Going Bats in Costa Rica
Many of you may have read Venkat’s and Alex’s trip report from their short but sweet visit to Costa Rica in early 2022: If you felt a certain twinge of envy that they saw 72 sp
Puerto Rico
I just came back from a very short family vacation to Puerto Rico. Since it was my third trip there, I summarized everything I know into a 2-page mammalwatching guide to the island
The best of mammalwatching
A new paper in African Journal of Ecology. Sounds like an unparalleled mammalwatching experience.
New Myotis
A new bat species from mountains of Panama, Costa Rica and Ecuador. Check your photos from the area 🙂
African bats news
A major review of East African Vespertilionid taxonomy just came out. A few new species are described, and many are moved between genera. I got the PDF from the authors in case any
Assorted news
A few news bits: 1. A review of Chiroderma bats. Compared to HBW/IUCN version, it considers vizottoi a subspecies of doriae, but splits scopaeum and gorgasi as full species. 2. How
New bentwing from SE Africa
A new species, Miniopterus wilsoni, has been described from Mozambique and Malawi. The most accessible place to see it appears to be Zomba Plateau, where it is the only Miniopterus
Recent Bat sightings in NY
Just wanted to report that I had a Big Brown and a Hoary Bat along Oil City Rd. at the Wallkill River N.W.R., Pine Island, NY and a Little Brown Myotis hanging on the side of the v
HMW 9
I finally finished going through the last volume of Handbook of Mammals of the World. It is the best one in the series: parts of the text look like they’ve actually been proofrea
Bat Weekend in Yucatan
Mérida, Yucatán, January 2020 from Charles Hood, hoodcw (at) gmail (dot) com I had some frequent flyer miles to spend and a few days off when I could work by email, so I did a