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MISCELLANEOUS
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Incidental Herps
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Click on any photo to see a larger version Some herps I’ve found when not herping
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While visiting friends in upstate in New York.
A common herp of the northeast --- don’t care how common they are, I
still think they’re stunning.
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Red
Eft
(terrestrial
stage of the Red-spotted Newt)
Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens
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While on another visit to the same place. My daughter grabbed this frog, flipped a
board and came up with a handful of snakes, and I lifted a stone to reveal
two more.
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Photo by Shoshanna Grunwald
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Bullfrog
Rana
catesbeiana
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Eastern Garter Snake (1) and Redbelly
Snakes (3)
Thamnophis s. sirtalis and Storeria o. occipitomaculata
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Northern
Ringneck Snake
Diadophis punctatus edwardsii
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While camping with my brother’s family in
eastern North Carolina. These little guys were scurrying near our
tents:
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Six-lined Racerunner
Cnemidophorus
sexliniatus
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Eastern Five-lined Skink
Eumeces fasciatus
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Southern Toad
Bufo terristris
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While hiking a forest trail with my family along the coast of Oregon. On a cool but sunny day in October, this
snake unexpectedly darted across our path.
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Red-spotted
Garter Snake
Thamnophis
sirtalis concinnus
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While
walking along a river in Yosemite. This Garter Snake was basking on its
waterfront balcony.
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Sierra
Garter Snake
Thamnophis couchii
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While
driving cross-country with my son. In South Dakota I spotted
my first Bull Snake by the side of a road bordering a farm field.
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Photo by Ilan Grunwald
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Bull
Snake
Pituophis
catenifer sayi
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While
walking with my son through a local nature preserve. On a cold day in early spring we
unexectedly found this Ribbon Snake, my first New Jersey snake of the season.
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Eastern
Ribbon Snake
Thamnophis s. sauritis
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While
having lunch in Everglades
National Park. For twenty years our family has made a
picnic in the park every December, sitting in virtually the same place,
watching alligators (the same ones?) glide by.
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American
Alligator
Alligator
mississippiensis
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