The Christmas Island pipistrelle looks set to be the latest in Australia’s long line of mammalian extinctions … please write to the Environment Minister (details below) to help keep up the pressure.
Jon
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With out intervention, the Christmas Island Pipistrelle will become extinct very soon. Parks Australia and Minister Garrett have been aware of this for several [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Australian Bat Society trying to save the Christmas Island Pipistrelle
June 27, 2009Wild Cat Photo from Bulgaria
June 27, 2009Colin Bradshaw in the UK sent me this nice shot he took of a Wild Cat up a tree in Cape Kaliakra, Bulgaria April 2009.
Jon
Long-beaked Echidna Study in PNG
June 27, 2009Papua New Guinea has some of the most interesting mammals in the world but also some of the hardest to find. this guy was in the field for 500 hours before he saw his first Long-beaked Echidna!
Jon
Study On Papua New Guinea’s Long-beaked Echidna Reveals Elusive Habits (June 23, 2009) — A research intern working [...]
Little Pig, Little Pig….
June 27, 2009Giant pigs are on the move in Western Australia apparently. There is a photo here of one shot in the Pilbara up in the north of WA. Its a monster!
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,,25598231-2761,00.html
Jon
Polecat Pictures
June 15, 2009Here are a couple of pictures of the animal I saw yesterday
Jon
Polecats Still at Tring in the UK
June 14, 2009After two weeks of prevarication I finally jumped on the Eurostar from Paris to spend today in Tring, just north of London. For the past few weeks a family of Polecats have been seen regularly at the College Lake Nature Reserve – 1.5 mile walk from Tring Railway station along the canal (just by the village [...]
New Trips Reports: Mulu (Borneo) and Iran
June 8, 2009I just added two new reports
Rohan Clarke’s brief reccy to Mulu in Sarawak, where he saw a Tarsier among other things
http://www.mammalwatching.com/Oriental/orientborneo.html
and
Erik Foekens report from Iran where he saw Onagers and Striped Hyenas among other stuff
http://www.mammalwatching.com/Palearctic/palearctiran.html
cheers
Jon
Batting in the South of France
June 3, 2009I spent last weekend around Toulon on the mediterranean coast of France, chasing bats with Jean-Michel Bompar. He managed to find 10 species of bats for me – 6 of them lifers including European Free-tailed, Bechstein’s, Grey Long-eared and Lesser Mouse-eared. A great weekend… and a report is at the top of my French page.
http://mammalwatching.com/Palearctic/palearctfrance.html
Jon
Polecats in Tring
June 2, 2009If, like me you have never seen a Polecat, and if, unlike me, you are in the UK , then you might want to head to Tring Reservoir where a family of Polecats are being seen every day near a birding hide.
http://birdingtringreservoirs.blogspot.com/
Jon
