Black bears, mountains southeast USA
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Moose. We get European summer students and seeing one is the highlight of their animal watching when they're here, apparently.
Personally, I'm more impressed with elk, a bull elk with a full rack is pretty awesome.
It's wild to me that there are wild macaws in northern South America. Granted I haven't seen them in person, but even videos of them look so weird, like a hundred people let their pets out on accident.
Had some people visiting from Columbia. The squirrels absolutely blew their minds.
People everywhere ive been go apeshit over a squirrel.
I live in an area with grey/brown squirrels. When I went to Ohio for the first time, I was far more excited about seeing a black squirrel than I should have been.
Alligators. (I live in South Louisiana, which is a separate country for all intents and purposes.)
In the Pacific Northwest I’ve had visitors get really excited to see slugs.
Swans. It's a wonder to me that such an arrogant bird ever became the national pride of Denmark. But tourists freak out about them, thanks to H.C. Andersen.
In Rural America- "people of Walmart"
Armadillos
Peacocks. Where I live (central California) there is a local park that has a flock of wild peacocks. I had a friend visiting from Korea and he was so excited to see them.
Most USians probably expect to see monkeys and capybaras crossing the streets here in Brazil. There's a good chance to see the latter near most freshwater bodies, even in the capital, though monkeys will vary a lot more from place to place.
In UK people come from all over the world to see our royal family of great apes.
Guaras, or Guacamayas, I suppose. Think they're called Macaws in english. They're neat, pretty feathers and all. Shame they're hardly ever visible outside of a zoo, unless you're in the right spot at the right time and you're really paying attention.
Monkeys in a very snowy forest. I remember feeding them nuts once.
They're called macaques.
Alligators…not sure if that’s considered “common” or not. We don’t see them on a regular basis depending on your activities. If you fish/kayak a lot, you’ll see them. If you don’t, you generally won’t unless there’s a drought. Then they’ll be in intersections or in your parking lot at work looking for water.