China for Snow Leopards, Red Pandas and possibly Giant Pandas – late February/early March 2025
Hi all, I’ve planned out a trip to Sichuan and Qinghai provinces in China to look for snow leopards, red pandas, golden snub-nosed monkey and with some luck – giant pan
ID request: Geoffroy’s Cat in Argentina?
Last weekend I was birding (I know, I apologise…) in Entre Ríos province in Argentina near a town called Perdices in some grassland and marsh area. To my surprise, this blac
The Weekly Recap
Hello and welcome back to the weekly recap! The first trip report of the week is from Hobart, Tasmania by Michael Sebastian back in July, a short trip during which he saw Southern
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Fed up with brief sightings that don’t give you much of a sense of the animal? Tired of sifting through blurry photos trying to guess if it was a rare species you were dreami
Weasel in Ecuadorean Andes
In July of 2024 I drove up to the antenna fields on the Papallacta Pass in the Andes of Ecuador. On the way down, at an altitude of about 13000 feet (4000 meters) I stopped the c
New Podcast Episode: Rodney Jackson talking Snow Leopards
In this month’s podcast episode we talk with Rodney Jackson the director of the Snow Leopard Conservancy, who is widely considered the leading world expert on the snow leopa
RFI: Victorian sites for Fat-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata
Hi all, My name is Michael Sebastian. I’m a PhD student at the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, studying wild Fat-tailed Dunnarts in Victoria. Unfortunately, t
Easy American Mink sightings in coastal South Carolina
Hi, this is my first post on Mammalwatching.com Day before yesterday I had another close encounter with a confiding American Mink (Neogale vison) – at Huntington Beach State
Book Review: Guide to the Terrestrial Mammals of Southern California and the Eastern and Southern Sierra Nevada, by Brad Blood
Brad R. Blood’s new Guide to the Terrestrial Mammals of Southern California and the Eastern and Southern Sierra Nevada just arrived and it is an excellent resource for those