Cape to Kgalagadi via the Karoo- day to day itinerary help
Hi All this is my and my Mum’s trip itinerary to South Africa in Mid Sept. Please help us to plan our stay, especially the first few days where we are doing more of the touristy things. We are looking for suggestions on, how to structure our first few...
Offset your mammalwatching emissions by saving pygmy hippos
Gola Rainforest National Park in Sierra Leone is an extraordinary place. Jon Hall, Phil and Ashley Telfer and Charles Foley spent 6 nights there in April 2017 (http://www.mammalwatching.com/2017/04/15/pygmy-hippo-2017-search-podgy-unicorn/) and succeeded in seeing hammer-headed bats, water chevrotain, royal antelope and most amazingly, pygmy hippo. The 700km2 site is the core...
New Trip Report: Newfoundland & Nova Scotia, 2017
Here’s a final trip from North America for a while from Vladimir Dinets, who is moving to Japan. The USA won’t be the same without him! Newfoundland & Nova Scotia, 2017: Vladimid Dinets’s farewell to North America trip, with Canadian Lynx and Marten on Newfoundland and Sowerby’s Beaked Whales over...
New Trip Report: Scottish Beavers
Here’s a short report from Matthew and Maureen Hart on a good spot to see Beavers in Perthshire and Fife, Scotland. Scottish Beavers, 2017: Matthew and Maureen Hart, 4 days & 8 species including European Beaver. Jon
NozoMojo Tours and Arts Falkland Island Tour Report
Falkland islands tour report (small) NozoMojo Tours and Arts did a 2-week circumnavigation of the Falkland Islands December 2016. Awesome trip, not huge in mammals obviously, but we saw the good ones that are there …
Svalbard 2016 season report
Svalbard 2016 season Report (small) NozoMojo Tours and Arts had 32 days in the High Arctic in 2016, with a total of 15 mammal species recorded. Enjoy!
Advice for Thailand
Dear all I am planning a mammal/bird trip to Thailand for April. Our main site is Kaeng Krachen. I have got Richard Webb’s trip report plus bird gen but if anyone else has mammal watching gen/tips they’d like to share I’d be grateful. It sounds like spot-lighting is very...
New Report: Lesser Antilles
Here’s a report from Vladimir Dinets focussing on the endemic mammals of the Lesser Antilles islands. Lesser Antilles, 2017: Vladimir Dinets, notes of several visits featuring most of the endemic species. Jon
taking a brief trip to sequoia/kings canyon-any things to check out in the area?
Hello, I will be taking a brief trip to sequoia with my wife and friend the last week of july. We are going to do one day around the giant forest and another driving through to zumwalt meadow, are there any good spots to check out on the way...
Azores June 2017 Trip Report
This is my first trip report and also me introducing myself to the forum! I hope it proves useful to anyone planning on visiting the islands for whale watching too. Azores June 2017
Javan Rhino!
What a sighting!!!! A loyal client and good friend of Martin Royle and Royle Safaris (Chris Scharf) has just returned from his latest trip to Ujong Kulon National Park in Indonesia and has come back with the most incredible shots of a beautiful Javan Rhino. This is possibly the...
New Jersey Mammal Watching Sites
New Jersey has some interesting mammals, including the critically endangered Governor Chris Christie, and Vladimir Dinets saw a bunch of them during his year or so living in the state. Happy 4th of July to everyone watching – or barbecuing – mammals in the USA today. New Jersey Mammal Watching:...
Mongolia Field Guide
I’m going to Mongolia in a month & I wondered which Mammal book to get? And Birds for that matter. Any help much appreciated. Mike
New Trip Report: Outer Alaska
Here’s a report from Vladimir Dinet’s trip around Alaska, including the Pribilof Islands. Outer Alaska, 2017: Vladimir Dinets, spring 2017 and many speciality species including Pribilof and St Lawrence Island Shrews, Tundra Voles, Holarctic Least Shrew and Unalaska Collared Lemmings. Jon
New Trip Report: Uganda 2017
Here’s a new report, and first post, from Philip Precey – thanks Philip. Uganda, 2017: Philip Precey, 2 weeks and 55 species including Grey-cheeked Mangabey, Patas Monkey, Marsh Mongoose and Giant Forest Hogs. Jon
New Trip Report: Sabah
Hello from Manaus, where I have just gotten off the boat after two ridiculously successful weeks on rivers around the Amazon with Fiona Reid. A trip report will take a bit of time but we ended up with about 80 different species (quite remarkable for the Amazon) including 21...
New Trip Report: Iriomote Island, Japan
A new report from Gareth Knass who, while birding on the Ryuku Islands visited Iriomote Island. Iriomote, 2017: Gareth Knass and Shaun Coyle, who in 24 hours on Iriomote saw Iriomote Wild Cat and Ryuku Flying Fox. Jon
ID help with squirrel at Bantimurung Waterfall, Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Dear All, On 17 June, I’ve did a half day short trip to Bantimurung Waterfall (part of Bantimurung-Bulusaraung National Park) near Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Besides several Sulawesi endemic birds, also seen two squirrals over there. It was too dark, and the squirrels was too quick for my cell phone to...
Borneo Trip Report
Sorry if this is a repeat for some. I originally posted it to the old blog. I have finally finished a long trip report for the two weeks we spent in Sabah in March and April. Despite lots of rain, it was a fantastic trip. We didn’t end...
New research confirms that Africa has 2 species of living elephants
This article, just out, is open Access (hurray!). You can Google the title and you will find it. Title: Palaeogenomes of Eurasian straight-tusked elephants challenge the current view of elephant evolution Authors: Matthias Meyer et al. Saludos Héctor Gómez de Silva Mexican ornithologist (mostly)
Requesting help re: mammal sign in N. Georgia
Hello all, Recently I explored a riparian tract along the Chattahoochee River just north of Atlanta, Georgia (USA). In open, wooded thickets, some distance from the water and rather steep river bank, I found a number of small, shallow mammalian digs – photo of one attached herein. These were...
Northern Flying Squirrel Split
A mitochondrial DNA study has shown that the flying squirrels occurring on the Pacific coast of North America are distinct from Northern Flying Squirrels, with no evidence of hybridization in a zone of sympatry: (link). The authors call this cryptic species Humboldt’s Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys oregonensis).
New Trip Report: Summertime on the Changthang Plateau (Ladakh)
Here’s an interesting report from Anjana and Rishi and Wildtales.In who went to Ladakh to look for things other than Snow Leopards and saw a Pallas’s Cat. Changthang Plateau, Ladakh, 2016: Anjana & Rishi, eight days and a Pallas’s Cat among other mammals like Tibetan Wild Ass (Kiangs). Jon
Amur leopard tour
Is anyone interested in the use of a special photography hide (3 pax maximum – with one place already booked) located in the best place in the world for Amur Leopard photography next February (2018) we can have the option to combine Siberian tiger tracking and Amur leopard photography...
A Site for Spotted Linsang
This paper has some beautiful photos of Spotted Linsang from Nam Et – Phou Louey National Biodiversity Conservation Area in Laos: (link). It states that “A local guide… remarked that the species is commonly seen.” I always take statements made by guides with a grain of salt, but Linsangs are difficult...
Mystery shrew
This shrew was hand-caught in a dry tundra-like bog near Dillingham, Alaska. Hb=40 mm, t=20 mm, hf=9.5 mm (too small to be an adult of any Alaskan species). Sorex cinereus in that area had more bicolored tails, and S. minutissimus have more slender snouts, so I’m thinking either S....
South India & Tadoba Mammal Tour – Trip Report from Royle Safaris
South India’s Endemic Mammals and Tadoba’s Tiger Trip Report A trip report from Southern India where we searched for the endemic mammals and also visited the wonderful Tadoba National Park, we found 57 species of mammals including Tigers, Leopards, Sloth Bear, Dhole, Chowsingha, Nilgiri tahr, Nilgiri marten, Nilgiri langur,...
New Trip Report: Finland 2017
Here’s a new report from Samuel Marlin who visited Finland again in May and took some great photos. Finland, 2017: Samuel Marlin, 7 species including Wolverine, Wolf, Brown Bear and Stoat. Jon
Mammal watching in Slovenia
Dear mammal watching community We spontaneously decided to go to Slovenia for mammal watching in the end of July. We couldn’t find much information on good places to visit and were wondering if anybody would have any tip for us? Thank you very much. Sophie and Manuel
Bowhead Whale off New Hampshire
A Bowhead Whale was the star of Sunday’s pelagic trip out of Rye Harbour. Possibly the same individual that was off of Cape Cod a few weeks ago. Very cool! I am going to the Amazon tomorrow for 2.5 weeks so my apologies if I am slow to respond...
Canada in July
Dear All, I’m going to be traveling in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland on July 5-9, mostly for marine mammals but also for other interesting fauna. If anybody would like to join me and share the costs of car rentals and ferries, please let me know 🙂 Vladimir Dinets
RFI – Wyoming in September
Hi, I will be visiting Yellowstone/Teton late August/early September this year but will also have time to visit to visit other parts of Wyoming and Badlands NP/Custer State Park in South Dakota. I think I will also include the City of Rocks reserve and possibly Fossil Butte for the...
RFI: France and Spain in July
I’m going to Barcelona for a conference next month, with a week of travel in France beforehand, and I’m hoping to add some mammal-watching to my trip. Most successful trip reports are from other times of year, but that might be because of the heat rather than the chances of...
Argentina: A weekend in Entre Ríos
I have long wanted to visit Argentina, even before I read Richard Webb’s 2013 report from El Palmar. But save for a brief excursion across the border from Brazil at Iguazu Falls in 2009, I had to wait until June 2017: a work trip to Buenos Aries gave me an...
Belated trip report – Latvia (and a bit of Estonia) March 2016
The second re-posted report after a mishap with the original last year. A short note on mammals from a few (mostly birding days) in Latvia and coastal Estonia. cheers Mike EstoniaLatvia 2016
Belated Trip report – Western India November-December 2015
Thought I’d uploaded this last year, but I’ve just tried to make an edit to the report and it appears to have gone AWOL (along with another note I was trying to post). Not sure what happened, but I think it was around the time mammalwatching migrated to the new website;...
Southern California: Rampaging Rodents & Galloping Gunshots
In early May I read Venkat Sankar’s report detailing a cornucopia of small mammals in southern California. I had to be physically restrained from taking a suitcase, spotlight and taxi to the airport. I was powerless to resist and booked a ticket a few days later. Next thing I knew I was landing in...
Do you know your serows?
I had recently announced to be done with a roundup on gorals. You find this “caprinae world”-chapter on my website: http://www.wilddocu.de/category/allgemein/caprinae-world/species/gorals-nemorhaedus-sp/ Now I have finished the next chapter. This one is on serows, another group of large, goatlike mammals from Far East and Southeast Asia, that has been overlooked...
Carrizo Plains (brief update)
I camped at KCL Campground on 05 June 2017 while en route to a poetry gig in San Francisco. No badgers or kit foxes on the road in (just one coyote). K-rats (including Giant) abundant along road despite nearly full moon. Lush but now dried vegetation after the big...
Recommendations for New Jersey Mammal Watching?
Hi, I live in New Jersey and my dad and I have come up with a “New Jersey Big 5” that we are going to see if we can spot at parks and forests. Our big five are: Beaver, Otter, Porcupine, Black Bear and Bobcat. If anyone has any...
