Iceland trip report, June-July 2022
For a country with just one native land mammal and no endemic species, Iceland sure gets a lot of coverage on this website. So I wrote a very brief trip report: Iceland, 12 days an
Romania
I spent a week in Transylvania in March 2022 looking for Eurasian Lynx on a Sakertours trip. And I returned in 2025 for Sakertours's inaugural mole-rat safari,
Wolf map central Europe
Good morning everyone, I thought maybe everyone here would enjoy this map as well. It is the distribution of wolfs and wolf packs in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. https://w
Wolverine-Watching in Finland
Hi everyone, Here’s a very short report of my itch to see wolverines in Finland, end of Jul. 2021. Finland Tomer Cheers! Tomer
Microtrip Brno, Czechia – European Ground Squirrel
There is a good location to see European Ground Squirrel or European Souslik in Brno, second largest city in Czechia. The place is an airplane club on the outskirts of Brno: Aerokl
Microtrip Vienna – European Ground Squirrel and Field Hamster
I recently traveled through Vienna and saw European Ground Squirrel (souslik) and Field Hamsters. European Ground Squirrels were on suburban fields between the railway stations Zen
Mammals and people sharing the same land, South France
I have launched a web-series on the wildlife that live right around us, the species with whom we share our territories. The objective is to show that even near a big city (in this
Eurasian Lynx
I recently had a nice sighting of European Lynx near Basel, Switzerland. It showed itself for about an hour down to 5 meters. For a time, it was hooted at by two Tawny Owls. Unfort
Albania
I spent a couple of nights in Albania in April 2019 on a road trip with my daughter. I was not allowed to spend a lot of time looking for mammals – if you have met Katy you w
Good places to see…
Jon Asked me to re-post my last few posts from the old forum so that they don’t get lost in transition; here they are: A good place to see flightless scalytails (and the orig