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 Somewhat out of date now but nice plates, good field information.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

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.