Wildlifeof Singapore
Resources & credits
Sources · Conservation status · Photography
About this guide
A growing field guide to Singapore’s vertebrates: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. The current edition contains 1,387 checklist records and 1,109 species with photographs.
Reading the checklist
National status comes from the Singapore Red Data Book assessment tables published by NParks. It is separate from global IUCN status. Historical, nationally extinct and introduced records are retained where the source lists them.
The checklist is a source snapshot, not a complete current inventory. Taxonomy, resident or migrant status and recent records still need review. Missing images are marked “No photo yet”. Detailed identification notes are still being added.
Official species sources
- NParks · terrestrial mammals
- NParks · marine mammals
- NParks · birds
- NParks · reptiles
- NParks · amphibians
- NParks · freshwater fishes
- NParks · marine fishes
- AviList: The Global Avian Checklist © 2026 by the AviList Core Team, licensed under CC BY 4.0: used to check current bird names and to note where it treats a species as a subspecies of another
mammalwatching.com
Mammal Watching (mammalwatching.com) is a community website for people who watch wild mammals, founded in 2005 by Jon Hall. It brings together trip reports, a directory of sites and guides, a forum, a global mammal checklist, a library of mammal sound recordings and gear advice. Its trip reports are a useful companion when planning where to look for a particular species.
The site includes many examples of how responsible mammal-watching tourism brings income to places with few other sources, giving local people a reason to protect wildlife. These include Brazil's Pantanal, where ranchers now earn more from jaguar tourism than from cattle, and visits that have helped fund research on mandrills in Gabon and spectacled bears in Ecuador. Sightings recorded by mammalwatchers have also documented range extensions, new country records and rediscoveries of "lost" species.
Trip reports
Field trip reports by Jon Hall of mammalwatching.com, with his photographs, reproduced in full. Photos by other people are credited to them and to mammalwatching.com.
Planning a visit
Each place links to official visitor information. Check current access and trail conditions before travelling. Wildlife sightings are never guaranteed.
Your plans and sightings
Plans and sightings are saved in this browser on this device. Download a PDF to keep a copy. Email buttons prepare a draft in your mail app; you choose when to send it.
Species descriptions
Species accounts are our own paraphrased summaries of published, openly accessible sources, mainly Wikipedia species accounts, and for snakes and other reptiles also The Reptile Database (reptile-database.reptarium.cz), with national checklists and Red Lists where cited. Each account names its source in brackets. Some are general to the species and are not specific to this country; a short entry means the sources said little, not that we left something out. We use no IUCN Red List data.
Photo credits
Most photographs come from iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons, used under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA licences. Every one keeps its photographer’s name, a link to the original and its licence. Some photographs are our own, credited to Mike Gordon.
Photographs are chosen to show the species clearly, so some were taken elsewhere in the region rather than in Singapore. Tap the ⓘ button on any photograph to see who took it and under what licence. The full list is below.