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PostSubject: Florida summer 2008   Florida summer 2008 Icon_minitimeThu 15 Jan - 17:20
This is the pictures of my trip in south florida in this summer 2008.

Anolis sp (probably sagrei)
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Anolis sagrei sagrei
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Iguana iguana (reintroduct species)
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I starting my trip in the Everglades national parc and I follow the principal road to Flamingo. The pedestrial way is unpraticable because the mosquito are too much many and too much agressive. I have mainly to seek on the roads the night and the and of day with car. In the day the temperature are too hot and the day I profited to observe the birds, gators, mammals…and to locate the good places to seek snakes the night.
In summer it is not best the period for the snakes, the weather is too hot and for us there are too many mosquitos. But I prefer the mosquito and heat with the crowd of tourist in winter



Storms in Everglades Florida summer 2008 Everglades2ni2

Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti (the only subspecies present in Florida), Florida summer 2008 Agkistrodon2go1[/URL
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I think a young Nerodia fasciata Florida summer 2008 Nerodiafasciatapictivenxw1
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Regina aleni.
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This is the pond where I find Regina and Nerodia
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Apalone sp Probably ferox but i’m not specialist in amphibian and turtle
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Pseudemys floridana
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Bufo terrestris (not sure)
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The only croco I can see
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Elaphe obsoleta rossallenis.
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Gastrophryne carolinensis peninsularis
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Hyla cinerea
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The last snake I caught it’s Python molurus lol Florida summer 2008 Molurus1za3
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Aftr us to go up on the Northern part of Everglades in National big cypress Preserves. There were many roads (often very long) out of gravel and it’s stays really practical to quietly seek animals without being always to disturb by another car or of the walkers noisy.

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An other Regina aleni
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A wonderful young cottonmouth approx.60cm.
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Find on this road in the Night.
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Hyla squirella
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And for finish I give you some pictures of gators.

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Wait for fishing :-)
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Here approximatively our way.
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I hope you like and you understand me because my english it’s so bad
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PostSubject: Re: Florida summer 2008   Florida summer 2008 Icon_minitimeThu 15 Jan - 17:41
I always admire such field trip diaries. How do You folks find the snakes? I hardly ever saw a snake in wildlife. Well, not so many species here to see in Austria but ...
Great pictures!
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PostSubject: Re: Florida summer 2008   Florida summer 2008 Icon_minitimeThu 15 Jan - 17:49
I am left 3 weeks and over 3 weeks I made 5 days on field at approximately 15 hours of research per day. I could not make more because I was it low with my girlfriend.
I find that this n' is not much of snakes for the number of hours.Laughing
It is always the problem when one will make fieldherp for the first time in a country.
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PostSubject: Re: Florida summer 2008   Florida summer 2008 Icon_minitimeFri 16 Jan - 13:33
Good pictures of nice animals..

A good trip, by the look of it.
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PostSubject: Re: Florida summer 2008   Florida summer 2008 Icon_minitimeFri 16 Jan - 15:52
Belles rencontres et belles photos!
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PostSubject: Re: Florida summer 2008   Florida summer 2008 Icon_minitimeFri 16 Jan - 15:53
Good pictures!
The Regina are good findings. I only got 2 in 4 month, but find many to lots of all other snakes of central and southern Florida.
Your Pseudemys floridana seems to be a Pseudemys nelsoni. I cant see the notch in the upper jaw, typical for floridana peninsularis. On a pic, you may see the head more from front it would be very easy.
Yes its Nerodia fasciata.
Your first anole ia a female sagrei.
I´m not shure for rossaleni. It looks like a yellow rat snake (now Pantherophis (alleghaniensis) quadrivittata. In rossaleni the stripes are not so wide. But there is a large hybrid zone between these two ssp.
Bufo terrestris is now Anaxyrus terrestris

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PostSubject: Re: Florida summer 2008   Florida summer 2008 Icon_minitimeFri 16 Jan - 16:03
I saw an interesting documentation on Austrian TV yesterday.
In the everglades seem to live a lot of Python Molurus, escaped from private keepers or simply dumped because they got to large.
The catched two, marked them and set them free 60km from their habit. After a couple of days the snakes were back in the habit where they were catched. Impressing!
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PostSubject: Re: Florida summer 2008   Florida summer 2008 Icon_minitimeFri 16 Jan - 16:13
Thanks you Mario for your precisions.
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PostSubject: Re: Florida summer 2008   Florida summer 2008 Icon_minitimeFri 16 Jan - 17:31
The Pythons are not the only "introduced" species in southern Florida.
Established populations now have too (not complete, just what I have in mind now):

Anolis sagrei (long ago). But this anole is banashing the only native anole, Anolis caroliensis.
Anolis equestris
Osteopilus septemtrionalis (Cuban tree frog)
Basiliscus basiliscus
Basiliscus vittatus
Iguana iguana
Leiocephalus carinatus (Curly-tailed lizard)
Gekko gekko
Hemidactylus garnoti
In the early seventies of the last century Egyptian cobras (Naja haje) escaped after a car accident and seemed to get established. Not sure if they still exist.

Others are found in single specimens, like Python reticulatus, Caiman crocodylus, Bitis gabonica.

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PostSubject: Re: Florida summer 2008   Florida summer 2008 Icon_minitimeFri 16 Jan - 17:36
I Think this leiocephalus carinatus

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PostSubject: Re: Florida summer 2008   Florida summer 2008 Icon_minitimeFri 16 Jan - 17:42
Yes, it is!
Common now along the beach from Palm Beach to the south of Miami.
From where is yours?

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PostSubject: Re: Florida summer 2008   Florida summer 2008 Icon_minitimeFri 16 Jan - 17:47
palm beach near an aquatic park and I find the Iguana and anolisin the the keys (Big pine key). the molurus Find in south of of everglades.
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PostSubject: Re: Florida summer 2008   Florida summer 2008 Icon_minitimeFri 16 Jan - 17:54
See this link for a list of Florida herps - including the introduced species.
Especially in the lizards there are now more foreign species than natives!

Florida museum - herp checklist

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PostSubject: Re: Florida summer 2008   Florida summer 2008 Icon_minitimeTue 20 Jan - 0:03
Very nice shoots. Again I really like the field shoots. Nice cotten mouth photos.
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