This site hosts data from my wildlife travels that are focused on mammal watching and photography (over 1150 mammal species seen).
Recent trips are listed below with links to completed reports and posts.
Contact:      paulcarter @ pacapix.com
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RECENT TRIPS AND REPORTS
Some posts and other recent data can also be accessed through the Country pages, for example the Panama page includes a country list of mammal records as well as links to regional posts (Gamboa and Boquete).

2024 – PLANNED

  • North Thailand (Feb)
  • Australia – New Zealand (Jan)

2023 – DONE

  • Australia (Dec)
  • Nepal (Oct-Nov)
  • Thailand (August-October + Nov) – saw Sunda Pangolin on Phuket.
  • Peru (June) – site reports in progress; Streaked Dwarf Porcupine (Coendou ichillus) photographed.
  • Bolivia (May-June) – in part with SC.
  • Paraguay (May) – with SC.
  • Thailand (March, April).
  • USA (Jan-Feb).

2022 – DONE

  • USA (California) – Dec.
  • South Africa – Nov/Dec.
  • South Africa (Nov) – dead Humpback Whale (False Bay).
  • West and North Thailand (Nov) – with ID, DS.
  • Nepal (Oct) – Chitwan NP, Bardia NP, Pokhara, Langtang NP.
  • West Malaysia (Aug)*
  • Thailand – Phuket (Apr-Sep)
  • USA (Mar-Apr) – California to Texas road-trip for mammals and Austin MotoGP.
  • Panama (6-20 Feb 2022)*: 36 mammal species seen including Alston’s Woolly Mouse Opossum; site reports on the Boquete and Gamboa areas.
  • USA (Jan-Feb)

2021

  • Belize (3-18 Dec 2021)*: +40 mammal species seen (including Hatt’s Vesper Rat and Baird’s Tapir). Reptiles included Creaser’s Mud Turtle (first record outside Mexico?).
  • USA (Sep-Nov 2021).
  • Thailand – Phuket (Apr-Sep 2021).
  • South Africa – Western Cape (Jan-Mar 2021, stuck here 5 months because of Covid pandemic):
    Dunedin Farm (Riverine Rabbit Retreat): updated my Dunedin Farm Mammal Guide (based on three visits (2016, 2018, 2021); species include Riverine Rabbit, Karoo Sengi and Large-eared Mouse.
    St Helena Bay
    – Dusky Dolphin.
    Wilderness (2019-2021); including Cape Dune Mole-rat, Brants’s Climbing Mouse, Woodland Thicket Rat.
    Bryde’s Whale in False Bay (report updated annually).

2020 

  • South Africa – Western Cape (Nov-Dec 2020):
    Strandfontein; Haviside’s Dolphin, Brants’s Whistling Rat.
    Bryde’s Whale in False Bay (report updated annually).
  • South Africa – Northern Cape (2020 Dec): Kgalagadi NP, Augrabies Falls NP.
  • England and Jersey (2020 Sep-Oct).
  • Scotland (Aug 2020) with NC.
  • Iceland (2020 Aug): mammal highlight was Artic Fox at Modrudalur.
  • USA – California (stuck here 6 months because of Covid pandemic); trips included Big Bear Lake, San Bernardino Mountains (2020 June) with CH.
  • South Africa – Western Cape (2020 Feb).
  • Thailand (2020 Jan).

2019

  • USA – Death Valley NP, Monterey (2019 Nov).
  • Mongolia (2019 Aug); trip organised by me; joined by KB, IT, SO, AP.
  • Japan – Honshu (2019 April); with VD + 1.
  • Costa Rica (2019 Mar-Apr)*.
  • South Africa – Western Cape (2019 Mar); Bryde’s Whale (report updated annually).
  • Laos (2019 Feb) with HF.

2018

  • Thailand – Peninsula and West (2018 Oct).
  • Australia – Darwin, Kakadu NP (2018 Sep).
  • Gabon (2018 Aug); group trip (Jon Hall and others).
  • Thailand – South (2018 June).
  • USA – California and Arizona (2018 Apr-May).
  • Ethiopia (2018 Mar-Apr).
  • South Africa – Cedarberg, Karoo (2018 Mar).

2017

  • Western Australia (2017 Nov)*.
  • Thailand – Peninsula (2017 Sep-Oct).
  • England (2017 Aug)*: mammals, a wedding and Silverstone MotoGP.
  • Jersey, Channel Islands (2017 Aug)*.
  • Czech Republic (2017 Aug)*: mammals and Brno MotoGP.
  • Hungary (2017 July)*.
  • USA – California (2017 April-July).
  • Brazil Amazon (2017 June); group trip led by Fiona Reid.
  • Thailand – Baan Maka (2017 Mar).
  • Thailand – Kanchanaburi area (2017 Mar) with ID, DS.
  • Flores, Indonesia (2017 Feb)*.
  • Bali, Indonesia (2017 Feb). See post on Bali Mammal records (posted 2022)*, Dugong report (posted 2022) and Geoffroy’s Rousette post.

Trip Companions: CH – Charles Hood, DS – Dave Sargeant, HF – Holly Faithfull, ID – Ian Dugdale, IT – Ian Thompson, JG – Jose Gabriel, JH – Jon Hall, KB – Kevin Bryan, NC – Nick Cox, PT – Phil Telfer, SC – Stuart Chapman, SO – Sjef Ollers, VD – Vladimir Dinets.
* Trips with Chi Phan.

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