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Place Category: EcozonesPlace Tags: Palearctic
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The Palearctic (Europe and northern Asia) Ecozone
The Palearctic. Home to Hedgehogs and Hamsters, Ibexes and Ikea, good cheese, bad traffic, and crap weather.
The Palearctic Ecozone covers a slab of land north of the Sahara and the Himalayas, stretching from the UK in the west through to Siberia and Japan in the east. It includes all of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, and Central, Western and Eastern Asia.
Information – sometimes detailed, sometimes less so – on mammal watching in many areas is included on this site. Country (or State and Territory) pages include lists of resources specific to them. Some more general resources are listed below.
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Bulgaria
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Georgia (Europe)
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Mongolia
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Japan
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Turkmenistan
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Austria
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Madeira
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Egypt
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France
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Finland
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Czech Republic
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Cyprus
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Croatia
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Bosnia & Herzegovina
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Belgium
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Azerbaijan
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Armenia
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Algeria
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Afghanistan
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Hungary
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Iran
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China
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Morocco
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Poland
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Russia
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Serbia
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The Azores
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Syria
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United Kingdom
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Resources – Books
Arabian Gulf
Harrison, D. 1981. Mammals of Arabian Gulf. George Allen & Unwin, London. A nice little field guide to the mammals of countries, or bits thereof, surrounding the Arabian Gulf.
Europe
Aulagnier, Haffner, Mitchell-Jones, Mouton & Zima. 2009. Mammals of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The best guide to the mammals of Europe I am aware of, and also to the mammals of North Africa and the Middle East.
Dietz, C., von Helversen, O. and Nill, D. 2009. Bats of Britain, Europe and Northwest Africa. A& C Black, London. Far and away the best guide to bats in the region. All species covered in detail with fabulous photographs, plus a key at the start. Too big for the field but one to have at home.
MacDonald, D. and Barret, P. 1993. Collins Field Guide: Mammals of Britain and Europe. Harper Collins Publishers. Somewhat out of date now but nice plates, good field information.
Mitchell-Jones, A.J. et al. 1999. The Atlas of European Mammals. Poyser Natural History. Not a field guide, but has very good range information on every European species.
Resources – Websites
Europe
You can join the European Mammal Watching Group on Facebook.
The European Mammal Assessment is an IUCN coordinated effort to assess the conservation status of Europe’s mammals. It has a good deal of information on range, status, etc.
A very nice key for identifying Europe’s Bats is here. And the extra material for identifying some species below genus level is here.
This guide to identifying the shrews of the Benelux countries is useful (its in French).
A decent guide to cetacean spotting in Europe is here.