Taiwan, March 2024
A trip report of a self-organized trip to Taiwan. Spend 3 weeks driving around the country. In total 12 species of mammal were seen, including Taiwan Serow, Taiwan Giant Flying Squirrel, Formosan Giant Flying Squirrel and Formosan Ferret-Badger.
As uploading myself didn’t work, Jon kindly provided me with the following link to the tripreport:
https://www.mammalwatching.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DEMOL_Taiwan_03_2024.pdf
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Evan
What a joy this was to read, as a part-time resident of Taiwan who used to live near National Chengchi University in Taipei! Your across-the-board enthusiasm for the country is going to make you the the life of the party anytime you come across a group of Taiwanese people in the future. 🤣
That’s quite the mammal haul from Fuyang Ecopark! I visited several times between about 2009 and 2018 largely for frogwatching (which it’s a known hotspot for – the plants along the side of the trails are also good for semi-arboreal species). While I did once get a good look at the ferret-badger, I never managed to spot a palm-civet there (though a friend did) or get as great a show as you did from the flying squirrels. Let’s hope it wasn’t just luck, and that it’s actually gotten even better than I remembered!
Also glad to hear you can just walk in now – for awhile the front gate would be closed for unclear reasons, and I would have to climb over it to get in. Eventually a light would flash towards me, and just as I thought I’d been caught trespassing, I would see it was a fellow frogwatcher or spider researcher (local Taiwanese all of them – this wasn’t me being a presumptuous outsider).
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Jon Hall
Great report and photos. Taiwan is great so I hope this inspires more visitors.