Spotting Spotted Skunks & Going for Gophers: Bay Area Trip Report
I returned to California last month for a brief visit and some targeted mammal watching around the Bay Area. Northern Fur Seals and Western Spotted Skunks were top of my hit list,
Travelling with Thermal scope
Hi, We have recently bought a Pulsar thermal scope and are very happy with it and are planning to travel with it abroad. Now I have heard rumors that someone has had it confiscated
Shameless Self-promotion
The Australian and Brit in me is far too shy to share this….. but I am channeling my inner New Yorker right now … so here’s a fun piece written by Matt Miller 
Scout thermal imagers
Has anybody used Scout thermal imagers? Are they as good as Pulsar Quantum? I have to buy one in Japan, but Pulsar Quantum imagers are no longer available there because all their n
Updated Global Mammal Checklist – June 2019
Yes, its the most wonderful time of year once again. My bike had an argument with a New York pot hole 2 weeks ago and I fractured three ribs. And that meant no weekend in North D
Asiatic Golden Cat colour morphs
This is an interesting summary of a paper written by some ZSL scientists on different colour morphs in Golden cats in India. They found no less than 6 very different colour types i
Article about the NE Atlantic bowheads
Super happy to have been a (small) part of the rediscovery of this relict population … https://www.int-res.com/articles/esr2019/39/n039p051.pdf
pilot whale split
Japanese zoologists have always known that there are two non-interbreeding species of short-finned pilot whales in Japan. Now there is molecular support for the split (the authors
Advertising: South Africa, September 2019, with WildWings
Mammal watching tour to South Africa. September 2019 Wildwings still have spaces available on this year’s South Africa mammal watching tour. Full details can be found at http://w
4th Mammal Watching Competition in Finland
Four years ago I invited Finnish mammal watchers to competition, to find out who gets most mammal species to their year list. 72 mammal watchers participated and the winner was M