Where can you see the Short-tailed Shearwater?
Some of the best places to see the Short-tailed Shearwater in the wild include Fitzgerald River National Park (Australia), Glacier Bay National Park (United States) and Lincoln National Park (Australia) — among 20 wildlife hotspots across Australia, the United States, Thailand and Canada. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Bouddi National Park
Gosford, Australia
+147 birds+17 mammals
Sandstone ridges rise sharply from the Tasman Sea along the central New South Wales coast, their weathered faces etched by millennia of salt spray and storm…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBribie Island National Park
Brisbane, Australia
+284 birds+20 mammals
Across tidal flats and shallow waterways north of Brisbane, Bribie Island National Park spreads across nearly four hundred square kilometres of subtropical coastal wilderness—a patchwork of…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKCoffin Bay National Park
Australia
+143 birds+5 mammals
Across South Australia's Eyre Peninsula, where limestone headlands rise above turquoise shallows and eucalypt woodland gives way to coastal heath, lies a 1,319-square-kilometre sanctuary shaped by…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKFitzgerald River National Park
Fitzgerald River National Park, Australia
+209 birds+11 mammals
Where granite peaks rise above windswept heathlands and pristine river systems carve through untamed wilderness, one of Australia's most biodiverse landscapes unfolds across the southwestern corner…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKFlinders Chase National Park
Australia
+142 birds+14 mammals
Granite ridges and windswept mallee scrubland define this 1,630-square-kilometre expanse on Kangaroo Island, where ancient rock formations rise abruptly from coastal heathland and woodland mosaics. The…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKGheebulum Kunungai National Park
Moreton Island, Australia
+168 birds+7 mammals
Sand dunes rise and fall across Moreton Island's eastern shore, a landscape sculpted by wind and ocean currents into one of Australia's most dynamic coastal ecosystems.…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKGlacier Bay National Park
Unorganized Borough, United States
+221 birds+15 mammals
Tidewater glaciers calving into fjords of impossible blue, where temperate rainforest rises steeply from the water's edge and alpine peaks pierce the clouds—this is the ecological…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKGulf Islands National Park Reserve
Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area, Canada
+268 birds+26 mammals
Scattered across the Salish Sea in British Columbia's southwestern corner, this national park reserve stitches together a fragmented archipelago of forested islands and rocky outcrops where…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKHat Noppharat Thara-Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park
Ao Nang, Thailand
+253 birds+9 mammals
Where limestone karsts rise dramatically from turquoise waters, Hat Noppharat Thara-Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park unfolds across a mosaic of beach, mangrove forest, and island…
VIEW NATIONAL PARK