Bat distribution maps
There is a pretty cool Google Earth app that shows range maps for the bats of the world here: http://gis.miiz.waw.pl/webapps/thebats/iucn/default.aspx?bheight=849&ie=true I ha
Request for mammal photo
The following just showed up on a bat listserve, seemed like a natural to post it here. I’m not entirely sure what would capture the pheromone theme. Dr Tristram Wyatt Depart
Bat Blitz 2012
The SBDN has announced the 2012 blitz. May 20-24 at Apalachicola National Forest and vicinity, Florida Panhandle. A pretrip to see an emergence of Southeastern Myotis would be high
BCI Bat Workshops 2012
BCI has posted their schedule for next year at http://www.batcon.org/pdfs/workshops/Flyer_NSBRWkshops_12.pdf There are trip reports from previous workshops at http://www.batcon.org
Mammals of the world checklist
There is an online checklist available for personal use at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ It is a comma delimited list, Excel had no problem with it on my machine. Includes subspeci
Lat/long converter, Google Earth link
I wanted to pass this online converter along. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to work with maps, and been very frustrated. I paid for a National Geographic topo program sever
North Carolina bat blitz update
All I finally got around to looking at the registration for this and they don’t require any experience with bats to be an official participant, so no schmoozing is required.
RFI Quito
I will have an afternoon and evening to kill in Quito next week. I was wondering if anyone knows of places near the city to look for mammals. Or of anyone who knows the small roden
Franklin’s Ground Squirrel
I put a brief trip report on my not-a-blog: http://wp.me/p12yCV-2R Comments are probably more useful here on Mammalwatching.com.
Bat workshop on Crete, 9/2011
This was posted on the SBDN listserve, thought it might be of interest. It sounds like a non-professional can participate, and a fairly spouse-friendly mammal trip. The reference t