All wildlife spectacles

406 spectacles in 38 countries. By month: January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December. By animal and by kind.

Norway (16)

• Autumn migration at Lista, Jomfruland and Utsira · September to October
• Capercaillie and black grouse leks in the eastern forests · April to May
• Great snipe lek at Fokstumyra · May to June
• Hornøya and Gjesværstappan: Arctic seabird cliffs · May to July
• Lemming years and the owl irruption · June to August
• Midnight-sun taiga chorus in Pasvik · June
• Moose rut in the eastern forests · September to October
• Musk ox on Dovrefjell · August to September
• Orcas and humpbacks on the winter herring, Skjervøy · November to January
• Puffin arrival day on Lovund and the Røst colonies · April, June to July
• Runde bird cliffs: puffins at Lundeura · May to July
• Sperm whales of the Bleik canyon, Andenes · June to August
• Svalbard: Arctic summer cliffs, walrus and terns · June to July
• Varanger in winter: Steller's and king eiders · February to March
• White-tailed eagles: Smøla, Lofoten and the Trollfjord · March to May
• Wild reindeer rut on the high plateaus · September to October

Sweden (5)

• Falsterbo: Scandinavia's autumn migration funnel · September to October
• Ottenby: autumn at the southern tip of Öland · April to May, September to October
• Spring crane staging: Hornborgasjön and Pulken · March to April
• Stora Karlsö: Baltic auk cliffs and the guillemot jump · May to July
• Tåkern: booming bitterns in Europe's biggest reedbeds · April to May, September to October

Denmark (16)

• 'Sort sol' — starling murmurations over the Wadden Sea marshes · March to April, September to October
• Bat hibernacula in the Mønsted and Daugbjerg limestone mines · August to September
• Cranes dancing on the dune heaths and bogs · March to April
• Ertholmene: Denmark's only guillemot and razorbill colony · May to June
• Fallow deer rut at the Eremitage · October to November
• Fire-bellied toads and green toads on the islands · May to June
• Gedser Odde: autumn migration off Denmark's southern tip · September to October
• Harbour porpoises in the Little Belt · June to August
• Nightjars and woodlarks in the dune plantations · June to July
• Red deer rut: Dyrehaven, Thy, Lille Vildmose, Oksbøl · September to October
• Seals at Hvide Sande and on the Wadden Sea sandbanks · November to January, June to August
• Skagen: Europe's biggest spring raptor passage · May
• Thrush nightingale nights in eastern Denmark · May to June
• Tipperne: wader passage on Ringkøbing Fjord · April to September
• Vejlerne: bitterns, cranes and Northern Europe's largest reedbeds · April to June
• Wadden Sea autumn: geese, waders and whooper swans in the marsh · October to December

United Kingdom (29)

• Autumn visible & nocturnal migration · October
• Bat emergence & autumn swarming · July to September
• Bitterns booming · March to May
• Black grouse leks · April
• Bottlenose dolphins from the shore · June to August
• Common cranes bugling · December to March
• Common frog & toad spawning · February to March
• Corncrakes calling · May to June
• Fallow deer rut · October
• Grey seal pupping · September to December
• Late-summer bush-cricket & grasshopper chorus · August
• Manx shearwaters returning at night · May to July
• Natterjack toad chorus · April to May
• Nightingales singing · April to May
• Nightjars churring · June to July
• Pink-footed goose dawn flights · October to January
• Red deer rut · September to October
• Rook & jackdaw winter roost · December to January
• Seabird cities · May to July
• Snettisham wader spectacular · September to October
• Starling murmurations · November to January
• Storm petrels at Mousa Broch · June to July
• Swift screaming parties · June to July
• Tawny owl territorial calling · January to February, October to November
• Tyne kittiwakes — the urban colony · May to July
• Upland wader breeding song · April to June
• Whooper swans & barnacle geese · November to February
• Woodcock roding · April to May
• Woodland dawn chorus peak · April to May

Ireland (7)

• Corncrakes calling on Tory, Inishbofin and the Mullet · May to June
• Fin and humpback whales from the south-coast headlands · November to January
• Greenland white-fronted geese on the Wexford Slobs · November to March
• Irish seabird cities: Cliffs of Moher, Great Saltee and the Skelligs · May to June
• Light-bellied brent geese arriving in Dublin Bay · October to March
• Natterjack toad chorus on the Kerry dunes · April to May
• Red deer rut in Killarney National Park · October

Netherlands (7)

• Biesbosch beavers at dusk · May to August
• Breskens: spring migration over the Westerschelde dike · April to May
• Lauwersmeer in winter: barnacle geese, wigeon and sea eagles · November to January
• Meadow-bird chorus: godwits, redshanks and lapwings over the Frisian polders · April to May
• Red deer rut: Oostvaardersplassen and the Veluwe · September to October
• Tree frog choruses of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen · May
• Wadden Sea high-tide wader roosts: Westhoek and the Frisian coast · May, July to September

Belgium (4)

• Le brame: red deer rut in the Ardennes forests · September to October
• Nightjars churring on the Kalmthoutse Heide · June to July
• Oostkustpolders: pink-footed and white-fronted geese of the Flemish coast · November to January
• The Zwin: wader passage, ringing season and the stork colony · March to September

Germany (18)

• Arctic geese on the Lower Rhine · December to February
• Autumn bat swarming at the Segeberg Kalkberg cave · August to September
• Bavarian Forest: pygmy and Tengmalm's owls, woodpeckers, lynx country · March to April, September to October
• Berlin: the nightingale capital · April to May
• Capercaillie and black grouse — the ones you do not visit · April
• Crane autumn staging: Rügen-Bock, Linum, Diepholz, Müritz · October
• Elbe beavers at dusk, Mittelelbe · May to July
• Fire-bellied toads, natterjacks and blue moor frogs · March to May
• Great bustard display, Havelland and Belzig · March to April
• Helgoland Lummenfelsen: guillemots, gannets and the 'Lummensprung' · May to June
• Helgoland migration falls and grey seal winter · October to January
• Lake Constance winter: 100,000+ waterbirds in the Untersee · November to January
• Lower Oder Valley: whooper swans, geese and the flooded polders · January to February
• Marmots, ibex and chamois in the Berchtesgaden Alps · June to August, November
• Müritz: cranes, ospreys and sea eagles in summer · April to June, September to October
• Red deer rut: Darß beaches, Schorfheide, Harz, Eifel · September to October
• Stork villages: Rühstädt and Bergenhusen · April to July
• Wadden Sea autumn: millions of waders and geese · September to October

France (30)

• Autumn falls & nocmig on Ouessant and Sein · October
• Baie de Somme: harbour seals & wader roosts · June to September
• Baie de l'Aiguillon: wader roosts and winter geese · October to February
• Banc d'Arguin terns & Arcachon brent geese · October to January, May to July
• Black grouse leks in the Alps · April to May
• Brame du cerf in the mountains · September to October
• Brame du cerf — the great lowland forests · September to October
• Brenne, land of a thousand ponds · May to June
• Cap Gris-Nez: seabird passage through the Dover Strait · September to October
• Cicadas of Provence · July to August
• Cranes at Lac du Der · February to March, October to November
• Fin whales & sperm whales off the Côte d'Azur · June to September
• Flamingo colonies of the Camargue · March to June
• Garrigue dawn chorus · April to May
• Ibex, chamois & isard rut · November to December
• Iroise: grey seals of Molène and Sein dolphins · September to December
• La Crau steppe: little bustard, sandgrouse & stone-curlew · April to May
• Lac de Grand-Lieu: the great heronry and the spoonbill colony · April to June
• Marsh dawn chorus: Brière and Dombes · April to June
• Marsh frog & tree frog choruses · April to June
• Mercantour summer: marmots, ibex and wolf country · June to August
• Midwife toad piping in the villages · April to June
• Nightjars and woodlarks of the Landes pine forest · June to July
• Provençal nights: nightingale, scops owl & stone-curlew · April to June
• Pyrenean passes: raptor, stork, pigeon & crane migration · August to November
• Sept-Îles: gannets on Rouzic, puffins and auks · May to July
• Shearwater colonies: Îles d'Hyères and Lavezzi · April to July
• Spring migration counts: Col de l'Escrinet, Pointe de Grave and Le Hucel · February to May
• Vulture cliffs of the Jonte, Verdon and Ossau · March to July
• Wintering cranes at Arjuzanx · November to February

Switzerland (10)

• Alpine ibex, chamois and marmots · May to June, November to December
• Autumn migration over the Alpine passes: Col de Bretolet · September to October
• Bearded vultures and golden eagles of the Engadin · June to September
• Black grouse leks in the Alps and Jura · April to May
• Bolle di Magadino: spring fall-outs and nightingales · April to May
• Cicadas of Ticino and the Valais rock steppes · July to August
• Frog and toad choruses of the Mittelland marshes · April to May
• Gull, tern and heron colonies of the Grande Cariçaie · May to June
• Red deer rut in Val Trupchun, Swiss National Park · September to October
• Wintering waterbirds on the lakes: Fanel, Klingnau, Untersee, Léman · December to January

Austria (13)

• Beavers by boat at dusk, Donau-Auen · May to July
• Black grouse leks above the treeline · April to May
• Corncrakes and curlews of the Styrian Ennstal · May to June
• Frog nights in the Danube floodplain forest · April to May
• Goose autumn at the Lange Lacke, Seewinkel · October to December
• Great bustard display on the Parndorfer Platte and Hanság · March to May
• Marmots, ibex and vultures, Hohe Tauern · June to August, December
• Red deer rut in the Kalkalpen and Gesäuse · September to October
• Reedbed dawn on Europe's largest steppe lake · April to June
• Rhine delta on Lake Constance: migration and winter rafts · November to January, April to May, August to September
• Thayatal: river gorge dawn, eagle owl and wildcat country · April to May
• Tree-nesting white stork colony, March floodplain · April to July
• Ural owls in the Wienerwald and Dürrenstein wilderness · February to March, September to October

Slovenia (14)

• Amphibian chorus of the intermittent lake · April to June
• Bat emergence from karst caves · June to August
• Black grouse leks above the treeline · April to May
• Brown bears from forest hides, Kočevsko · May to July
• Corncrakes and wet-meadow night chorus, Ljubljana Marsh · May to June
• Edible dormouse nights and the 'polharjenje' season · August to October
• Karst nights: scops owl, nightjar and cicadas · May to July
• Lake Cerknica reedbed chorus: bittern, crakes, great reed warbler · April to June
• Marmots, ibex and chamois in the Julian Alps · June to August, November to December
• Mura floodplain dawn: orioles, bee-eaters, heronries · May to June
• Red deer rut in the Dinaric forests · September to October
• Waders and terns on the Sečovlje salt pans · April to May, July to September
• Wintering waterfowl on the Drava reservoirs · December to February
• Wolf howling and Ural owls, Kočevski Rog nights · February to March, August to October

Croatia (15)

• Bottlenose dolphins of the Kvarnerić, Lošinj · June to September
• Brown bears and wolves, Gorski kotar and Velebit · May to October
• Cicada summer of the Adriatic coast · July to August
• Frog choruses of the Sava and Danube floodplains · March to May
• Golden jackal choruses of Dalmatia · December to February, July to August
• Griffon vultures on the sea cliffs of Cres · May to August
• Heronries, cormorant colonies and spring flood chorus, Kopački rit · April to June
• Neretva delta: the Adriatic flyway stopover · April to May, August to October
• Paklenica canyons: eagle owl, chamois and rock birds · February to March
• Plitvice and Lika beech-fir forests: owls, woodpeckers, dawn chorus · April to May
• Red deer rut in the Danube floodplain, Kopački rit · September
• Scops owl nights on the Dalmatian islands · May to June
• Shearwater colonies at night, Lastovo archipelago · May to July
• Vrana Lake: wintering ducks and the reedbed spring · December to February, April to June
• White stork village and floodplain summer, Lonjsko polje · May to July

Italy (29)

• Alpine black grouse leks · April to May
• Alpine summer: marmots & ibex · June to July
• Apennine beech-forest dawn chorus · May to June
• Autumn migration over Alpine passes · October
• Bee-eater & roller colonies · June to July
• Chamois & ibex rut · November to December
• Cicada summer chorus · July to August
• Eagle owl winter calling · December to February
• Eleonora's falcon colonies · August to October
• Fin whales & sperm whales, Pelagos Sanctuary · July to August
• Firefly nights · May to June
• Flamingo colonies & courtship · February to April
• Golden jackal choruses on the Karst · January to March, July to August
• Griffon vultures of the Bosa coast, Sardinia · February to June
• Heron colonies ('garzaie') · May to June
• Lesser kestrel colonies in the Sassi of Matera · May to June
• Lowland deer ruts: Mesola red deer & fallow at San Rossore · September to October
• Mediterranean nights: nightingale & scops owl · April to May
• Raptor migration: Strait of Messina · April to May, August to September
• Red deer rut ('bramito') · September to October
• Reedbed dawn chorus: great reed warbler, bittern, purple heron · April to June
• Sardinian red deer rut · September
• Scopoli's & Yelkouan shearwater colonies · May to July
• Spring passage on small islands · April to May
• Starling murmurations in Rome · December to January
• Swift screaming parties over old towns · June to July
• Tree frog & water frog chorus · April to June
• Winter wetlands: geese, ducks & cranes · December to February
• Wolf howling · January to February, August to September

Spain (28)

• Balearic shearwater & storm petrel islands · March to June
• Cantabrian mountains: chamois rut, bears and wallcreepers · April to June, August to November
• Cicadas of the Spanish pinewoods · July to August
• Cory's shearwater colonies of the Canaries · May to November
• Cranes at Laguna de Gallocanta · February to March, November
• Dawn chorus of the Mediterranean scrub and dehesa · April to May
• Doñana in winter: geese and the marismas · December to January
• Ebro Delta: Audouin's gulls, terns and flamingos · May to July
• Fuente de Piedra: the great flamingo colony · April to July
• Great bustard & little bustard display · March to April
• Griffon cliffs: Hoces del Duratón, Hoces del Riaza and Monfragüe · February to June
• Houbara bustard display on the Canary steppes · January to February
• Iberian ibex rut, Sierra de Gredos · November to December
• Iberian lynx mating calls, Sierra de Andújar · December to January
• Iberian wolf howling, Sierra de la Culebra · January to February, August to September
• Islas Cíes & Ons seabird colonies · May to June
• La berrea in the Cantabrian mountains · September
• La berrea — Monfragüe, Cabañeros & Sierra Morena · September to October
• Lesser kestrel colonies of Trujillo · April to June
• Orcas hunting bluefin tuna in the Strait · July to August
• Pilot whales of Teno–Rasca, Tenerife · all year
• Red-necked nightjar nights · May to July
• Seabird passage at Estaca de Bares · September to October
• Spring frog & toad choruses of the Andalusian marshes · March to May
• Steppe dawn: Dupont's lark and the Belchite larks · March to May
• Strait of Gibraltar: raptor & stork passage · March to April, August to September
• Wintering cranes in the Extremadura dehesa · November to February
• Wintering greylags at Villafáfila · November to January

Portugal (8)

• Berlengas: Cory's shearwaters calling over the island at night · June to August
• Brama do veado: red deer rut in the Serra da Lousã · September to October
• Castro Verde steppe: great bustard display and the calandra lark dawn · March to April
• Douro Internacional: griffon and Egyptian vultures on the canyon walls · March to July
• Sagres: the south-west corner — raptor passage and seabirds off Cape St Vincent · September to October
• Tagus estuary in winter: flamingos, avocets and 100,000 waterbirds · November to February
• The Sado's resident bottlenose dolphins · May to October
• Zino's petrel calling over Pico do Arieiro at night · May to July

Gibraltar (1)

• The Rock: soaring birds crossing the Strait over Gibraltar · March to May, August to September

Morocco (14)

• Autumn seabird passage off Cap Rhir, north of Agadir · March to April, September to October
• Barbary macaque troops in the Middle Atlas cedar forest · November to March
• Eleonora's falcons hunting migrants off Essaouira · August to October
• Marchica lagoon, the Moulouya mouth and the Mohammed V reservoir — the Mediterranean east in winter · December to February
• Northern bald ibis colonies, Souss-Massa & Tamri · March to June
• Oued Souss estuary — Audouin's gulls, flamingos and waders at Agadir's door · September to April
• Saharan lagoons — Khnifiss and Dakhla Bay in winter · November to February
• Sidi Moussa–Oualidia lagoons — 10,000 waders, flamingos and the salt-pan roosts · November to February
• Spring amphibian chorus of the Middle Atlas lakes and Mamora · March to April
• Spring passage and desert night birds around Merzouga · March to April
• Spring raptor & stork passage over the Strait — Jbel Moussa · March to April
• White storks bill-clattering on the Chellah walls, Rabat · February to April
• White-headed ducks and marbled teal wintering on Lac Sidi Boughaba · December to February
• Wintering waders and ducks on Merja Zerga · November to February

Cabo Verde (4)

• Gongon — Cape Verde petrels calling at night over the Fogo caldera and the Santo Antão plateaux · January to March
• Humpback whales breeding in Sal Rei bay, Boa Vista · March to April
• Loggerhead turtles nesting on Boa Vista, Sal and Maio · July to September
• Raso and Branco — Cape Verde shearwater islets and the Raso lark · June to September

Mauritania (8)

• Aftout es Saheli — West Africa's only lesser flamingo breeding colony · March to May
• Autumn seabird passage off Ras Nouadhibou · September to October
• Baie du Lévrier — 37,000 gulls, terns and waders in Nouadhibou's bay · December to February
• Diawling floodplain — pelicans, flamingos and Palearctic ducks · November to February
• Imraguen mullet fishing with dolphins, Banc d'Arguin · November to December
• Mediterranean monk seal colony, Cap Blanc · September to November
• Seabird and spoonbill colonies on the Banc d'Arguin islands · April to June
• Two million waders wintering on the Banc d'Arguin · November to April

Senegal (12)

• Atlantic humpback dolphins of the Saloum delta — the species' last stronghold · October to March
• Autumn seabird passage off Ngor, Dakar · September to October
• Dindéfélo — savanna chimpanzees pant-hooting under the Fouta Djallon escarpment · December to March
• Great white pelican colony at Djoudj · December to March
• Kousmar — the world's largest lesser kestrel and scissor-tailed kite roost · December to February
• Niokolo-Koba — hippos, lions and the Gambia river in the dry season · February to April
• Palearctic ducks and waders wintering at Djoudj · November to February
• Red-billed tropicbird colony, Îles de la Madeleine · October to March
• Saloum Delta — tern roosts, mangrove herons and wintering waders · November to February
• Somone lagoon — pelicans, flamingos and the sandbank roost on the Petite Côte · November to February
• Technopole — Dakar's urban wetland roost · November to March
• Tern and gull colonies of the Langue de Barbarie · April to May

The Gambia (9)

• Abuko gallery forest — dawn chorus and monkeys · June to August
• First-rains frog chorus of the Gambian rice fields and forest pools · June to August
• Hippos and the chimpanzee islands of the River Gambia National Park · January to April
• Hooded vultures of the Kombo coast — Africa's densest population at the fish beaches and abattoirs · November to February
• Kartong — wetland pools, Allahein river mouth and turtle beach · October to March
• Nightjars and owls of the coastal woodland — Brufut and Kotu · January to March
• Tanbi wetlands and the Bund Road lagoons — Banjul's wader, gull and egret roosts · December to February
• Tanji beach and the Bijol Islands — terns, gulls and the fish-landing roost · November to March
• Tendaba — Bao Bolong mangrove creeks and Kiang West savanna · November to February

Guinea-Bissau (6)

• Bijagós intertidal flats — the flyway's second great wader wintering ground · November to February
• Cacheu mangroves — West Africa's largest continuous mangrove block · November to February
• Chimpanzee dawn chorus in the Cantanhez forests · January to April
• Cufada lagoons — wintering ducks and the heron roost · December to February
• Green turtle nesting on Poilão — Africa's largest rookery · August to October
• Saltwater hippos of Orango · December to April

Guinea (7)

• First-rains frog chorus of the Guinean savanna and forest · May to July
• Fouta Djallon — savanna chimpanzees and the Bafing highlands · December to March
• Haut Niger National Park — the Mafou savanna and the upper Niger · January to April
• Mount Nimba — chimpanzees of Bossou and the Nimba highlands · December to March
• Tristão islands and the Rio Nunez estuary — waders, terns and mangrove · November to February
• Ziama massif — forest elephants and the Guinean rainforest dawn · December to March
• Île Alcatraz — the only brown booby colony between Cabo Verde and São Tomé · December to March

Sierra Leone (8)

• Gola Rainforest — picathartes, hornbills and the forest chorus · December to March
• Loma Mountains: chimpanzees, rockfowl and the climb to Bintumani · January to March
• Outamba-Kilimi — hippos, chimps and the northern savanna at night · January to April
• Sherbro and the Turtle Islands — terns, waders and turtle beaches · November to February
• Sierra Leone River estuary and Yawri Bay — wintering waders on Freetown's doorstep · November to February
• Straw-coloured fruit bats over Freetown · November to February
• Tiwai Island — eleven primates and the Moa river dawn · December to March
• Western Area Peninsula forest — the dawn chorus above Freetown · November to April

Liberia (7)

• East Nimba Nature Reserve — the Liberian side of Mount Nimba · December to March
• First-rains frog chorus of the Liberian forest zone · May to June
• Gola Forest National Park (Liberia) — hornbills, picathartes and pygmy hippo country · December to March
• Lake Piso — wintering waders, terns and the mangrove lagoon · November to February
• Marshall and Mesurado wetlands — Monrovia's mangrove roosts · November to February
• Sapo National Park — pygmy hippo, elephants and the deepest forest in West Africa · December to March
• Sea turtle nesting on Liberia's beaches · November to February

Côte d'Ivoire (8)

• Azagny: manatees, Palearctic waders and the lagoon canal · November to February
• Banco forest dawn chorus inside Abidjan · December to March
• Comoé: elephants, hippos and the savanna-forest mosaic · January to March
• Habituated chimpanzees and the Taï forest dawn · December to February
• Rainy-season frog chorus at Taï · May to June, October to November
• Sea turtles nesting at Grand-Béréby · November to January
• The Plateau fruit bats of Abidjan — a city-centre roost flying out to the Banco forest · November to March
• Îles Ehotilé: fruit bats, waterbirds and mangrove lagoon · November to March

Ghana (12)

• Amansuri wetland by canoe: Ghana's largest swamp forest and the Nzulezo stilt village · June to July
• Baboons, bat caves and savanna dawn at Shai Hills · December to March
• Bobiri forest: four hundred butterfly species on a May morning · May
• Elephants at the Mole waterholes · January to March
• First-rains frog chorus in the Upper Guinea forest · May to June, September to October
• Fruit bat colony on the cliffs of Wli Falls · November to March
• Humpback whales off Cape Three Points · August to October
• Sacred-grove monkeys at Tafi Atome and Boabeng-Fiema · February to October
• Straw-coloured fruit bat roost at 37 Military Hospital, Accra · December to February
• Tern roosts and Palearctic waders on the Keta and Songor lagoons · September to October
• Upper Guinea rainforest dawn chorus — Kakum & Ankasa · November to March
• Wechiau: hippos on the Black Volta at dusk · December to March

Togo (5)

• Fazao-Malfakassa: elephants, colobus and ground hornbills in the hills · January to March
• Forest dawn and butterflies around Kpalimé · November to March
• Hippos on the Mono river · January to March
• Palearctic waders and terns on Lake Togo and the Aného lagoons · October to February
• Sea turtles on the Togo coast · November to January

Benin (7)

• Bouche du Roy: mangroves, manatees and the Mono estuary · November to February
• Humpback whales off Ouidah and Grand-Popo · August to October
• Lama forest and Lokoli swamp: red-bellied monkeys and the last forest chorus of the Dahomey Gap · November to March
• Pendjari: lions, elephants and hippos at the dry-season pools · January to April
• Sea turtles nesting at Grand-Popo and Ouidah · November to January
• W National Park (Benin sector): the Mékrou river and Koudou falls · February to April
• Waterbirds of Lake Nokoué and Ganvié · November to February

Nigeria (10)

• Amurum Forest and the Jos Plateau: rock-fig dawn and wet-season song · June to September
• Gashaka Gumti: chimpanzees and the Kwano forest · December to March
• Hadejia-Nguru wetlands: Sahelian floodplain waterfowl · December to February
• Kainji Lake: hippos and savanna nights on the Oli river · February to April
• Lekki Conservation Centre: mona monkeys and swamp-forest birds in Lagos · November to March
• Obudu Plateau and Becheve: montane forest song of the Cameroon highlands · December to February
• Okomu: the white-throated monkey's forest and a 43-metre tree house at dawn · December to February
• Omo Forest: forest elephants and a lowland-forest dawn · December to February
• The Afi Mountain barn swallow roost · December to February
• Yankari: elephants on the Gaji river and Wikki nights · February to April

Cameroon (10)

• Bénoué: hippos on the river at Buffle Noir and the Guinea-savanna dry season · February to April
• Douala-Edéa and Lake Ossa: manatees, mangroves and the Sanaga mouth · December to February
• Humpback whales off Kribi · August to October
• Kilum-Ijim: Bannerman's turaco and the Mount Oku forest · December to February
• Korup: drills, red colobus and the oldest rainforest dawn in Africa · January to March
• Lobéké bais: elephants, gorillas and grey parrots at the clearings · December to February
• Mount Cameroon: francolin and speirops on the volcano's slopes · November to February
• Mount Kupe and the Bakossi mountains: montane forest song · December to February
• Sea turtles at Ebodjé and the Campo Ma'an coast · November to January
• Waza: elephants, giraffes and the Sahelian floodplain · February to May

Equatorial Guinea (2)

• Bioko's southern beaches: leatherbacks, green turtles and the Caldera primates · December to February
• Monte Alén: the Río Muni rainforest dawn, elephants and the goliath frog rivers · December to February, June to August

São Tomé and Príncipe (5)

• Humpback mothers and calves off São Tomé and Príncipe · August to September
• Obô forest dawn: São Tomé's endemic birds above Bom Sucesso · December to February, June to September
• Príncipe after dark: the scops owl described in 2022, and the island's endemics at dawn · December to February, June to September
• The Tinhosas: the only great seabird colony of the eastern tropical Atlantic · December to January, June to August
• Turtle nights on São Tomé — Praia Jalé, Praia Inhame and Morro Peixe · November to February

Gabon (6)

• Akanda and the Mondah bay flats: Gabon's wader wintering ground on Libreville's doorstep · November to March
• Humpback whales off Loango — the Gulf of Guinea breeding ground · July to September
• Langoué Bai: elephants, gorillas and red river hogs at the Ivindo clearing · July to September
• Leatherback nesting from Pongara to Mayumba — Gabon's turtle coast · December to January
• Loango: forest elephants, buffalo and hippos on the ocean beach · August to March
• Lopé: the mandrill super-groups of the dry season · July to October

Republic of the Congo (6)

• Brazzaville: the Congo river and the Djoué at dawn · July to September
• Conkouati-Douli: humpback whales and leatherback nesting · August to January
• Lésio-Louna: rewilded gorillas and the Batéké plateau · June to September
• Ngaga: habituated western lowland gorillas in the marantaceae forest · June to September
• Nouabalé-Ndoki: gorillas and elephants at Mbeli Bai · December to February
• Odzala-Kokoua: forest elephants and grey parrots at Lango bai · December to February, July to September

DR Congo (1)

• Mangroves of the Congo mouth: manatees, turtle beaches and the only marine park in the DRC · November to January

Angola (9)

• Flamingos and Palearctic waders on the Mussulo lagoon · October to February
• Humpback whales off Namibe and Benguela · July to October
• Iona and the Namib coast: desert dawn, flamingos and the Cunene mouth · August to November
• Kissama (Quiçama): elephants and the Cuanza river · July to September
• Kumbira forest: the Gabela endemics at dawn · June to September
• Miombo woodland at the first rains: cuckoos, barbets and frogs · October to November
• Mount Moco: Swierstra's francolin and the Afromontane forest · June to September
• Okavango headwaters: the Cuito source lakes and the Cuando · June to September
• Olive ridley nesting on the Angolan coast — the Atlantic's largest population · November to January