New Trip Report: Argentina and Southern Chile
If like me you are going stir crazy from not just a lack of travel, but a lack of even being able to plan travel, then this superb report might do more harm than good. Sorry! But i
Rare Andean Mammals Tour – Trip Report – Royle Safaris – November 2019
In November 2019 Royle Safaris ran our first Rare Andean Mammals Tour to Ecuador, focusing on Bellavista and Cayambe Coca National Park for 10 days. We found evidence of a 20 speci
New Trip Report: Bellavista and Coco Cayembe, Ecuador
A new report from Rauno Väisänen: interesting to read that Olinguitos were scarce at Bellavista. I hope this is just a temporary move by the animals to social distance! Bella Vi
Book Review: Mammals of the Southern Cone (Lynx Illustrated Checklist)
What to do you do when you have just spent 10 years preparing the most ambitious and comprehensive set of books ever on the world’s mammals? Take a long holiday would be my s
Tabasco Batting
Back in those halcyon days, before the collective name for a group of caution was “an abundance’ and when “social distancing” might describe me during confe
NORTHERN ECUADOR NOVEMBER 2019
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Melanistic Oncilla in Panama – February 25, 2020
Last February 25 (2020) I saw and photographed what I believe is a melanistic Oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus), in Volcán Barú National Park in west Panama, at 2,250 meters altitude.
Costa Rica 2010 Trip Report
I first bought a guide book for Costa Rica in 1996, but for various reasons that I cannot remember, though which probably had something to do with my ex-wife’s belief that th
South and Central Colombia, 2020
With Cheryl Antonucci, Becky Henshaw, Jon Hall, Martin Royle, Hari Sankar, Venkat Sankar and Ian Thompson. Plus Rob Smith and Claudia Diaz from Wild About Colombia. When I first vi
Anyone want to join us for a long weekend bat blitz in Costa Rica?
If you read my short report yesterday about Sylvan in Costa Rica you might understand why I am in a rush to get back! In short Fiona Reid has run several bioblitzes there in recent