UK and Europe wildlife checklists
Free checklists for 7 destinations in UK and Europe: Cairngorms, Mull, Skomer, New Forest, Norfolk, Doñana and Svalbard. Together they cover 449 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.
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.
Photo credits
- 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
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All photo credits. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, resized.
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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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