaThe whole province · Canada
From the Great Bear Rainforest to the Rockies: grizzlies at the salmon rivers, spirit bears on Princess Royal Island, orcas in the Salish Sea and mountain goats on the cliffs.
Region75 animals
YukonThe whole territory · Canada
Big, wild and empty: grizzlies and Dall sheep in Kluane, caribou on the Dempster Highway, moose in every wetland and the northern lights over it all.
UK and Europe 7
UK and Europe checklists
National park86 animals
Cairngorms National ParkHighland, Moray and Aberdeenshire · Scotland
Britain's biggest national park: Caledonian pinewoods with crested tits and red squirrels, and a high plateau of ptarmigan, dotterel and mountain hares.
Island71 animals
Isle of MullArgyll and Bute · Scotland
Eagle island: white-tailed and golden eagles, otters along the sea lochs, and puffins on the Treshnish Isles a boat ride away.
Island41 animals
Skomer IslandPembrokeshire · Wales
A small island off the Pembrokeshire coast with tens of thousands of puffins by day and the world's biggest Manx shearwater colony by night.
National park80 animals
New Forest National ParkHampshire · England
Ancient woods and open heaths where five kinds of deer roam, Dartford warblers sing from the gorse and all six British reptiles live.
Region68 animals
North Norfolk Coast and the BroadsNorfolk · England
Seal colonies, salt marshes full of waders and wintering geese, and reedbeds where bitterns boom, cranes breed and swallowtails fly.
National park64 animals
Doñana National ParkAndalucía · Spain
The great marshes of the Guadalquivir: flamingos, spoonbills and imperial eagles, and the best place in the world to hope for an Iberian lynx.
Region39 animals
SvalbardSvalbard · Norway
High Arctic islands halfway to the North Pole: polar bears on the sea ice, walrus on the beaches and seabird cliffs under the midnight sun.
South and Central America 4
South and Central America checklists
Island55 animals
Galápagos IslandsGalápagos Province · Ecuador
Volcanic islands where the animals barely notice you: giant tortoises, marine iguanas, dancing boobies and sea lions on every beach.
Region80 animals
PantanalMato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul · Brazil
The world's largest tropical wetland and the best place on Earth to see a wild jaguar, with giant otters, caimans by the thousand and hyacinth macaws.
National park66 animals
Corcovado and the Osa PeninsulaOsa Peninsula, Puntarenas · Costa Rica
Costa Rica's wildest rainforest, running down to empty beaches: tapirs at Sirena, four kinds of monkey and scarlet macaws overhead.
Reserve71 animals
TambopataMadre de Dios · Peru
Lowland Amazon rainforest where hundreds of macaws and parrots gather at the clay licks, and giant otters fish the oxbow lakes.
Asia 3
Asia checklists- Reserve51 animals Kinabatangan RiverSabah, Borneo · Malaysia Borneo's great wildlife river: proboscis monkeys at dusk, wild orangutans, pygmy elephants on the banks and eight kinds of hornbill.
National park60 animals
Ranthambore National ParkSawai Madhopur, Rajasthan · India
Dry forest, lakes and a thousand-year-old fort, and one of the best places in India to see a wild tiger by day.
Region56 animals
HokkaidoHokkaido · Japan
Japan's wild north: dancing red-crowned cranes in the snow, Steller's sea eagles on the drift ice and brown bears fishing in Shiretoko.
Oceania 2
Oceania checklists
Island58 animals
TasmaniaThe whole state · Australia
Wild island at the bottom of Australia: devils, wombats and platypus, with twelve birds found nowhere else.
Marine park46 animals
Great Barrier ReefQueensland · Australia
The world's biggest coral reef: turtles, reef sharks and manta rays underwater, and seabird islands on top.
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Photo credits
- Bison grazing in Lamar Valley (51484623103) by YellowstoneNPS, Public domain
- Moraine Lake-Banff NP by Tobias Alt, Tobi 87, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Spirit Island, Maligne Lake, Jasper NP by Christian Abend from Laufen /, Bayern / Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Elephants Kruger Park banner by Jacky W https://www.flickr.com/photos/mediatejack/, CC BY 2.0
- Caribou and Denali (11330240034) by Denali National Park and Preserve, Public domain
- Moose in Grand Teton National Park 2 (7994780433) by Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0
- Mountain Goat at Hidden Lake by Robert M. Russell, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Hoh Rain Forest Olympic June 2018 008 by King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Anhinga Trail, Everglades National Park, Florida (51130273576) by Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Female Black Bear in Cades Cove by ZachN 0421, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Moraine Park Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park by Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Long Beach banner beach panorama by original work: Adam Jones, Ph.D. derivative work: Shaundd, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Lookout Trail - Algonquin Park - IMG 9729 by Sikander Iqbal, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Beluga Whale Tadoussac Quebec Canada Luca Galuzzi 2005 by Luca Galuzzi ( Lucag ), CC BY-SA 2.5
- Orca johnstone strait by Winky from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY 2.0
- Ursus americanus kermodei, Spirit Bear Lodge, Klemtu, BC 1 by Maximilian Helm from Dresden, Deutschland, CC BY 2.0
- Kathleen Lake, Kluane National Park, Yukon, Canada by Wikibunt, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Serengeti wildebeest migration JF2 by Wolves201, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Three zebras in Masai Mara National Park, Kenya by Volodymyr Burdiak, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Ngorongoro crater landscape by Pavel.shyshkouski, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 174 Male Springbok in Etosha National Park Photo by Giles Laurent by Giles Laurent, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Elefante africano de sabana (Loxodonta africana), delta del Okavango, Botsuana, 2018-07-31, DD 02 by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Elefantes africanos de sabana (Loxodonta africana), parque nacional de Chobe, Botsuana, 2018-07-28, DD 25 by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Sunset Luangwa River Wide Zambia Jul23 A7C 05776 by This Photo was taken by Timothy A. Gonsalves . Feel free to use my photos,..., CC BY-SA 4.0
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 10 by Thomas Fuhrmann, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Loch Morlich and Cairngorm Mountains by dave conner, CC BY 2.0
- Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland (16533469707) by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0
- Puffin - Island of Skomer, Wales by Andy Morffew, CC BY-SA 4.0
- New Forest ponies by Paste, Public domain
- Common Blue Damselfly - Enallagma cyathigerum 12.06.2024 by Buggingitout, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Doñana flamingos juni 1999 49 by Smiley.toerist, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Burgerbukta Glacier, Svalbard, Arctic (19659831664) by Gary Bembridge from London, UK, CC BY 2.0
- Lobo marino (Zalophus californianus wollebaeki), Punta Pitt, isla de San Cristóbal, islas Galápagos, Ecuador, 2015-07-24, DD 11 by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fim de tarde serra do amolar-9454 by Antenor Concha, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Corcovado National Park, Costa RIca 02 by Bernard Gagnon, CC0
- On the Rio Tambopata…Lago Condenado (old oxbow) (8444746925) by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Fort of Ranthambore as visible from Ranthambore National Park by RahulDogra264, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Grus japonensis -Hokkaido, Japan -several-8 by Alastair Rae from London, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Boat shed and Cradle Mountain at Dove Lake, Tas by Thennicke, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Coral Outcrop Flynn Reef by Toby Hudson, CC BY-SA 3.0
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All photo credits. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, resized.
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