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The Palearctic. Home to Hedgehogs and Hamsters, Ibexes and Ikea, good cheese, bad traffic, and crap weather.
Information - sometimes detailed, sometimes less so - on mammal watching in many European and the other Palearctic countries can be found in the pages linked to the right.
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.
China
Smith, A. T. and Xie, Y. (Eds) 2008. A guide to the Mammals of China. Princeton. This is the only guide to all the mammals of China. The illustrations and accounts seem excellent with enough information to identify just about any species encountered.
Egypt
Hoath, R. 2003. A Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt. American University in Cairo Press. The only time I've spent in Egypt I've been diving, but this field guide makes me want to go back to look for some of the surprisingly many - 100+ - mammals found there.
Europe
MacDonald, D. and Barret, P. 1993. Collins Field Guide: Mammals of Britain and Europe. Harper Collins Publishers. The best field guide I am aware of to all the mammals of Europe. Nice plates, good field information.
Japan
Hishashi Abe (Ed) 2005. A Guide to the Mammals of Japan. Tokai University Press. Is the best guide I have seen for Japan that is partly in English. Includes a page for every species with photos, measurements and other information. It also includes several newly described bats.
Libya
Hufnagl, E. 1972. Libyan Mammals. The Oleander Press, Cambridge. I've never been to Libya, but reckon this field guide would be pretty useful if I did. There are some neat mammals there.
The UK
Moores, Richard, 2007. Where to Watch Mammals in Britain and Ireland. A&C Black, London. If every country had a book like this then the world would be a better place! The book includes information on 200 or so of the best places in the UK and Ireland to watch mammals and cross references these against every mammal species known to occur. It also includes list of various mammal related organisations in the UK.
resources - Websites
China
Mammals of Sichuan - an excellent resource covering all of Sichuan's mammals from the Burke Museum, University of Washington.
Czech Republic
Illustrated checklists of mammals for the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bohemia and Moravia.
France
Government atlas of rare species, with maps on important sites for each species (in French).
Mammal list for L'Indre (La Brenne and surrounds in central France)
Pyrenees National Park.
Egypt
A nice key for identifying Egypt's bats is here.
Europe
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 nice guide to cetacean spotting in Europe is here.
Jordan
A checklist of the mammals of Jordan
The United Arab Emirates
THe Arabian Wildlife Journal site has some information on places to look for mammals in the UAE.
UK
The People's Trust for Endangered Species run trips to see various wildlife in the UK (eg., helping with mammal trapping and bat work) and overseas.
THe UAE interact site has information on most of the terrestrial mammal species found there.
The Yemen
This Arabian Wildlife Journal site has some information on places to look for mammals in the Yemen.
A historical biogeography of Yemeni mammals.
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