Besides wildlife, a superzoom is especially useful for any subject you can’t physically get close to. A common example is outdoor sports, where long reach helps fill the frame from the sidelines or stands.

You can also use a long focal length creatively for stitched shallow-depth-of-field panoramas, often called the Brenizer method: shoot multiple overlapping telephoto frames and stitch them together for a wider view with stronger background blur than a single wide shot would give.

That said, cameras like the SX60 trade zoom range for low-light performance. The small sensor and relatively slow lens make indoor sports and other dim scenes much harder, since you may need higher ISO or slower shutter speeds than ideal. So the strongest uses are generally distant subjects in good light, plus telephoto stitching experiments.