Wildlife by animal and by kind
Pick an animal or a kind of spectacle to see when it peaks in each country, where to go and what you will hear.
By animal
- Bee-eaters (2)
- Black grouse leks (8)
- Brown bears (3)
- Capercaillie (2)
- Chamois (9)
- Chimpanzees (12)
- Cicadas (6)
- Cranes (13)
- Dolphins (6)
- Eagles (5)
- Elephants (17)
- Fallow deer rut (3)
- Flamingos (14)
- Gannets (5)
- Gorillas (6)
- Guillemots (7)
- Hippos (13)
- Humpback whales (10)
- Ibex (9)
- Lions (2)
- Manatees (4)
- Marmots (6)
- Nightingales (7)
- Nightjars (7)
- Orcas (2)
- Owls (15)
- Pelicans (3)
- Puffins (6)
- Red deer rut (18)
- Sea turtles (15)
- Seals (6)
- Shearwaters (10)
- Sperm whales (3)
- Spoonbills (2)
- Starling murmurations (3)
- Storks (8)
- Vultures (9)
- Wild geese (16)
- Wolves (5)
By kind of spectacle
- Ruts (25)
- Murmurations and roosts (9)
- Dawn choruses (62)
- Wildlife at night (54)
- Leks (15)
- Frog and toad choruses (20)
- Cicadas, crickets and fireflies (8)
- Winter geese, swans and ducks (49)
- Bird migration hotspots (43)
- Seabird colonies (26)
- Stork, heron and flamingo colonies (16)
- Birds of prey (10)
- Whales, dolphins and seals (29)
- Mountain wildlife (30)
- Bats (10)