Wildlife
On our private, small group, tailor-made tours, we cover a lot of wildlife locations, including visits to experience (and on request drop offs at / pick ups from):
Auchingarrich wildlife park
- Basking shark tours optional special interest additions on request and can be included on our Westcoast trips
Balranald nature reserve
Bass Rock, North Berwick, East Lothian – Bass Rock is the world’s largest colony of Northern gannets
Beavers
- Beavers – Perthshire rivers beaver walks & Tayvallich/Westcoast and the remote Argyll peninsulas – wild, stunningly beautiful location to spot wildlife Knapdale (Tayvallich beaver project)
Blair Drummond safari park
- Blair Drummond safari park – Blair Drummond
Cairngorms nationalpark
- locations throughout the Cairngorms nationalpark
Caperceilidh
Deer
Dolphins
- Chanonry Point Moray Firth dolphin colony (Black Isle) – one of the best land-based place in Europe for dolphin watching due to the narrows, perfect location for our mini-bus, somewhere where you can’t get to on a big coach
- Dolphins porpoising off the Mallaig ferry / Lochaber / Westcoast – Coast, sea Highlands & Islands – Unicorn Tours throughout Scotland
Dunvegan castle
- Dunvegan castle/Skye seal boat tours – Dunvegan castle
Edinburgh Royal botanic gardens
Edinburgh zoo
Falconry displays
Gairloch whale & wildlife watching
- can be included in our Northwest Highlands tours Hebridean whale cruises – during the pre-Covid summer seasons up to 2019 – each month during the summer, they have spotted over 800 cetaceans (dolphins, whales & porpoises), their whale/dolphin spotting success rate of any cruise is over 95%
Gairloch whale watching can be included into our
Spectacular Northwest Coast & NW Highlands – 3 day tour – 3D#2
Gannets
- Isle of Noss seabird colony / Shetland Isles – Coast, sea Highlands & Islands – Unicorn Tours throughout Scotland
- Troup head gannet colony
- Gannets / Northeast Coast – Coast, sea Highlands & Islands – Unicorn Tours throughout Scotland
- Gannets diving to fish – Unicorn Tours
- Hermaness national nature reserve seabird (incl. gannets & puffins) colony – Unst/Shetland – Unicorn Tours – with views of the UK’s most northerly point & the Muckle Flugga lighthouse
Gardens
- Gardens – if you are into botany, plants and flowers, join our tours along the mild Scottish Gulf stream coast with subtropical plants & gardens
Glasgow botanic gardens
Goats
Golden eagle
Hares
Hermaness national nature reserve on our Shetland tours – Unst, Shetland’s most northerly inhabited island for the best cliff & seabird walks with views of the Muckle Flugga most northerly lighthouse
- Hermaness national nature reserve – Unst/Shetland – 11th June 2022 – Unicorn Tours
- Cliff top seabird views from Unst – Scotland’s most northerly island
- Muckle Flugga & the lighthouse views in the distance from Hermaness
- Puffins, gannets & many seabirds at Hermaness – Unst, Shetland
- Stunning cliff top views @ the Hermaness national nature reserve on Unst – Shetland – Unicorn Tours – June 2022
- Shetland Isles – Unst – Hermaness seabird cliffs – Unicorn Tours
John Muir trust wild places
- a visit to any John Muir trust location
Kincraig Highland wildlife park
Loch Lomond & the Trossachs nationalpark
- locations throughout the Loch Lomond & Trossachs nationalpark
Loch Lomond islands
Marine protected areas
Montrose basin
North Ronaldsay ancient Viking Soay sheep (a visit and walk on North Ronaldsay can be included on our longer Orkney tours) – North Ronaldsay Soay sheep
Osprey Centre Scotland (Boat of Garten / Cairngorm nationalpark)
Otter spotting on our coastal & islands tours (highest chance of viewing on our longer and Shetland Islands tours) – Otters
Puffin spotting (highest chance of viewing on our Shetland & Outer Hebrides tours during April to early July) – Puffin viewing in Scotland
- Lunga / Treshnish Isles & puffin seabird breeding colony – excursion from Mull – videos # 2 – Coast, sea Highlands & Islands- Unicorn Tours throughout Scotland
- Castle o” Burrian puffin & seabird cliff walk – Westray / Orkney Isles – Coast, sea Highlands & Islands – Unicorn Tours throughout Scotland
- Castle o’ Burrian seabird & puffins clifftop walk – Isle of Westray “the jewel of the Orkneys” – Coast, sea Highlands & Islands – Unicorn Tours throughout Scotland
- Isle of May puffins / Firth of Forth – Coast, sea Highlands & Islands – Unicorn Tours throughout Scotland
- Isle of May puffins – Coast, sea Highlands & Islands – Unicorn Tours throughout Scotland
- Isle of May – breeding seabirds colony, largest East coast puffin colony – Unicorn Tours
- Hermaness national nature reserve seabird (incl. gannets & puffins) colony – Unst/Shetland – Unicorn Tours – with views of the UK’s most northerly point & the Muckle Flugga lighthouse
- Lunga / Treshnish Isles – excursion from Mull – Coast, sea Highlands & Islands- Unicorn Tours throughout Scotland
- Lunga / Treshnish Isles & the puffin seabird colony – excursion from Mull – Coast, sea Highlands, & Islands – Unicorn Tours throughout Scotland- videos # 1
- Lunga / Treshnish Isles & puffin seabird breeding colony – excursion from Mull – videos # 3 – Coast, sea Highlands & Islands- Unicorn Tours throughout Scotland
- Lunga / Treshnish Isles & puffin seabird breeding colony – excursion from Mull – videos # 6 – Coast, sea Highlands & Islands- Unicorn Tours throughout Scotland
- Lunga / Treshnish Isles & puffin seabird breeding colony – excursion from Mull – videos # 5 – Coast, sea Highlands & Islands- Unicorn Tours throughout Scotland
- Castle o’ Burrian seabird & puffins clifftop walk – Isle of Westray “the jewel of the Orkneys” – Coast, sea Highlands & Islands – Unicorn Tours throughout Scotland
Red deer
- Red deer – we see them particularly at dawn & dusk and during winter when they graze at lower levels, but all over, one of our walks in Knoydart we saw a herd of 150 and in Arisaig they were grazing on salty seaweed
- Red deer hinds
Red squirrels
Reindeer
- Reindeer centre & a pre-bookable Cairngorms mountain walk with visit/feeding session of the semi-wild Scottish reindeer herd
- Reindeer herd – Cairngorm nationalpark
- Cairngorms reindeer herd
- Cairngorm reindeer herd
RSPB sites
- Visits to any Scottish RSBP nature reserve
for example, RSPB Loch Leven
Scottish national nature reserves
Scottish seabird centre, North Berwick seabird centre (optional Bass Rock visits)
Scottish wildcat centre
Scottish wildlife trust reserves
- Visits to any Scottish wildlife trust reserve
Seabird cliffs
- Seabird cliffs viewing areas throughout Scotland
Seals
- Seal viewing locations (harbour & common seals from a safe distance) throughout Scotland – Seals in Scotland
- Grey seals’ breeding season @ St Abbs head national nature reserve – Berwickshire – Scottish Borders – Coast, sea, Highlands & Islands – Unicorn Tours
- Seal colony on Shetland’s South mainland – Unicorn Tours 10 June 2022 + Westerwick walk + West Burra
Sheep
- Easter sunrise & the sheep on the Isle of Lewis – Unicorn Tours
- Moidart black sheep
- North Ronaldsay Soay sheep
- Pre-lambing, shepherding in the Ochils – Coast, sea Highlands & Islands – Unicorn Tours throughout Scotland
St. Andrews botanic gardens & butterflies
Trees for life
Woodland trust site
- A visit to any Woodland trust site
- & many more
Unicorn Tours is a specialist for wildlife tours and on our private tours, we can include most of these sights and places.
We are happy to include your interests, hobbies, activities, preferences, destinations and tour themes in
your own private, tailormade personal tours:
| 5, 6, 7 days | 4 days | 3 days |
| 2 days | Scottish destinations/Tour extensions & add ons | 1 day |
| Activities, special interests & tour themes | Walking tours | ½ & short day tours |