Wildlifeof Bolivia
Sources & photo credits
Where the species list and photos come from.
About this guide
A growing, species-first field guide to the wildlife of Bolivia: mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. This edition lists about 2,300 species, about 1,400 of them with photographs. Species descriptions are still being written.
How the species list was built
Mammals come from the Mammal Diversity Database, whose ranges include Bolivia. Birds, reptiles and amphibians come from GBIF occurrence records in Bolivia (retrieved October 2026) matched to the Clements/eBird and Catalogue of Life checklists: birds with at least 20 records, reptiles and amphibians with at least 5. Species with fewer records, which can be vagrants, escapes or misidentifications, are held back until they have been checked by hand. Recently renamed species may be missing until the lists are updated. The Tilcayo (Leopardus tilcayo), a small spotted cat from the Bolivian Yungas described in 2026, was added by hand. Common names follow the same lists, then the other Wildlife of Everywhere guides, then Wikipedia; many frogs, lizards and small mammals have no English name yet, so their scientific name is shown.
Why there is no conservation status
This guide shows only national Red List categories, never global IUCN ones. Bolivia's national assessments are not yet included, so no status label is shown yet.
Reference sources
- Mammal Diversity Database: mammal names and ranges (CC BY 4.0)
- Clements/eBird taxonomy: bird names and taxonomy
- Catalogue of Life: reptile and amphibian taxonomy (CC BY 4.0)
- GBIF – Bolivia: occurrence records used to build the lists
Trip reports
Field trip reports from Royle Safaris, reproduced in full with the authors’ photographs. Every photo is credited to its photographer.
Planning a visit
Many parks need permits, guides or boat transport, roads and rivers change with the wet and dry seasons, and altitude is a real health factor on the Altiplano. Check with the reserve or your operator before you travel rather than relying on the details here.
Wildlife sightings are never guaranteed. The species listed for each place are what is realistically possible there, not what you should expect on a given day.
Your plans and sightings
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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
Photographs come from iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA licences, or were taken by the Wildlife of Everywhere team. Each one keeps its photographer's name, licence and a link to the original.
Photographs are chosen to show the species clearly, so many were taken elsewhere in its range rather than in Bolivia. Tap the i on any photograph to see who took it. The full list is below.