Coolest Mammal seen from your window/balcony?
So for the past several weeks I’ve had no time to go ‘sploring, since I had back-to-back tests in Analytical Functions 2, and other similarly pleasant-sounding courses
Backlog of trip reports
Dear all Just an apology that I haven’t been able to upload trip reports for the past couple of weeks and won’t be able to upload them til I get home from Australia in
Mammal Big Day
Tim and I decided to try for a mammal big day this weekend in Belgium. We were less successful than we hoped and would have liked but we did manage some very nice sightings, includ
Uinta & Wyoming Ground Squirrels
I find these 2 species very difficult to distinguish. The ground squirrel above was photographed at Fossil Butte National Monument. It appeared “buffier” than the Uinta
Pygmy Rabbits
Despite spending a lot of time in sagebrush country, I had never seen a pygmy rabbit. Mammal watcher Dave Robichaud, who found me through this site, stopped in Idaho recently to se
Canid in Harenna forest (Ethiopia)
Recently, during a trip to Ethiopia, we saw a group of two animals, exactly like the animal observed by Cocke Smith in 2012. Was discussed the identity of the animal, some peopl
Ocelots & Nilgais
Two blogs I’ve written that may be of interest: Ocelots on the border – last stand for the spotted cat in Texas? Nilgai – how the Asian antelope came to thrive i
Arabian oryx in Israel
Hi all I’m considering a trip to Israel for the first two weeks of next April. One of my main targets would be Arabian oryx. From the report by Timo Marijnissen it seems the
Tibet trip list (Pallas’s Cat was highlight)
I was in China (Tibetan Plateau and environs) June 2014 with a UK bird tour. We did great on birds, okay on mammals — it just was NOT a mammal trip is the thing, so I missed
Spotted Bat Survey
A cool citizen science opportunity if anyone is going to be near Washington State next month: Monitor spotted bats.