Wildlife

A wildlife vacation is equal to a vacation of surprises. You might be searching for the bears and tracking their footsteps, and suddenly you’re surprised to see two baby gazelles playing with each other outside their hideouts. On your birding trip, you have planned to see the brown fish owl in Khuzestan, but you’ll surprisingly find spotted owlets instead. These are only two instances of sweet natural surprises. You can experience these moments with VisitOurIran responsible travels. In VisitOurIran, we believe that protecting the natural reserves and conserving wildlife is our foremost responsibility. Our tours and experiences are designed to kindle your appreciation for both nature and its rangers.

From north to south, Iran has many essential habitats that are home to unique species of birds. The expansive coastlines and wetlands of Iran are each year host to many migratory birds. From Siberian white crane, White-crowned Penduline, Little Bustard, Pallas's Sandgrouse in northern wetlands to great knots, crab-plovers, and Sind woodpeckers in the mangrove forests of Hormozgan Province, Iran birding tour in full of marvels. However, the endemic pleske’s ground jay is the bridal species of Iran central deserts.

Join us in a memorable journey with the wildlife rangers to search for the endangered species residing inside Iran wild frontiers. Together, we will explore inside Tandoureh National Park, one of the safe havens for Persian leopards. And then, we will visit the little Africa of Iran, Turan National Park. Turan is the last haven to the largest remaining population of the gorgeous Asiatic cheetahs. Persian onagers are also one of the endangered species inside the Turan Protected Area.

Between the mountainous highland of the Alborz Mountains and the lush Hyrcanian Forests are a number of protected areas where we can find traces of brown bears. Join us in an adventure to look for these traces and find the brown bear’s footsteps with our experts and get closer and closer to the targets. You’ll sometimes be mesmerized as you find them playing with each other like children or when they’re trying hard to climb a tree to find its delicious fruits.

Come with us to see the narrative of nature twisting and turning in the breadth of Golestan National Park. This park is rich in both flora and fauna. In our exploration, we might be able to see wild animals such as wild boars, Persian leopards, brown bears, Caspian red deer, roe deer, goitered gazelles, Persian ibexes, Urial sheep, and birds like golden eagles, common buzzards, woodpeckers, see-see partridges, griffon vultures, Egyptian vultures, black vultures, and bearded vultures.

Hormozgan Province is one of the unique places to go for birding in Iran. Among the Mangrove forests that have spread their shadow on the surface of wetlands and estuaries along the coastline, we can find many precious bird species. Lichtenstein’s sandgrouse, goliath heron, great stone plover, oriental white-eye, greater and lesser sand plover, great knots, crab-plovers, Sind woodpeckers, and swift terns are among the many more aquatic birds you might see if you venture for a birding tour in Iran.

In these vast desert lands, a large population of jebeer gazelles and Persian onagers have gathered. Join us to see the cute sand cats hiding among thorny bushes. Caracals, grey wolves, striped hyenas, sand and foxes, are among the other wild animals you might see among the salt pans of Kavir National Park. You might be lucky to see one of the few remaining Asiatic cheetahs in this area. Iranian ground jay, see-see partridge, and bustard are among the particular birds you will find sitting on the top of the shrubs.