A couple adjustments to my last post- including a newly added species from our Costa Rica trip as well as one more mammal for the year in Prospect Park, Brooklyn NY yesterday!
April was my first month without a new wild mammal unless I count witnessing the birth of my 1st child. Some of my mammalwatching friends have joked that witnessing your own child's birth is the one way to be able to count wild
Homo sapiens on your lifelist. After that moment we become domesticated.
24. Proboscis Bat,
Rhynchonycteris naso (Mar 19)
25. Honduran White Bat,
Ectophylla alba
26. Short-eared Bat, Cyttarops alecto
27. Mantled Howler,
Alouatta palliata
28. Greater Dog-like Bat,
Peropteryx kappleri
29. Greater Sac-winged Bat,
Saccopteryx bilineata
30. Chestnut Sac-winged Bat, Cormura brevirostris
31. Thomas's Shaggy Bat, Centronycteris centralis
32. Seba’s Short-tailed Bat,
Carollia perspicillata
33. Chestnut Short-tailed Bat,
Carollia castanea
34. Kinkajou,
Potos flavus
35. Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine,
Coendou mexicanus
36. Striped Yellow-eared Bat,
Vampyriscus nymphaea (Mar 20)
37. Pygmy Round-eared Bat, Lophostoma brasiliense
38. Central American Tent-making Bat,
Uroderma convexum
39. Thomas’s Fruit-eating Bat,
Dermanura watsoni
40. Thumbless Bat, Furipterus horrens
41. Commissaris's Long-tongued Bat, Glossophaga commissarisi
42. Common Big-eared Bat,
Micronycteris microtis
43. Variegated Squirrel,
Sciurus variegatoides
44. Honduran Yellow-shouldered Bat, Sturnira hondurensis
45. Toltec Fruit Bat, Dermanura tolteca
46. Lowland Paca,
Cuniculus paca
47. Talamancan Deer Mouse, Peromyscus nudipes
48. Cherrie's Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys cherrii ID CHANGE
49. Greater Fruit-eating Bat,
Artibeus lituratus
50. Nine-banded Armadillo,
Dasypus novemcinctus
51. Riparian Myotis, Myotis riparius (Mar 21)
52. Hoffmann’s Two-toed Sloth,
Choloepus hoffmanni
53. Alfaro’s Pygmy Squirrel,
Microsciurus alfari
54. Sowell’s Short-tailed Bat,
Carollia sowelli
55. Underwood’s Long-tongued Bat, Hylonycteris underwoodi
56. Greater Broad-nosed Bat, Platyrrhinus vittatus
57. Brazilian Brown Bat,
Eptesicus brasiliensis
58. Sumichrast's Vesper Rat, Nyctomys sumichrasti (Mar 22)
59. Gray Sac-winged Bat, Balantiopteryx plicata
60. Lesser Sac-winged Bat,
Saccopteryx leptura
61. Fringe Lipped Bat,
Trachops cirrhosus
62. Merriam's Long-tongued Bat, Glossophaga mutica NEW
63. Pale-spear Nosed Bat, Phyllostomus discolor
64. Northern Ghost Bat, Diclidurus albus
65. Panamanian White-throated Capuchin,
Cebus imitator
66. Central American Silky Anteater, Cyclopes dorsalis
67. Red-backed Squirrel Monkey,
Saimiri oerstedii
68. Greater Fishing Bat,
Noctilio leporinus
69. Short-tailed Cane Rat, Zygodontomys brevicauda
70. Greater Spear-nosed Bat,
Phyllostomus hastatus
71. Dark Four-eyed Opossum, Philander melanurus
72. Common Opossum,
Didelphis marsupialis
73. Costa Rican Pygmy Rice Rat, Oligoryzomys costaricensis
74. Orange Nectar Bat,
Lonchophylla robusta (Mar 22)
75. Mesoamerican Mustached Bat, Pteronotus mesoamericanus
76. Big Naked-backed Bat, Pteronotus gymnonotus
77. Spix’s Disc-winged Bat, Thyroptera tricolor
78. Pygmy Fruit-eating Bat, Dermanura phaeotis
79. Northern Yellow-shouldered Bat, Sturnira parvidens
80. Tome's Spiny Rat, Proechimys semispinosus
81. Central American Nectar Bat, Lonchophylla concava
82. Black Myotis,
Myotis nigricans (Mar 23)
83. Peter’s Disc-winged Bat, Thyroptera discifera
84. Northern Yellow Bat, Lasiurus intermedius NEW
85. Chiriqui Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys creper
86. Chiriqui Rice Rat, Nephelomys devius
87. Red-tailed Squirrel,
Sciurus granatensis (Mar 24)
88. Eastern Chipmunk,
Tamias striatus (May 2) NEW