For those travelers who don't want to leave their wildlife viewing to chance, The BC Atlases point out opportunities and areas with times of year for planned wildlife viewing. These wildlife viewing opportunities include visiting birding hotspots, like bird festivals, sanctuaries and flyway locations; spawning runs for various fish species, whale migration routes and habitat areas for animals like bighorn sheep, grizzly, mountain goat, moose, bison and eagles.

For more information on wildlife viewing in various regions of the province, please download these PDF files produced for Wildlife Watch.

Wildlife Viewing in the Thompson region (PDF 450KB)
Wildlife Viewing in the Kootenay region (PDF 1.0MB)
Wildlife Viewing in the Cariboo region (PDF 1.0MB)
Wildlife Viewing in the Skeena region (PDF 450KB)
Wildlife Viewing in the Omineca region (PDF 1.0MB)
Wildlife Viewing in the Peace region (PDF 2.0MB)

There are also many bird checklists for various Parks and wildlife areas available or information on festivals and special events. These are all listed on the main site, please choose your link from the left hand column once you get to the Wildlife Viewing pages.