South and Central America wildlife checklists
Free checklists for 4 destinations in South and Central America: Galápagos, Pantanal, Corcovado and Tambopata. Together they cover 272 animals to look for, each with tips on where to find them. Print any of them for free, or tick them off in Wilder as you go.
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.
Photo credits
- 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
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All photo credits. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, resized.
How the checklists work
Pick where you're going
Each list covers the animals you have a real chance of seeing, plus a few you'll be lucky to find.
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With dates, photos, a trip summary and a passport stamp. Works with no signal.
The Wilder app
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