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6 September 2025

Question on ( Gray Fox) in Southern Florida

Hi everyone! We’re planning a family trip to the Everglades area in April 2026. On past national park trips, I’ve had great experiences staying at “wildlife-friendly” Airbn

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10 August 2025
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Colorado, 2025

A recent trip to Colorado to scout CU Boulder as a possible transfer option and to explore some of the state’s natural wonders. I nabbed a surprising number of mammal species

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7 August 2025
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New publication on Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens)

Hi all, I thought I’d share a link to a significant and exciting new paper. Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) is very poorly known, mostly from strandings.

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17 July 2025
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Polar bear sightings Svalbard-is it worth it?

Hi I’m thinking of making a trip to Svalbard to try and see some polar bears. I was wondering whether it is worth it with the new distances visitors now have to keep (500m).

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4 July 2025

Western USA Trip Report, June 2025

A spur-of-the-moment 11 000 kilometre drive around the western states in June 2025, in part guided by Venkat Sankar’s 2024 accidental California big year report.

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27 June 2025
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Serval (Leptailurus serval) data for Africa – update to IUCN conservation Status – sigthings needed

Dear MammalWatching Community, My name is Lourens Swanepoel, and I am based at the University of Venda in South Africa. Following correspondence with Jon Hall, he kindly suggested

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23 June 2025

alligator River NWR: Road closures?

I was thinking about visiting but it’s a long drive from my house (over 10 hours) and they seem to have a rather long list of closures mentioned https://www.fws.gov/story/202

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17 June 2025

Wood Buffalo National Park suggestions??

I may have a chance to drive through Wood Buffalo National Park in late July or early August.   It’s an enormous park, and while it has amazing potential, a lot of that see

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16 June 2025

Mammal watching suggestions for British Columbia

Hello all, I am planning a part time birding/mammal trip to British Columbia in July. We will visit Vancouver, The Okenagan valley, the Rockies including Banff and Lake Louise, the

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11 June 2025

ALASKA JUNE 2024: Nome, Seward, Kenai Fjords NP & Barrow

Mostly a birding trip report, but for those that don’t do birds 🙄 there are plenty of mammal photos and an annotated checklist of mammals towards the end of the report. Ma

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  1. Simon Steiner on Best possibilitiy for Snow Leopard sighting in Ladakh in octobre (and other mammals in Northern India)15 September 2025
  2. Jon Hall on Ideas for Pantanal and Amazon Rainforest on very low budget (and without a car)15 September 2025
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  1. Simon Steiner on Best possibilitiy for Snow Leopard sighting in Ladakh in octobre (and other mammals in Northern India)15 September 2025

    @Vana, Thanks a lot for your comments and isea’s. We will certainly go to Ulley and take our chances. In…

  2. Jon Hall on Ideas for Pantanal and Amazon Rainforest on very low budget (and without a car)15 September 2025

    Good to know. I’m in car in Sulawesi with Ian Thompson who was just telling me about Gil’s Safaris out…

  3. Evan on Ideas for Pantanal and Amazon Rainforest on very low budget (and without a car)14 September 2025

    Okay, I read your report (very helpful - thanks!) and got in touch with them. These days they're charging $100…

  4. Claudia W. on Georgia and Armenia, August 202514 September 2025

    Thanks, Flemming! Yes, hunting/poaching is unfortunately still an issue there. But at least in Vashlovani it has decreased since the…

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Ideas for Pantanal and Amazon Rainforest on very low budget (and without a car)
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Tips for trip to Sumatra
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A short trip to Panama
10 September 2025
Georgia and Armenia, August 2025

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