Michael Kessler visited Vienna during the summer and sent me mammalwatching.com’s first Austrian Report.
Vienna, 2016: Michael Kessler’s notes on some mammals spotted around the city including Black-bellied Hamster, Particoloured Bat and Wild Boar.
Jon
Because your site has helped me planning trips and made it therefore possible to see a clouded leopard, spectacled...
Now here’s a real adventure! Frans De Schamphelaere is just back from the Darwaz Mountains on the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border....
A new report from Valentin Moser on the hunt for European Bison. Eastern Poland, 2020: Valentin Moser, 4 days...
MINNESOTA: Canada Lynx & Northern Owls Departing Feb 2020: This will be our fifth consecutive year running this tour and...
John Wright just got back from another successful trip to Scotland. Scotland, 2018: John Wright, 5 days & 16...
John Dixon sent me this article on a project to exterminate Rattus rattus from some Hebridean islands (off of...
SE Arizona, 2011: Alan Dahl, a week & 16 species including Mexican Fox Squirrel and Antelope Jackrabbit. Double Dutch,...
I’ve just received a copy of Ralf Burglin’s book on watching and experiencing Europe’s bears, wolves and lynxes “Sie...
Genetically Welsh, spiritually Australian, currently in New York City. I've also lived and worked in London, Canberra, Paris and Lusaka, and visited over 100 countries. There's more here.
I was in Vienna for a couple days in March 1993, but had to spend most of that time in jail and didn’t see a single mammal (my cellmates were going through various kinds of withdrawals and apparently saw a lot of critters of all kinds). All I can say is that of all incarceration facilities I’ve been in (in 6 countries), the Austrian jail was by far the worse.
P.S. In case you are curious, I’ve always been arrested for the same kind of thing: geographical crimes (illegal border crossings, entering restricted areas, this sort of thing). In Austria they arrested me for being there without a visa when I was trying to LEAVE the country.
A nice web page about bats in Austria is
http://www.fledermausschutz.at/start.htm
From the Fledermaus tab, click on siehe Tabelle to get a table of bats in Austria.