Home Country Guides: Books, links and trip reports whale and dolphin watchingFocus on Australia Mammal watching: Some tipsWorldwide Mammal Info: Books and links with a global coverage Mammal Watching Blog: Read and Subscribeme and my mammal watching

Regional Specific Links
For links to regional specific website please follow the links on the right to the regional home pages on this site. If you can recommend any good links please mail me.

General Mammal Links
Duff, A. and Lawson, A. 2004. Mammals of the World: A Checklist. A&C Black, London. This book is the most uptodate checklist of all the World's mammals that I am aware of. It includes information on the distribution of each and has a section that explains recent revisions in nomenclature.

The Journal of Mammalian Biology has some useful articles on species distribution and so on.

The WWF's Species Finder is an interactive tool that lets you find the range and details of any mammal species.

Uinversity of California, Berkeley's Hall of Mammals. Lots of information and pictures.

University of Michigan's Animal Diversity Web has a lot of scientific information, pictures etc, searchable by species.

The American National Museum of Natural History's Mammal Species of the World is a database/complete checklist of all species.

The American Society of Mammalogists has a quite comprehensive set of images of many different species (from inside and outside the Americas).

I usually buy my books on line. The most comprehensive range of mammal books I've come across is at the NHBS Environment Bookstore. In late 2007 they had almost 4000 mammal-related books, many of which I have never seen anywhere else (including books in Chinese, Russian etc). Other good stores include Andrew Isles in Australia (good for Australian stuff and they get some interesting second hand books as well from time to time) and Subbuteo Books in the UK are always helpful. Amazon.Com - the American site - has quite a lot of stuff too and because many books are cheaper in the USA it is often cheaper to order them from here and get them shipped, than buy them at home.

Add your mammal list total to the Surfbirds site.

Carnivores
The IUCN's Cat Specialist Group has a swag of information on the world's 36 feline species.

The Carnivore Conservation Organisation.

Bats
Jim Buzbee's Bat Box is an extraordinary website with hundreds of bat related links.

Bat Conservation International.

A very nice key for identifying Europe's Bats is here.

And another for Egypt's bats is here.

Whales and Dolphins
American Cetacean Society.

Whale Watching Web (lots of links).

Ungulates
The Ultimate Ungulate Page is a guide to the world's hoofed mammals.

Trip Reports
Don Roberson's trip reports have quite a lot of details about mammals he has seen.

Surfbirds is obviously focussed on birds but has lots of trip reports linked to it, some of which have information on mammals.

The Fat Birder is, again, bird focussed but lots of useful information on countries, wildlife guides, and trip reports, some with good mammal info.

Susan Myer's website has some good trip reports with details on birds and mammals, mainly around Australasia and the Orient.

Tour Companies
I have never taken a group trip to go mammal watching. The advantages of taking a group tour are that you get experts to do the local research for you and arrange all the details (though I quite like that part), plus there are economies of scale so it is often cheaper. The disadvantages are that you might get stuck with people who irritate the hell out of you, plus mammal watching is usually much more successful when done quietly which goes against being a part of a group.

There are a few operators who run mammal focussed trips and I include links to those who I have corresponded with over the years and who have helped me, run interesting trips and know what they are doing (or certainly seem to). I have no commercial interest in them.

Details on local guides etc for specific countries are included on the country pages on this site.

Indri Tours (South Africa)

Naturetrek (UK)

Silver Safaris (South Africa)

Wildwings (UK)

Afrotropical links Australasian links Nearctic links neotropical links Oriental links Palearctic LinksCarnivore Links chiroptera Links Cetacea Links Ungulate Links Trip reports Tour Operators