A really great report from Venkat Sankar, who spent 10 days in Mexico last month and saw a lot of cool endemics most of which I have never heard of!
Mexico, 2016: 10 days & 42 species including Durango Chipmunk, Smoky Pocket Gopher, Southern Rock Mouse, Volcano Rabbit and Mexican Giant Shrew.
I spent the Labor Day weekend in New Mexico and Arizona mainly looking for chipmunks, ground squirrels and other...
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This is a touching 8 minutes of film http://www.koreus.com/video/sauvetage-baleine-filet.html Jon
This is interesting (and sad) http://focusingonwildlife.com/news/mysterious-moose-die-offs-baffle-scientists-and-wildlife-officials/ Jon
Venkat Sankar is now on the east coast of the USA. Though he is finding New England’s mammal watching...
I’ve lived in Idaho 8 years without seeing a mountain lion. This week, my colleague had one in her backyard,...
If you want to see a number of ground squirrel species in the West, you really have to come...
Genetically Welsh, spiritually Australian, currently in New York City. I've lived and worked in London, Canberra, Paris and Lusaka, and visited about 100 countries.
Exploratory trips are always like that: all you remember afterwards is endless driving 🙂
True, but the amount of cool stuff you find is still very much worth it…
In my experience, the best trip is usually the second one. Unless the first time you have a lot of time and can explore each location for as long as you want, but that rarely happens.