Canaima National Park

🇻🇪 Venezuela

🐸 Spot Elusive Poison Dart Frogs

⏱ 4–6 days 🥾 Challenging trails

🌍 #169 Global · 3.6 ★★★★★ ★★★★★ #31 in South America #80 in Tropical Forest

Gran Sabana, Venezuela 1532 spp. recorded

Canaima is tepui country — flat-topped sandstone tables above savanna — and the animals that define it live nowhere else. The Roraima bush toad, a black pebble of a frog that walks rather than hops, turns up on eight climbs in ten.

5.459° N 61.870° W

Wildlife

⭐ Iconic Species

Roraima Bush Toad

Oreophrynella quelchii

60–70% · Likely

Peters' Lava Lizard

Tropidurus hispidus

50–60% · Likely

Yellow-headed Poison Frog

Dendrobates leucomelas

40–50% · Likely

Pristimantis aureoventris

Insufficient data

📊 Most Spotted

Rufous-collared Sparrow

Zonotrichia capensis

50–60% · Likely

Tropical Kingbird

Tyrannus melancholicus

50–60% · Likely

Blue-and-white Swallow

Notiochelidon cyanoleuca

50–60% · Likely

Bananaquit

Coereba flaveola

50–60% · Likely

Turdus murinus

50–60% · Likely

Tepui Brush-Finch

Atlapetes personatus

40–50% · Likely

Blue-gray Tanager

Thraupis episcopus

40–50% · Likely

Silver-beaked Tanager

Ramphocelus carbo

40–50% · Likely

Black-headed Tanager

Stilpnia cyanoptera

40–50% · Likely

Turkey Vulture

Cathartes aura

40–50% · Likely

Greater Flowerpiercer

Diglossa major

40–50% · Likely

Speckled Tanager

Ixothraupis guttata

40–50% · Likely

📊 Most Spotted

South American Coati

Nasua nasua

Insufficient data

Weeper Capuchin

Cebus olivaceus

Insufficient data

Southern Tamandua

Tamandua tetradactyla

Insufficient data

📊 Most Spotted

Rufous-collared Sparrow

Zonotrichia capensis

50–60% · Likely

Tropical Kingbird

Tyrannus melancholicus

50–60% · Likely

Blue-and-white Swallow

Notiochelidon cyanoleuca

50–60% · Likely

Bananaquit

Coereba flaveola

50–60% · Likely

Turdus murinus

50–60% · Likely

Tepui Brush-Finch

Atlapetes personatus

40–50% · Likely

Blue-gray Tanager

Thraupis episcopus

40–50% · Likely

Silver-beaked Tanager

Ramphocelus carbo

40–50% · Likely

Black-headed Tanager

Stilpnia cyanoptera

40–50% · Likely

Turkey Vulture

Cathartes aura

40–50% · Likely

Greater Flowerpiercer

Diglossa major

40–50% · Likely

Speckled Tanager

Ixothraupis guttata

40–50% · Likely

⭐ Iconic Species

Peters' Lava Lizard

Tropidurus hispidus

50–60% · Likely

📊 Most Spotted

Common Lancehead

Bothrops atrox

Insufficient data

Red Neusticurus

Neusticurus rudis

Insufficient data

Amazon Racerunner

Ameiva ameiva

Insufficient data

Rainbow Whiptail

Cnemidophorus lemniscatus

Insufficient data

Bothrops taeniata

Bothrops taeniatus

Insufficient data

🦎 No photo available

Riolama leucosticta

Insufficient data

Amazon Puffing Snake

Spilotes sulphureus

Insufficient data

Mastigodryas pleei

Mastigodryas pleii

Insufficient data

Leaf Anole

Anolis planiceps

Insufficient data

Grass Anole

Anolis auratus

Insufficient data

Mountain Keelback

Helicops angulatus

Insufficient data

Blind Ground Snake

Erythrolamprus typhlus

Insufficient data

⭐ Iconic Species

Roraima Bush Toad

Oreophrynella quelchii

60–70% · Likely

Yellow-headed Poison Frog

Dendrobates leucomelas

40–50% · Likely

Pristimantis aureoventris

Insufficient data

📊 Most Spotted

Boana jimenezi

Insufficient data

Rusty Tree Frog

Boana boans

Insufficient data

Longnose Frog

Leptodactylus longirostris

Insufficient data

Rhinella nattereri

Rhinella nattereri

Insufficient data

La Escalera Tree Frog

Boana sibleszi

Insufficient data

🐸 No photo available

Otophryne steyermarki

Insufficient data

Eastern Tepui Rocket Frog

Anomaloglossus roraima

Insufficient data

Drylands Tree Frog

Boana xerophylla

Insufficient data

Guyana White-lipped Frog

Leptodactylus rugosus

Insufficient data

Whistling Grass Frog

Leptodactylus fuscus

Insufficient data

Leptodactylus sabanensis

Insufficient data

🐸 No photo available

Stefania roraimae

Insufficient data

Animal Events

🐸

Roraima Bush Toads on the Summits

DecJanFeb

Roraima bush toads are active on the tepui summits, recorded on more than nine climbs in ten.

Roraima Bush Toad

Oreophrynella quelchii

60–70% · Likely

🐸

Poison Frogs in the Savanna

JulAugSep

Yellow-banded poison frogs call from the rocks and leaf litter of the Gran Sabana.

Yellow-headed Poison Frog

Dendrobates leucomelas

40–50% · Likely

🦎

Lizards and Tree Frogs in the Late Rains

OctNov

Hispid lizards bask on the open rock while golden-bellied rain frogs call after dark.

Peters' Lava Lizard

Tropidurus hispidus

50–60% · Likely

Pristimantis aureoventris

Insufficient data

Sighting Calendar

Chance of spotting each species, month by month

Species Total

40–50

40–50

40–50

30–40

50–60

60–70

30–40

40–50

30–40

50–60

50–60

40–50

Roraima Bush Toad

70–80

70–80

60–70

70–80

40–50

40–50

30–40

70–80

30–40

60–70

60–70

60–70

Peters' Lava Lizard

40–50

40–50

60–70

30–40

40–50

40–50

20–30

50–60

60–70

50–60

70–80

30–40

Yellow-headed Poison Frog

10–20

30–40

20–30

20–30

60–70

70–80

20–30

60–70

20–30

20–30

40–50

20–30

Pristimantis aureoventris

10–20

20–30

10–20

10–20

20–30

20–30

10–20

10–20

10–20

70–80

10–20

20–30

Rufous-collared Sparrow

60–70

60–70

40–50

40–50

60–70

70–80

40–50

50–60

30–40

70–80

50–60

40–50

Tropical Kingbird

70–80

60–70

60–70

40–50

40–50

80–90

30–40

50–60

60–70

40–50

50–60

50–60

Blue-and-white Swallow

50–60

40–50

40–50

20–30

70–80

80–90

50–60

40–50

30–40

80–90

40–50

40–50

30–40

50–60

30–40

50–60

40–50

80–90

50–60

50–60

50–60

60–70

60–70

50–60

Pantepui Thrush

50–60

40–50

30–40

20–30

60–70

50–60

50–60

40–50

30–40

60–70

70–80

40–50

Tepui Brush-Finch

40–50

50–60

30–40

30–40

50–60

50–60

40–50

40–50

30–40

40–50

60–70

30–40

Blue-gray Tanager

20–30

40–50

50–60

30–40

30–40

70–80

20–30

30–40

60–70

70–80

40–50

30–40

Silver-beaked Tanager

40–50

50–60

20–30

30–40

30–40

50–60

30–40

40–50

50–60

70–80

30–40

40–50

Black-headed Tanager

30–40

40–50

40–50

20–30

50–60

60–70

30–40

40–50

20–30

70–80

40–50

20–30

50–60

20–30

40–50

20–30

50–60

30–40

20–30

40–50

30–40

20–30

60–70

50–60

Greater Flowerpiercer

30–40

40–50

30–40

20–30

60–70

40–50

30–40

40–50

20–30

20–30

50–60

30–40

Speckled Tanager

10–20

60–70

20–30

20–30

40–50

60–70

20–30

20–30

20–30

40–50

70–80

50–60

Animal Events

🐸 Roraima Bush Toads on the Summits

🐸 Poison Frogs in the Savanna

🦎 Lizards and Tree Frogs in the Late Rains

Sighting Zones

Warm areas are where all species together are recorded most, so they track where people go as much as where animals are. For one species, see the map on its own page.

0.0 ★★★★★ ★★★★★ Good

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Biodiversity

Excellent

How rich is the wildlife?

4.3 Global avg

5.0 ★★★★★ ★★★★★

Species by taxon

🦅 Birds

898

🐒 Mammals

282

🦎 Reptiles

207

🐸 Amphibians

145

1532 Total Species

841 Global average across 280 parks

45 Threatened 65 Endemic

🔭

Sighting

Good

How likely to see animals?

3.6 Global avg

3.1 ★★★★★ ★★★★★

🎯

Top-12 Avg Probability

62% Global avg

50%

📊

Coverage (258 species at ≥5% of 1532 in the inventory)

24% Global avg

17%

🔀

Taxon variety in top 12 (10 bird, 1 amphibian, 1 reptile)

47% Global avg

39%

🔭

Species per 10 outings (distinct species a visitor would meet over 10 outings — effort held equal across parks)

132 Global avg

207

🌟

Iconic-group species (≥15%) (every species from the 19 iconic groups — monkeys, cats, toucans, macaws, sloths, crocodilians… — not just the 4 highlighted above)

14 Global avg

11

⭐

High-prob species (>40%)

26 Global avg

15

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