Bering Sea expedition, 2015
Dear All, I am trying to help organize a wildlife-viewing expedition to St. Paul and St. Matthew Islands in the Bering Sea next June. St. Paul has the world’s largest fur sea
Evening bats & marsh rice rats
A couple of tips: 1. There is a colony of evening bats in one of the two bat houses in Samuel Houston Jones State Park near Lake Charles, Louisiana (the other bat house has Mexican
Davidson Seamount pelagic
Dear All, There will be a long-range pelagic trip to Davidson Seamount off Monterey on May 18: http://birding.aba.org/message.php?mesid=701238&MLID=CA01&MLNM=CA%20-%20Cal
Heteromyid Grand Slam, Southern California, September 2014.
Dear All, In September 2014, Fiona Reid and I will guide a mammal-watching tour to Southern California. We’ll try to see most of local 21(!) species of Heteromyids (kangaro
Pygmy jerboas
Nice photos of pygmy jerboas from Mongolia, by K. Mikhailov: http://konstmikh.livejournal.com/112520.html The text is in Russian, but you can use Google Translate to translate the
Spain, Portugal & Formentera
We are unexpectedly going to the Iberian Peninsula in June-July, hopefully for 4 weeks. Does anybody have any kind of identification manual for local voles? There are six Microtus
Panoche Valley
I went to Panoche Valley (in San Joaquin Valley, California) last night to look for kangaroo rats. I expected them to be rare because of the current drought, but it was just the op
Lake Tahoe, California
This year the accumulation of snow in the Sierra Nevada is the smallest in written history. Yesterday I went to Lake Tahoe, expecting weasels and snowshoe hares to be easy to find.
More on beaked whales
I just came across an interesting paper about acoustic detection of beaked whales in NE Pacific: http://iwc.int/cache/downloads/d7fplcuoyx448s4gks4wgw4og/SC-64-SM21.pdf There are
Ultra-long California pelagic trip, 2014
I am in contact with a Monterey-based whalewatching operator who is considering an overnight pelagic trip sometime next summer/fall. He needs more people to express interest before