Finding Wildlife: How to Track Animals and Anticipate Their Behaviour

Wildlife and Adventure Photography · Oct 22, 2026 · 28m · transcript

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Finding wildlife to photograph is often the first and biggest challenge. But simply locating an animal isn't enough. How do you work out where it is likely to be, understand what it is doing and anticipate what it might do next?

In this episode, I take a look at the practical skills that can make wildlife photography more successful: tracking animals, reading signs in the landscape, understanding behaviour and developing the fieldcraft needed to observe wildlife without disturbing it.

We will look at how to identify promising locations, recognise tracks and other evidence of…