Animals in Finland: What You Can Spot, Learn, and Collect
Finland's wildlife: bears and wolverines from the Kuhmo hides, the Saimaa ringed seal, wild forest reindeer, great grey owls, Lapland ptarmigan and whooper swans.
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Finland is the best country in Europe to photograph brown bears and wolverines, from hides on the Russian border around Kuhmo and Lieksa where both species visit nightly in summer. It has around 2,500 lynx, 300 wolves, 100,000 moose and wild forest reindeer in Kainuu, plus the Saimaa ringed seal, a freshwater seal of about 500 animals found nowhere else. Whooper swans, great grey owls and hawk owls breed across the north, and Lapland adds ptarmigan, reindeer herds and the midnight sun.
Finland's eastern border forests are a wildlife corridor with Russian Karelia, and the bears, wolverines and wolves that move across it have made Kuhmo and Lieksa the bear-watching capitals of Europe. Hides sit at the edge of bogs and clearings, and from May to August a night in one almost always produces bears, often wolverines and sometimes a wolf pack. The same region holds Finland's wild forest reindeer, a rarer, longer-legged relative of the Lapland herds.
The lake district in the south-east has a seal that lives in fresh water. The Saimaa ringed seal, cut off from the Baltic when the land rose after the ice age, survives in Lake Saimaa and is watched from boats out of Oravi and Linnansaari in May and June when it hauls out on rocks. Lapland in the north brings semi-domesticated reindeer on every road, rock ptarmigan on the Saana fell at Kilpisjärvi, and more mosquitoes than anywhere else in Europe.
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Finland is one of the few places where a visitor can reliably see a wolverine, an animal that is almost mythically hard to find elsewhere. The Kuhmo and Lieksa hides have made it routine, and the images from them are a large share of all wolverine photographs ever taken.
The Saimaa ringed seal is also a conservation story that worked: from under 200 animals in the 1980s to around 500 now, thanks to fishing-net bans, snow-bank nests built by volunteers in mild winters and a lake community that adopted the seal as its emblem.
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Brown BearA
Finland's 2,000 or so bears are densest along the eastern border, and the Kuhmo and Lieksa hides in Kainuu and North Karelia show them almost every night from May to August.
Catatan spotting: Near-certain from a booked hide in June and July; the females bring cubs from late June.
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WolverineB
The same Kuhmo and Lieksa hides are the most reliable wolverine sites in the world, with animals coming to carcasses in the bog clearings at dusk and dawn.
Catatan spotting: Likely over a two-night hide stay in summer; otherwise very rare.
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Eurasian WolfA
Around 300 wolves live mostly along the eastern border and in the south-west, and packs cross the Kuhmo hide clearings on some summer nights.
Catatan spotting: Uncommon even from hides; a pack visit is a bonus, not an expectation.
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Eurasian LynxB
Finland has one of Europe's largest lynx populations at around 2,500, spread across the southern and central forests and increasingly seen on trail cameras near towns.
Catatan spotting: Rare to see; winter tracking in the south-west or Kainuu is the method.
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MooseA
About 100,000 moose browse Finland's forests, standing in clearcuts and bog edges at dusk from Lapland to the Helsinki hinterland.
Catatan spotting: Likely at dusk on forest roads anywhere; watch for them on the highway in autumn.
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ReindeerC
Lapland's reindeer are herded by the Sami and Finnish herders and graze roadsides from Rovaniemi north, while a few thousand wild forest reindeer live in the Kainuu bogs around Kuhmo.
Catatan spotting: Guaranteed on Lapland roads; wild forest reindeer are uncommon and need the Kuhmo bogs in summer.
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Saimaa Ringed SealB
The world's only freshwater ringed seal lives in Lake Saimaa, and boat trips from Oravi into Linnansaari National Park find them hauled out on sunny rocks in May and June.
Catatan spotting: Likely on a Linnansaari seal trip in late May and June when they moult on the rocks.
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Grey SealB
Baltic grey seals haul out on the outer skerries of the Archipelago Sea and the Gulf of Finland, and boat trips from Hanko and Turku visit them in summer.
Catatan spotting: Regular on archipelago seal trips; sometimes seen from Helsinki ferries.
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Whooper SwanC
Finland's national bird breeds on bog pools and forest lakes across the whole country, and its return in late March is the sign of spring from Turku to Inari.
Catatan spotting: Common from March to October on any lake; the bugling carries across the water.
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Great Gray OwlC
Great grey owls breed in the spruce forests of Ostrobothnia, Kainuu and Lapland in good vole years, hunting bog edges in broad daylight in summer.
Catatan spotting: Uncommon and irregular; Kuhmo and Oulu area clearings at dusk in a vole peak year.
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Northern Hawk OwlC
Hawk owls perch openly on spruce tops in Lapland and Kainuu, hunting by day and moving south in winters when voles crash.
Catatan spotting: Uncommon; roadside spruce tops in Lapland in autumn and winter are the place to look.
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Rock PtarmiganD
Rock ptarmigan live on the stony fell tops of north-west Lapland, with the Saana fell above Kilpisjärvi the classic accessible site.
Catatan spotting: Regular on the Saana summit plateau in summer; white and hard to see in winter.
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Arctic CharD
Arctic char swim the cold, clear lakes of Lapland such as Kilpisjärvi and Inari, and a landlocked population survives in Lake Saimaa alongside the seals.
Catatan spotting: Caught by anglers rather than seen; Kilpisjärvi in summer is the classic fishing site.
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MosquitoE
Lapland's summer mosquitoes are famous for a reason, rising in clouds from the bogs in June and July and feeding on every visitor who stands still.
Catatan spotting: Guaranteed in Lapland from mid-June to August; bring a head net.
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- Bear and wolverine hides around Kuhmo and Lieksa on the Russian border
- Saimaa ringed seal boat trips from Oravi and Linnansaari National Park
- Reindeer, ptarmigan and midnight-sun wildlife in Lapland
- Owls, swans and forest birds across the eastern and northern forests
Tips spotting
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- 01Book a Kuhmo or Lieksa hide for a two-night stay between late May and early August; arrive by late afternoon, stay silent and expect activity in the first and last hours of light.
- 02Saimaa seals haul out on sunny rocks in late May and June while moulting; take a small boat from Oravi with a local guide who knows the current haul-outs and keeps the legal distance.
- 03In Lapland drive slowly at dusk; reindeer stand on the road and moose cross it, and both are the main cause of accidents.
- 04The Saana fell at Kilpisjärvi has a marked trail to the summit plateau; ptarmigan, snow buntings and long-tailed skuas are on top in June and July.
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What wildlife is there in Finland?
Finland has brown bears, wolverines, wolves, lynx, moose, wild forest reindeer and beavers in its forests, Saimaa ringed seals in Lake Saimaa and grey seals on the Baltic coast, and great grey owls, hawk owls, whooper swans, cranes and ptarmigan among its birds. Lapland has semi-domesticated reindeer everywhere.
What animals can be found in Finland?
Bears and wolverines at the Kuhmo and Lieksa hides, ringed seals at Linnansaari on Lake Saimaa, moose on every forest road, reindeer across Lapland and ptarmigan on the Kilpisjärvi fells. Whooper swans are on every lake from March, and Helsinki's Korkeasaari Zoo keeps wolverines, Amur tigers and snow leopards.
Where can you see a wolverine in Finland?
The bear hides around Kuhmo and Lieksa on the Russian border are the most reliable wolverine sites anywhere. Book two nights between late May and August and the odds of at least one wolverine visit are good.
What is special about the Saimaa ringed seal?
It is one of the only freshwater seals in the world, trapped in Lake Saimaa when the land rose after the last ice age. Around 500 survive, protected by fishing restrictions, and boat trips from Oravi into Linnansaari National Park see them hauled out on rocks in late May and June.
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