Wildlife
Bird · Birds of Prey
The national bird is a huge forest raptor with a shaggy crest, found only on Luzon, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao. It hunts monkeys, colugos and other prey in the canopy, and Mindanao holds most of the remaining birds.
Meet the Philippine eagle
Mammal · Tarsiers
A nocturnal primate small enough to sit in a hand, with enormous eyes and long fingers. It lives on Bohol, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao.
Meet the tarsier
Mammal · Wild Cattle
A small, stocky wild buffalo found only on the island of Mindoro, where conservation staff and rangers protect the last herds.
Meet the tamaraw
Bird · Parrots
A white cockatoo with a red patch under the tail, once widespread across the islands and now concentrated on Palawan and nearby islands.
Meet the cockatoo
Mammal · Whales, Dolphins & Dugong
A gentle marine mammal that grazes on seagrass meadows in warm shallow water, recorded around the Palawan islands and other Philippine coasts.
Meet the dugong
Reptile · Crocodiles
A small freshwater crocodile found only in the Philippines. Community-based conservation programmes in Luzon's Northern Sierra Madre and in Mindanao protect wild and released animals.
Meet the Philippine crocodile
Mammal · Fruit Bats & Flying Foxes
One of the largest bats in the world, with a wingspan well over a metre, roosting in forest trees and feeding on figs and other fruit.
Meet the flying foxA free field guide to 1,304 animals in the Philippines: photos and identification notes for 246 mammals, 681 birds, 110 amphibians, 162 lizards, 96 snakes and 9 turtles and crocodiles, plus 25 of the best places to see wildlife in the Philippines, a trip planner and a personal sightings log. Free, with no sign-up.
1,300+ mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians
Wildlife of the Philippines is a free online field guide to the wildlife of the Philippines: 1,304 species (246 mammals, 681 birds, 110 amphibians, 162 lizards, 96 snakes and 9 turtles and crocodiles) with photos and identification notes, 25 places to see wildlife, a trip planner and a personal sightings log. It is part of Wildlife of Everywhere, a family of free guides to wildlife destinations around the world.
Highlights include Puerto Princesa Underground River (Palawan), El Nido & Bacuit Bay (Palawan), Calauit & the Calamian Islands (Palawan), Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (Sulu Sea) and Balabac Islands (Palawan). The guide covers 25 places in all, each with the species it is known for and tips for visiting.
The guide's best places for the Philippine Eagle are Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park, Samar Island Natural Park, Mount Apo Natural Park and Mount Kitanglad Range Natural Park. The largest protected area in the Philippines, a long wall of forest along Luzon's eastern coast.
The guide's best places for the Philippine Tarsier are Bohol & the Philippine Tarsier, Leyte: Kuapnit Balinsasayao, Samar Island Natural Park and Mount Hamiguitan Range. Bohol is the best-known place to see the Philippine tarsier, a tiny nocturnal primate with enormous eyes.
The guide's best places for the Tamaraw are Mounts Iglit-Baco National Park. The core habitat of the tamaraw, a small wild buffalo found only on Mindoro and one of the rarest large mammals.
Yes. The guide is free with no sign-up, and works in any phone, tablet or computer browser. Your trip plan and sightings log are saved on your own device.
Species list built from the Mammal Diversity Database, AviList and the Clements/eBird bird checklist, Catalogue of Life reptile and amphibian lists and GBIF records. Photos are openly licensed; tap the i on any photo for its credit. Conservation status shown is the Philippine national list only (DENR DAO 2019-09, the Updated National List of Threatened Philippine Fauna); species not on that list show unknown. No IUCN status data is reproduced.
Yes. Use the contribution form to send photos, an album link, a trip report or a species that is missing. Every contribution is checked before it is added, you keep your copyright, and you are credited by name.
Many of the Philippines' species still have no photo in this guide. If you have a good, openly licensed photo of one, we would love to use it, with credit.
