New Trip Reports: The Maldives
Here are two new whale watching reports from Chas Anderson at the Whale and Dolphin Company. I would love to do one of these trips someday: I tried to get on the 2017 trip but was
New Trip Report: Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, 2018: Mark Hows, 12 days & 58 species including Rusty-spotted and Fishing Cats, Grey and Red Slender Loris and Bryde’s Whale. Jon
New Trip Report: Arizona
Here are some useful notes from Curtis Hart who spent 2-3 months in Arizona this year. Arizona, 2018: Curtis Hart, 2 months and 46 species including Mexican Vole, Cactus and Pinon
Latest Global Mammal Checklist now online
Hello I’ve just uploaded the latest iteration of my global mammal checklist. This incorporates changes made by the IUCN’s Redlist since I updated this last in Septembe
New Trip Report: Poland
A new report from John Wright, back on the trail of a Eurasian Lynx. South East Poland, 2018: John Wright, 6 days & 14 species including Wolf, Brown Bear and European Wildcat.
Safia Reserve and other places in Western Sahara/Morocco
It looks like I’ll have about a week in Morocco and Western Sahara in July. Has anyone been able to contact/visit Safia Reserve recently? How’s the road? They reportedl
Two squirrel books for North America and the World
You may or may not have heard of these two books on squirrels. I just got a used copy of both Squirrels of North America by Tamara Eder and Squirrels of the World by Richard Thor
Shrew Identification (Spain)
Last July, I photographed the following Shrew in my hotel room in Sallent de Gallego, Spain (1305 meters elevation, just across the border from Lac d’Ayous). Does anyone have
New Trip Report: Pyrenean Desman in France
Desmans are surely one of Europe’s coolest mammals, and yet two years ago it was extremely hard to know where reliably to look for them. Ben Schwienhart’s 2017 report c