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7 August 2025
Beaked WhaleGinkgo-toothed Beaked WhaleMesoplodon ginkgodensMexicoZiphiidae

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
Polar BearsSvalbard

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
Serval

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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11 June 2025

Suggestions: Upcoming Eastern US Trip

Hello, I am about to go on a “bio-blitz” road trip from Long Island, NY through southern NJ, Delaware, VA to the Smokies region and ending in coastal NC. The trip will

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9 June 2025

RFI: Glacier NP and Yellowstone North Entrance

Hi All, I’m going to a conference in Bozeman, MT next month, and I’m planning to spend a week looking for wildlife afterwards. Just how crowded are Glacier NP and the n

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12 December 2025
Trip Recommendations for April/May 2026

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  1. Jon Hall on Looking for info for planning a 11-day trip to Ethiopia (April 26)27 January 2026
  2. Chad Johnson on Winter in Labahe and Gouli26 January 2026
  3. Ian on Looking for info for planning a 11-day trip to Ethiopia (April 26)26 January 2026

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  1. Jon Hall on Looking for info for planning a 11-day trip to Ethiopia (April 26)27 January 2026

    With a good local ground agent you should be able to organise a permit for binoculars. It's quite ridiculous that…

  2. Chad Johnson on Winter in Labahe and Gouli26 January 2026

    That is great to hear. I will keep them in mind when I finally do my China trip. By the…

  3. Ian on Looking for info for planning a 11-day trip to Ethiopia (April 26)26 January 2026

    My wife and I went to Ethiopia in 2019 so more stable times. We specifically wanted to see Ethiopian wolves…

  4. Yonathan Perez on Panama 2025-202626 January 2026

    Good to know that the tamarins are almost always around the feeders!

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24 January 2026
Winter in Labahe and Gouli
23 January 2026
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21 January 2026
Brief visits to Java, Flores and Komodo, Indonesia

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