The Weekly Recap
Hello and welcome back to the weekly recap!
Don’t forget that voting for the NUTTER awards closes in a few days (February 22). And also don’t forget to suggest the category “Butt of most jokes” for next year’s awards, so that my dad, too, finally has a chance of winning something…
This week we are starting off with Greg Easton’s report from Sierra de Andujar, Spain, combining two trips – one from 2023, and one from this month. It includes the Lesser Horseshoe Bat, Iberian Ibex, some gorgeous pictures of Iberian Lynx and a random run-in with a birder-turned-mammalwatcher! So mission successful all around.
Next is Venkat Sankar’s pre-Christmas family trip to Costa Rica. He claims it wasn’t “hardcore”, but considering he saw 61 species in 8 days, I must beg to differ… He seems to have a similar definition of family trip to my dad. Some highlights include Zeledon’s Mouse Opossum, Spectral Bat, Goldman’s Water Mouse and White-winged Vampire Bat.
This report from Royle Safaris is from a very successful Pygmy Hippo expedition last year and even includes a very cute picture of one. Some other species seen were Water Chevrotain; Bosman’s Potto and Long-footed Swamp Rat.
Morten Kattenhøj has shared a report from a trip to Daugbjerg Kalkgruber, Denmark with Mogens Trolle where they got 4 species of bats: Pond Bat, Daubenton’s Bat, Natterer’s Bat and Brandt’s Bat.
And the final report was my dad’s from Sulawesi, a trip organised by Carlos Bocos. This was an epic mammal expedition with other website celebrities like Charles Foley, rarities like Pygmy Tarsier and Togean Babirusa, and several species which appear to be new to science! I must say I was very offended when my dad wouldn’t name one the Peanut Tarsier or something after me, but at least he didn’t name one after his dog instead… Although I’m sure he tried. But it would seem the highlights of the trip (at least according to my dad’s texts) were daily visits to the 7-11, outside of which everyone would line up with their ice creams and binoculars every chance they could.
This post about Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario gives some useful information about mammals that can be found there, such as Little Brown Myotis and Hoary Bat as well as Southern Flying Squirrel and Coyotes.
Zac Babbit is travelling to Hawaii for the first time and would like some advice on where to find species like Hawaiian Hoary Bat, Hawaiian Monk Seal and Rough-toothed Dolphin. See the post for his full list and to help out 🙂
1StopBorneoWildlife are bringing back their renowned Plant4BorneoElephants project site. Before stopping their tours there in 2022 they were known as the best way to see Asian Elephants, with a 95% success rate, so it is very exciting that they are opening back up again!
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Thanks for reading:)
Katy
Cover photo: Iberian Lynx – Greg Easton
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