Wildseer

A wild Asian elephant bull standing in dry season grassland in Thailand

A pocket field guide to the world’s wildlife

Most travel writing tells you a place has abundant wildlife and leaves it there. Wildseer tells you which animals, where in the country, what month, and how likely you actually are to see one. Every entry is a real record checked against a database rather than a memory, and where a species is probably already gone, we say so.

It is written for the traveller who books the dawn boat rather than the lie-in. Not an expert, but not satisfied with monkeys and elephants either.

Start here: Thailand

Thailand is the first country covered in full. 498 species across every group, from the Indochinese tiger down to the leeches, with 1,053 records tying them to twelve specific places.

Browse Thailand by group

Or read the full guide to wildlife in Thailand

Going somewhere specific?

Park and island guides list what is genuinely present at that one place, not what is present in the country.

Places

Going in a particular month?

Seasons matter more than most guides admit. On the Andaman coast the diving season and the monsoon are opposites. In the forest, the dry months concentrate mammals at water while the green months belong to frogs and insects. These pages are built from the same records, filtered to what is actually around.

How this is put together

Every species sits in a structured record: where to look, which months, and an honest likelihood running from Common down to Ultra rare. Ultra rare means a once-in-a-lifetime record, not a famous animal. Nothing is invented to fill a page, and if a group looks thin it is because the evidence is thin.

The guide also records loss. The largetooth sawfish and the masked finfoot are both listed for Thailand and both are very likely gone. A field guide that quietly drops them tells you the sea is richer than it is.

Every photograph is licensed for reuse and credited, with the full list at image credits.

What is coming

Thailand first, then region by region. Global species pages, printable checklists, and reverse lookups for the question people actually ask, which is not what lives in Thailand but where in the world can I see a manta ray.

Image credits, licences, and how each image was cropped

Square thumbnails are cropped from the original. Wide banner images are cropped to a band. Other images are resized only. No other changes have been made.