New Guinea, 2025 & 26
This report covers the various places I visited throughout New Guinea in 2025 and 2026. Tree-kangaroos were my main target, but I was also looking for echidnas, possums and other s
India – The Next Chapter
A slightly revised version of a recently-posted trip report. Thank you to Rohit Chakravarty for correcting two previous bat mis-identifications.
Sri Lanka, April 2026
A brief, but successful, trip in search of Indian Pangolin, Rusty-spotted Cat, Fishing Cat, Jungle Cat, and lots more. 40/41 species in 5 days, including 24 lifers.
Wild Siberut: Eleven Days, Four Primates, Seventy-Two Birds
With a ‘clean sweep’ of all four Siberut primates, my 11 days journey with Heru Fitriyadi to Siberut Island, Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, is so astonishing. Joja the Siberut
Costa Rica
Visiting Costa Rica has been high on my wish list since early childhood. After being diagnosed with cancer mid last year I decided it was time to make the long thought about trip a
Tomer’s Colombia Trip Report – January 2026
Hello everyone! I’m excited to finally be able to post my trip report from Colombia! As always, I write way too much, and try to include as many of my sub-par relevant photos
“Amazing Azores: The Sequel”, or “In the wake of the Giants”
Please enjoy this trip report, in which me (Seva Rudyi) and Kristin Van Gaever went back to the Azores in March-April 2026 to try and see migrating baleen whales. The trip exceeded
Is Siberian Flying Squirrel real?
… is the top suggestion by Google for additional questions to ask when looking for info about the species. At first I didn’t understand where that came from. Now I do. From