Old Faithful on a live feed, plus static cameras on the geyser basin and the north entrance, run by the National Park Service.
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Yellowstone Webcams sits in Nature & Animal Cams under Wander, and we have it filed as instant — good within five seconds of loading. It reads as calming and beautiful.
Nest cams, reef cams, feeders and trackers. The best possible thing to leave open on a second monitor and glance at occasionally.
Waterhole cameras in southern African reserves, running since the nineties, where nothing happens for an hour and then everything does.
Brown bears standing in an Alaskan waterfall catching salmon in mid-air, live from Katmai, and the reason Fat Bear Week exists.
Nest and feeder cams run by the Cornell Lab, with ornithologists in the chat explaining what the bird is doing and why it matters.
The largest collection of live nature cams anywhere: bear falls, puppy rooms, osprey nests and coral reefs, all free and always running.
Every plant and animal anybody has photographed and posted, mapped, with a community that will identify your mystery beetle within hours.
Cameras pointed at geysers, glaciers, harbours and whichever volcano is currently misbehaving, plus a northern lights feed in winter.
Live cameras on the kelp forest, the aviary and the open sea tank, plus a sea otter feed that has ended many working afternoons.
The live feed from a deep-sea research ship's remote submersible, complete with scientists audibly losing composure over a new sea cucumber.