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DOR, 101 cm snout to vent, 24 cm vent to tail tip. Tissue sample collected for submission to Sul Ross.
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Culebra Ratonera de Las Planicies (Pantherophis emoryi)Observ.
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Quarter for scale, biggest great plains rat I've ever seen!
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DOR, around 4 1/2 feet long. Tissue sample collected to be sent to Sul Ross.
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Cascabel del Altiplano (Crotalus scutulatus)Observ.
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DOR, around 22 inches long. River Road between Terlingua and Lajitas.
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Cascabel de Diamantes (Crotalus atrox)Observ.
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Slaughtered and it's rattles cut off. :-((
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Lagartija de Collar del Altiplano (Crotaphytus collaris)Observ.
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Young one, with an incomplete shed in his neck area.
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Culebra Ratonera de Las Planicies (Pantherophis emoryi)Observ.
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Sunning on a dirt road.
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Cascabel de Diamantes (Crotalus atrox)Observ.
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Estimated between 3 1/2 to 4 feet long, first saw it crossing the dirt road. It quickly sought shelter under a mesquite tree when I tried for photos.
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Lagartija Sorda Mayor (Cophosaurus texanus)Observ.
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A male, perched on some rocks on a narrow promontory. One close-up shot, and one that shows the habitat.
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Lagartija Sorda Mayor (Cophosaurus texanus)Observ.
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Small female I observed perched on rocks, then as she foraged. She would stop and wave her tail as she foraged. She then did a shimmy burial in the loose rocks, with her back legs and tail still visible.
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Sochuate (Thamnophis marcianus)Observ.
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He didn't stick around for a decent photo! Nice sized animal between 2 1/2 and3 feet long.
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Cascabel de Diamantes (Crotalus atrox)Observ.
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My birthday snake! :-). Very pretty dark grey and very chunky. Hoping a gravid female. I coaxed her off the dirt road, she's safe. :-).
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Messy web between a mesquite tree and a one-lane bridge. She was a little over an inch long. That ID is the closest I could find in my spider books.
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Rana Leopardo de Las Planicies (Lithobates blairi)Observ.
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Observed at the edge of a very small pond around the size of an above-ground swimming pool. This pond often goes dry.
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Sochuate (Thamnophis marcianus)Observ.
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Dead on road, under 24 inches long.
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Liebre Cola Negra (Lepus californicus)Observ.
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I observed this one and 4 others very close by along the edges of a field. After several years of seeing very few jackrabbits, they have made a comeback.
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Garza Nocturna Corona Negra (Nycticorax nycticorax)Observ.
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Solitary bird on a stock pond that had been dry because of the drought until this spring. I got the photo with him on the branches of a dead black willow tree along the tank dam first, then when I tried to get closer he flew to a fence post out in the water.
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Rata Canguro Común (Dipodomys ordii)Observ.
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DOR. :-(. I've seen quite a few at this location darting across the road.
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Tortuga Pinta (Trachemys scripta ssp. elegans)Observ.
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Basking on a log in a stock pond that was bone-dry last year, and almost dry earlier in the spring after catching some water over the winter. It's been interesting to see the wildlife returning.
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Lagartija de Collar del Altiplano (Crotaphytus collaris)Observ.
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Large green male and smaller female with breeding coloration. Or possibly a juvenile male. They were hanging out together on top of a large rock.
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Tortuga Pecho Quebrado Amarilla (Kinosternon flavescens)Observ.
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Another on the road turtle, safe now.
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Sapo Texano (Anaxyrus speciosus)Observ.
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Found on a red dirt road around 30 feet from Beaver Creek. Size was around 4 to 5 CM.
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Lagartija de Collar del Altiplano (Crotaphytus collaris)Observ.
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Female, on the side of a steep wash.