Best Places Where You Can Spot Wildlife in Singapore Including Monkeys, Crocodile, Monitor Lizard and more
If you love spotting some wildlife creature in public places where you can enjoy tranquil sanctuaries to a variety of jungle creatures including monkeys, birds, monitor lizards, otters, and even crocodiles then this tropical island which boasts rich wildlife and rainforest will offer you some awesome sighting of these wildlife creatures.
Coney Island
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This was once an untouched island with a solitary cow but these days Coney Island in Punggol is filled with a variety of animals where everything on the island is kept rustic and undisturbed where you can see some native macaques and other wildlife such as snakes and rare birds including the resident baya weavers in the natural habitat.
MacRitchie Reservoir
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This TreeTop Walk at MacRitchie Reservoir will take you through different stages of a mature secondary forest where the Bridge part rises as high as 27 meters where you can see as many as 80 different species as well as different types of tree too. There are also monitor lizards as you take a walk along the 11-kilometer loop trail here.
Labrador Nature Reserve
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This place is known as Labrador Park where this nature reserve is home to a very shy and nocturnal creature the pangolin where you will likely spot it in the evening or night or perhaps around an area where there’s an ant nest at the tiny insect is its favorite midnight snack. During the day there will be over 70 different species of birds have been spotted here including the woodpecker, blue corned parrot, Abbott’s babbler, and white-bellied sea eagle too.
Singapore Botanic
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Established in 1859, this Gardens is a tranquil respite from the city buzz where the UNESCO World Heritage Site features attractions like a swan lake where visitors can feed the black Australian swans and watch turtles too. The park also has plenty of lizards of all sizes including massive monitor lizards crawling around.
Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
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This place is a sanctuary for a type of monkey that is native in Southeast Asia where this crab-eating macaque is friendly by nature and might get aggressive when you show your teeth as it feels like being attacked. Visitors are encouraged not to feed the monkeys there too. There are also nature reserves also such as turtles and other jungle creatures crawling around but the main highlight is the summit trail with Singapore’s highest elevation point of 163 meters.
Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
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Here is the place where you can wear your walking shoes and trudge through the swamps of Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve to learn more about the flora and fauna at this mangrove forest home. This wetland reserve of mangrove swamps ponds and secondary forest is also home to 140 species of birds where you can take a spot at the observation hides or rent binoculars to bird watch but also keep a lookout for warning signs about estuarine crocodiles too.
Pulau Ubin
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This sprawling 1,020 hectares where Pulau Ubin boasts lush greenery and abundant wildlife, drawing nature lovers and outdoor enthusiasts to explore the many wonders of the granite island. Be sure to watch out for wild boars especially at Chek Jawa on the eastern side of the island where you can then enjoy your journey towards the mangrove area to spot mud crabs and rare otters and get your binocular out at Pekan Quarry for some bird watching and there are also on-site telescopes available for you to see the colorful birds up close and personal too.
Punggol Waterway Park
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Located in a quiet tranquil area in the northeastern part of Singapore this park offers four unique themes with something in store for nature lovers of all ages. The area is a bird-watching paradise that attracts many feathered friends such as common collared kingfisher, black-naped oriole, long-tailed shrike, pink-necked green pigeon, yellow-vented bulbul, rose-ringed parakeet, and white-throated kingfisher.