California State Bat
California has various “state” emblems, so that the quail is the state bird and the poppy is the state flower, and so on. The Sabertooth Cat (Smilodon fatalis) is the s
Book Review — Nocturnalia: Nature in the Western Night
Mammalwatching.com’s very own Charles Hood and Jose Gabriel Martinez-Fonseca have just published a new book to encourage people to get out after dark and enjoy nature.
Guide to Kangaroo Rats and Mice of California
Last winter, I made an ArcGIS Storymap of the most likely places to find multiple species of kangaroo rats and mice in California. The data I used came from trip reports posted to
The Bahamas, 2021
A brief report from a non-mammal focused trip to the Bahamas a few years ago that turned up a couple species of interesting Bat. Seeing as how there was a recent RFI from someone v
Chiricahuas, September 2023 (Venkat Sankar)
Hi all, Sharing a report from a great (but rather sleep-deprived) long weekend the Chiricahua Mountains and Animas Valley in SE AZ and SW NM, respectively. We saw a lot more than I
Request for help to find bats near Nassau, Bahamas
Dear MammalWatchers, I will be in port in Nassau, the Bahamas, during 6 hours on the afternoon of November 1. I know that this is a short time, but I would like to try to see t
The jackal or the wolf in Algeria?
In Algeria there is a species of Canidae commonly called Dib or Ouchene in Kabyle. Its scientific name changed from Canis aureus to Canis anthus, then to Canis lupaster following v
A Long Weekend in the Bay Area, California – September 2023
Charles Hood and others spent August tormenting me – and possibly other seal lovers – with their posts of multiple Guadalupe Fur Seals in Monterey Bay. This is not an e
New Trip Report: California to Colorado via Washington (with an Aplodontia site)
Here’s an interesting report from Brian and Eileen Keelan, aka ‘The Nomadic Naturalists’ who are on a perpetual trip around the country – and the world R
