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    Night of the Bird Poop Frogs

    February 22, 2019 / 8 Comments

    Iquitos, a Peruvian river city accessible to the outside world only by water or air, has just one road leading out of town, a two-lane blacktop that runs for 60…

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  • Field Herping

    ThamnoPalooza

    August 18, 2018 / 12 Comments

    Occasionally I’m asked questions like “what is your favorite herp / herping place / herp adventure?”. Answers for the first two change constantly, but to date I have a pretty…

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  • Field Herping

    Wet Work in Appalachia

    November 8, 2017 / 3 Comments

    When October wanes and November approaches, I start to wonder about when my herping season will end.  What will be the last herp of the year? Can I see one…

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  • Creature Featurettes

    Blood, Corn, and Rattlesnakes

    April 6, 2017 / 3 Comments

    The neonate tzabcan had crawled out of a cornfield, and was making its way to dense forest on the other side of the road when it was smashed flat against…

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  • Field Herping

    Road-Cruising in Amazonia

    January 29, 2017 / 3 Comments

    One of the hallmark activities of field herping, driving on (preferably) lonely roads at night can be incredibly productive at times. In the United States there are some famous and…

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  • Field Herping

    Nostalgia for a Sunny Afternoon

    December 15, 2016 / No Comments

    The hard drive on my laptop bricked recently, and while going through the laborious process of restoring files from backup, I came across a folder labeled ‘10292006’ in my image…

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  • Field Herping

    Getting Around To The ‘Glades

    September 30, 2016 / 5 Comments

    There’s not much trouble with this herping life, except for the Too-Many-Too-Much problem: too many places to visit, too much to see, and too much to cram into a relatively…

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  • Creature Featurettes, Field Herping

    Night of the Black Caiman

    August 6, 2016 / 2 Comments

    The Madre Selva field station is on the banks of the Rio Orosa, and if you go out on that river at night, you can find Spectacled Caiman (Caiman crocodilus)…

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  • Creature Featurettes, Field Herping

    Joining the Cobra Club

    June 23, 2016 / No Comments

    ‘I am Nag,’ said the cobra; ‘look, and be afraid!’….But at the bottom of his cold heart, he was afraid. -Kipling It was our last full herping day in Thailand,…

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  • Field Herping

    Badlands, Bison and Bullsnakes

    June 5, 2016 / 10 Comments

    “There ain’t much between the Pole and South Dakota, and barb wire won’t stop the wind…” So goes a pretty good song by James McMurtry, but I beg to differ…

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