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Wildlife sightings checklist

Choose your groups, then download or print a checklist to tick off the mammals, birds, reptiles and marine life you spot.

Choose groups

Tick the groups to include. Use hide on species you won't encounter and add your own, then download your customised checklist to tick off on safari.

Wildlife sightings checklist

Explore Africa · exploreafrica.com.au · species vary by country & park

Mammals

  • Lion
  • Leopard
  • African elephant
  • Rhino (white / black)
  • Cape buffalo
  • Cheetah
  • African wild dog
  • Spotted hyena
  • Giraffe
  • Plains zebra
  • Hippopotamus
  • Common warthog
  • Blue wildebeest
  • Impala
  • Greater kudu
  • Waterbuck
  • Nyala
  • Vervet monkey
  • Chacma baboon
  • Mountain gorilla
  • Chimpanzee
  • Banded mongoose
  • Honey badger

Birds

  • Lilac-breasted roller
  • African fish eagle
  • Secretary bird
  • Common ostrich
  • Kori bustard
  • Saddle-billed stork
  • Grey crowned crane
  • Marabou stork
  • Southern ground hornbill
  • Yellow-billed hornbill
  • Lappet-faced vulture
  • Bateleur
  • Carmine bee-eater
  • Superb starling
  • Greater flamingo
  • Hamerkop
  • Hadeda ibis
  • African jacana
  • Malachite kingfisher

Reptiles & amphibians

  • Nile crocodile
  • Nile monitor lizard
  • Rock python
  • Black mamba
  • Puff adder
  • Leopard tortoise
  • Flap-necked chameleon
  • Agama lizard
  • Foam-nest frog
  • Marsh terrapin

Ocean & marine

  • Humpback whale
  • Southern right whale
  • Bottlenose dolphin
  • Whale shark
  • Manta ray
  • Green / hawksbill turtle
  • Dugong
  • Reef sharks
  • Clownfish & reef fish
  • Octopus
  • Moray eel