Wild and Rugged Highland County
Highland County rests on the eastern escarpment of the Allegheny Plateau in the western corner of Virginia. Highland is one of the most beautiful places in the east, but it is a we
ID of common dolphins
Hey all. In the 1990s Common Dolphin was split into long-beaked and short-beaked forms and counted as two different species. Currently they are lumped. According to Bernardo Alps (
Southwestern Research Station in Portal AZ
Hi, I’m trying to book a cabin at Cave Creek Ranch for this coming April but it is currently full. I wonder if the Southeastern Research Station is a good alternative in term
New Trip Report: Great Squirrel Safari, USA, 2022
And a second report from Coke Smith, of a mammoth 12,000 mile road trip across 14 states. His daughter almost certainly now holds the world mammal list record among pre-schoolers.
Trip Report for South Dakota
I took a weeklong trip to the Badlands in mid-October after gaining advice from forum members that this is a good mammal watching location. I was not disappointed and the trip surp
New Trip Report: Vancouver Island
A great report from Jeff Higdon. Vancouver Island & a bit of mainland BC, 2022: Jeff Higdon, 1 week & 21 species including Townsend’s Vole, Grizzly Bear & (a dead
second-hand report of Western Spotted Skunk
Santa Cruz Island is one of the Channel Islands reached by boat from Ventura, famous for the endemic fox and jay. Often one gets common dolphin on the crossing. In the 1990s, spott
RFI: Western US mid-October
I find myself with a week off mid-October. I am trying to get my gf some days off so we can go somewhere. I’ve seen many of the eastern species so I am thinking going west ma
Baird’s Beaked Whale in California (not chaseable)
If one premise of this site is that all mammal species can be seen somewhere — once we figure out where that “somewhere” is — then I wanted to pass on infor
Recent Finds in MA (Summer 2022)
I haven’t been able to get out nearly as much as I’d like, but I’ve been happy with what I saw while I was out. I go hiking in Central and Western MA. There is a