New Book Review: A Field Guide to the Mammals of Ecuador
Diego Tirira’s guide to Ecuadorean mammals has been available in Spanish and online for a while, but an English version was published a few months ago. It is a photographic f
New Report: La Selva Station, Costa Rica
Here’s a report from Matt Miller who was lucky enough to attend a meeting at La Selva Biological Monitoring Station in Costa Rica this month. And even though he was working
Rapid assessment of bat diversity in Laguna del Tigre National Park, Guatemala
Thanks to Richard Webb for sending me this paper on the bats of Laguna del Tigre NP. Researcher identified 25 species of bats in 8 days. A useful reference for anyone visiting the
New Trip Report: The Yucatan
Here’s a great report from Venkat Sankar, who was just back in Mexico with Juan Cruzado Cortes. Yucatan, 2018: Venkat Sankar, 5 nights & 41 species including Hairy-legge
New Trip Report: Long Weekend in Oaxaca
One of mammalwatching.com’s great mysteries is the lack of trip reports from Mexico. As of March 2018 there are fewer than 20 reports from a country with over 300 species of m
Significant range expansion for Silvery Woolly Monkey?
During a birding visit to Peru in August 2015, I observed several monkey species in Manu National Park. Among these were several sightings of Woolly Monkeys. Several parties were s
A Tale of Two Tamarins … and a Marmoset
In February 2017 I was sitting in a Brooklyn bar having a beer with my buddy Luqman and meeting for the first time his friend Gilbert who was visiting from Brazil. Before we̵
Help: Chiriqui highland mouse and squirrel
Hi all, a couple of question marks from a stay at a cabin (#8) at Los Quetzales Lodge, Guadeloupe, Chiriqui, western Panama in February this year. The first is a mouse that was see