Originally posted by Dave K ...Need stability for distance and wildlife...
Welcome to the forum, Dave.
Which telephoto lens do you plan to use? Very long focal lengths need more stability (and more expensive tripods) than wider angle lenses.
I saw your "Hello" thread where you mentioned being away from photography and recently getting back with a K-70. Depending on how new you are in this return to photography, you may or may not be aware that the K-70 does well at high ISO. It might be feasible to increase ISO to get a fast enough shutter speed for handheld wildlife photos. If you are photographing wildlife in such dim light that ISO can't help enough, the tripod will let you take longer exposures, but the wildlife might move during that longer exposure.
Tripods can still be a useful tool, though. My tripods are used for night photography, plus daytime long exposures with a neutral density filter. In general, I can recommend Sirui for small travel tripods, and Manfrotto for larger tripods, because that's what I have experience with. They've held up well.