Mammal watching in North Carolina
Hey folks Last May I hit up North Carolina for birding and Salamandering, but also saw a few interesting mammals, particulary pelagic species I had two trips with Patteson Pelagics
Trout & Voles
A pretty wild photo (by volunteer Ralph Stewart) from The Nature Conservancy’s Silver Creek Preserve. A few fish were killed during research there this summer to determine
Alaska Marmot trip
Hi all I will be in Alaska 8/11-8/19. My plan is to focus on Alaska Marmot and see as many other mammals as I can along the way, with a boat trip out of Seward if possible. As far
Utah Prarie Dogs and the Channel Islands RFI and some news from the Asia-Pacific
A few people have sent me some trip reports over the last couple of weeks and I am sorry not to have uploaded them but I’ve been travelling through Malaysia, Indonesia and no
Ground Squirrels
If you want to see a number of ground squirrel species in the West, you really have to come in the spring. About this time each year, they start to disappear again, back undergroun
New Trip Report: British Columbia
Coke Smith sent me a great report from Knight’s Inlet, Johnstone Strait and Vancouver Island a few weeks ago. He saw 13 species including Vancouver Island Marmots (which I th
White nose Syndrome hits another US species
The latest news from Bat Conservation International…. Bat Conservation International learned this week that the fungus linked to White-nose Syndrome, which has killed more th
White-phase Black Bears
This is a link to an interesting slide show on the white-color-phase black bears that roam the Canadian temperate rainforest of British Columbia. Also called “spirit bears
Grey Whale off Israel…?!
I’m still not convinced I believe this but apparently the animal was “positively identified”. Thanks to Steve Anyon-Smith for the link Jon
New Trip Report – Western USA
I was in the US from 19 – 25 April, on the way back from Australia to France. I was with my kids, so it wasn’t a full on mammal fest, but I did manage to see a few new