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February 12, 2024
02:31 PM CST
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August 9, 2020
01:05 PM MDT
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July 24, 2020
02:14 PM CDT
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September 30, 2020
08:17 PM EDT
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July 7, 2021
11:23 PM MDT
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August 18, 2022
09:45 PM UTC
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October 10, 2019
05:07 PM CEST
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May 16, 2022
08:06 AM EDT
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June 10, 2021
02:16 AM UTC
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June 30, 2023
11:39 AM EDT
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June 27, 2022
11:21 PM UTC
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March 6, 2024
02:08 AM UTC
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March 11, 2024
10:01 AM CET
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May 18, 2024
08:28 AM -04
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April 1, 2024
02:49 PM CEST
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September 14, 2023
02:58 PM PDT
Description
Was streched out in the road when I first saw it. Very nice purple gray individual.
Place
Missing Location
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November 20, 2023
03:11 PM IST
Place
Private
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October 5, 2022
08:03 PM EDT
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March 13, 2024
05:58 PM UTC
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April 10, 2024
03:15 PM EDT
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April 2, 2024
12:03 PM EDT
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April 26, 2024
03:02 PM UTC
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July 7, 2022
11:00 AM CEST
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March 6, 2020
12:13 AM PST
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November 15, 2023
07:20 PM -03
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January 17, 2024
03:19 PM PST
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January 21, 2024
05:56 PM UTC
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January 21, 2024
05:58 PM UTC
Description
Noticeable decline in CRAD random encounters at this location after 2017.
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January 21, 2024
06:00 PM UTC
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May 2, 2021
04:56 PM EDT
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March 11, 2022
08:47 PM EST
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July 27, 2021
06:45 PM PDT
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June 27, 2021
02:46 PM PDT
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January 3, 2021
05:19 PM PST
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September 12, 2020
04:44 PM +11
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August 5, 2019
12:32 AM EDT
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July 18, 2021
03:33 PM EDT
Place
Private
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March 27, 2022
09:19 PM UTC
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May 30, 2020
11:45 PM -03
Description
Animal lindo visto em novo airão com colorações bem marcantes.
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November 4, 2022
06:07 PM PDT
Description
beneath Ephedra, open dunes
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June 26, 2019
04:39 PM CDT
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September 14, 2023
02:58 PM PDT
Description
Was originally coiled up in the dirt road. Was released off the road.
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December 2, 2017
09:25 AM HST
Description
Very pretty juvenile ~ 14 inches. Temperatures barely over 70 degrees.
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July 7, 2022
11:00 AM CEST
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October 12, 2019
08:48 PM PDT
Description
tracks, resting sidewinder, previous resting spot
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September 13, 2021
11:07 PM EDT
Place
Private
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April 5, 2021
05:32 PM MDT
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March 24, 2023
01:28 PM EDT
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December 25, 2023
02:37 PM UTC
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September 13, 2022
07:01 PM UTC
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September 6, 2019
07:53 PM EDT
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July 29, 2020
11:32 PM -04
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October 22, 2023
04:23 PM UTC
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January 30, 2024
09:31 PM UTC
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February 29, 2024
09:12 AM EST
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February 24, 2024
03:24 PM PST
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April 6, 2023
01:44 AM PDT
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June 17, 2023
05:24 PM UTC
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June 30, 2023
01:30 AM UTC
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August 18, 2023
12:45 PM PDT
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June 5, 2023
04:16 PM PDT
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November 19, 2023
01:01 PM EST
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February 14, 2019
03:21 PM CST
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March 12, 2023
11:54 AM UTC
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January 29, 2024
10:01 PM CST
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June 19, 2023
10:38 PM -05
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June 19, 2023
10:37 PM -05
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May 10, 2021
07:51 AM -05
Description
This is an undescribed new species of Hapalotremus from southern Peru near the city of Cusco.. I will not give exact coordinates to prevent potential illegal trafficking of the species
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July 23, 2022
08:16 AM MST
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November 25, 2022
06:27 PM MST
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October 25, 2022
08:13 AM IDT
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May 26, 2023
01:33 PM MST
Description
Please note that this area is closed to the public. I did biological surveys as a refuge volunteer.
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December 15, 2023
12:13 AM PST
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May 27, 2023
06:48 PM HST
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June 4, 2023
07:35 AM CDT
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August 19, 2023
07:34 PM CDT
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June 19, 2023
04:46 PM PDT
Description
juvenile basking on the trail
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August 26, 2023
10:52 AM MST
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May 30, 2021
12:24 AM IST
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October 22, 2022
09:34 PM MDT
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May 6, 2023
03:16 AM HST
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July 20, 2021
08:02 PM CDT
Description
Very exciting find for me!
a guess on genus...
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April 5, 2022
05:15 PM UTC
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June 25, 2018
09:32 PM CDT
Description
Found crossing the road late afternoon.
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November 4, 2019
04:00 PM EST
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August 10, 2014
02:01 PM PDT
Description
Looks like a very gravid female.
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January 6, 2022
05:09 PM -05
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April 14, 2022
02:30 PM CEST
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December 23, 2022
09:52 PM CET
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August 12, 2023
03:44 PM UTC
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March 14, 2021
09:49 PM CET
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August 8, 2023
06:21 PM UTC
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August 8, 2023
08:32 PM UTC
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June 3, 2021
10:29 PM CDT
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January 24, 2024
10:41 PM CST
Description
REVISED NOTES (1/25/24): Three observations I have recently uploaded (Glossy Snake, Spotted Chorus Frog, and Red-spotted Toad) come from old scanned slides, all from the same roll with an erroneous (late) stamped date of "Jan 80" on the slide mounts. The creatures were apparently photographed on a green lawn, which implies (a) that they may have been captured locally and photographed before release, (b) that they were documented during the growing season. I have assumed that they were all photographed by me in person. The set of three species have partially overlapping ranges which I thought would help me pin down the location and--with the aid of supplemental field notes--a possible date of occurrence. Unfortunately, searches of all my field notes and calendars have failed to find any mention of these occurrences. My field notes almost certainly would have made mention of a Glossy Snake documented in hand.
Assuming (a) that the images are actually my own, and (b) that the images were taken sometime within a year prior to the stamped date on the mounts (e.g. Jan 1979 - Jan 1980), I looked at all my field work for this period and tried to narrow down the possibilities. Aside from local (Austin area) birding notes, I found documentation of 18 field trips and excursions during this period which span a wide swath of Texas and one trip to n.e. Arizona. I can eliminate 15 of the 18 field trips because they occurred in the cold seasons and/or were well out of the range of one or more of the three species (e.g. no Red-spotted Toads occur in East Texas, etc.). I am left with three field excursions as possibilities:
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I made a birding trip to West Texas (mostly Big Bend NP) May 12-19, 1979. During that trip, my friends and I did some road cruising after local thunderstorms in the desert on two dates. On May 18, I listed encounters with a Glossy Snake and an abundance of Red-spotted Toads on the roads between the Chisos Basin and Rio Grande Village. That is intriguing, but I make no mention of whether any were photographed. Moreover, no species of Chorus Frog is mentioned in those notes, and none is known to occur in the Big Bend of Texas. As intriguing as this possibility is, I discount it as a source of the observations.
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From October 1-11, 1979, I did extensive field work in the Kayenta-Black Mesa region in northeast Arizona. That field work includes regular help lists, but none of the three species are mentioned and no chorus frog is mapped as occurring in the region. I discount this field effort.
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From May 28-31, 1979, I did field work in Palo Pinto County, Texas, on/near the Worth Ranch on the Brazos River downstream of Possum Kingdom Reservoir. Although I have no herp lists from those efforts, I had previously scanned and uploaded a small number of snake, lizard, and frog observations which were documented with slides from that work. They are on a roll with a date stamp of "Jul 79" but are necessarily from the late May field work, the only time I visited the area that year. A careful perusal of readily available herp records (iNaturalist, Werler & Dixon 2000, etc.) suggests that Glossy Snake has NOT been documented in Palo Pinto County, although it has been documented in Comanche and Shackelford counties a few counties to the south and west and others to the north on the Red River. Both Spotted Chorus Frog and Red-spotted Toad have been documented in Palo Pinto County although they are apparently uncommon.
Did I photograph the above three species in Palo Pinto County, then leave the roll of film in a camera for several more months before developing it? This now seems unlikely. I have other personal field photos (slides) dated after the May 1979 field work and before the "Jan 80" time stamp on the subject slides, suggesting I exposed and developed other film in the interim. Curiously, the eight slides documenting the three herp species are the only slides I have in my collection with a stamp of "Jan 80"; the remainder of the roll they were on are absent. That is suspicious. I'm a pack rat; I rarely throw out slides--only extremely blurred ones of no value.
All the above lead me to question one of my basic assumptions, that these are my own slides. I accomplished the field work in Palo Pinto County with a companion field biologist who was an avid herper. I don't know what other field work he did nor if he would have given me the slides for my collection. Of more concern, I have in my collection large numbers of slides taken by my late friend Greg Lasley from all over Texas and the World. I am usually careful to label any of Greg's slides so as not to confuse them with any of mine...but the quality of his imagery is such that I rarely have to worry about that. And now that I look closely at the eight slides documenting the three herp species--from somewhere, sometime--I cannot rule out the possibility that I received these from Greg Lasley. However, Greg himself never uploaded any records of Glossy Snake or Spotted Chorus Frog and only a single Red-spotted Toad (from 2016 in Big Bend). If he had images of these species, I'm quite certain he would have added them to the iNat database.
In the end, the uncertainty about the provenance of the eight slides and thus my "observations" of the three species must lead me to discount both the date and location I had previously ascribed to them. I'm going to leave all three observations on iNat but I will be marking both the date and location of each observation as not accurate in the DQA, relegating these observations to casual status.
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March 11, 2021
10:39 AM -03
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July 22, 2017
09:37 PM BST
Description
Vohimana Experimental Reserve, Moramanga, Madagascar.
Copyright 2016 - Joshua Ralph
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August 24, 2022
10:54 AM PDT
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June 9, 2023
09:42 PM PDT
Description
Dart frog with two tadpoles on its back!
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June 20, 2023
12:33 AM UTC