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site last updated: Jan 12, 2012

This site is for anyone who wants to watch mammals in the wild. Mammal watching is considerably easier than many people imagine: there are plenty of mammals around the place - they just take a bit more effort to find than those birds that so obligingly fly squawking through the air.

Thousands of websites around the world are dedicated to bird watching - with their trip reports, tips on where to find different species, information on latest sightings and so on. But the mammal watchers amongst us have much less information to turn to. I'd like to develop this site as a source of information about where and how to find many of the world's 5,500 mammal species. And so I'm including here the sort of information that I find useful when planning a trip.

HIGHLIGHTS

North America (Nearctic)s		Africa (Afrotropical)		Eurasia (Palearctic)
Arizona 98 & 10 Baffin Island, 06 California, 98, 10 & 11 Colorado, 92 & 11 Idaho, 09 & 10 Maine, 06 Washington, 09 & 10 Yukon, 06		Central African Republic, 11 Ethiopia, 07 & 08 Ghana, 07 Kenya, 11 Madagascar, 10 Namibia, 08 Rwanda, 07 South Africa, 02, 07, 08 & 09 Tanzania, 91 & 11 Zambia, 91 & 92 Zimbabwe, 91		Belarus, 06 China, 05 & 09 Estonia, 10 & 11 Finland, 07 & 08 France, 05 - 10 Hungary, 10 Japan, 07 & 09 Korea, 06, 07 & 09 Kyrgyzstan, 09 Poland, 08 Russia, 08 Spain, 08 & 11 Spitsbergen, 06 Tunisia, 08 Turkey, 06 & 07 The UK
Latin America (Neotropics)		South & South-East Asia (Oriental)		Australasia, the Pacific & Antarctica
Brazil, 06, 07 & 09 Chile, 09 Costa Rica, 10 Colombia, 06, 07 & 08 Paraguay, 10		Bhutan, 08 Borneo, 04 & 08 India, 97, 07, 08 & 11 Indonesia, 10 Malaysia, 04, 08 & 10 Sri Lanka, 00 & 10 Thailand 03, 04, 06, 07, 08 & 10 Vietnam, 11		The Australian Capital Territory New South Wales The Northern Territory Queenland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia

For a full list of countries covered then follow the regional links below.

If you've any ideas for pages that should be linked to this, trip reports with a focus on mammal sightings, or any other information that might interest mammal watchers please email me or visit the mammal watching forum where you can share information - or make requests for information - with others, and subscribe to emails notifying you of new posts to the blog or this site.

Jon Hall  Canberra, Australia, 2005