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- June 24th, 2017, 5:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Going the Extra Mile - DOR live birth
- Replies: 25
- Views: 21415
Re: Going the Extra Mile - DOR live birth
Nice work. I had a similar situation a couple years ago, but unfortunately, it was caused by me. I was mowing the lawn and nicked a gravid Northern Ringneck Snake, cutting her almost in half. I noticed movement inside, and finished the job with a pocket knife. Pat, are you suggesting that there wer...
- September 20th, 2015, 11:08 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Introduced Aspidoscelis sonorae, or is it something else??
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3495
Re: Introduced Aspidoscelis sonorae, or is it something else
iNaturalist staff is basically 4 people. They can't pick and choose which names they use given that iNaturalist covers thousands of species. They simply follow recommendations posted by relevant checklists, in this case the ASIH/SSAR/HL names list. I use iNat a lot, but there are many cases where I ...
- September 18th, 2015, 10:06 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: new invasives
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2993
Re: new invasives
Just got another Coqui Frog this week. This time in Long Beach. If others learn of Coqui Frogs, or better yet get photos or recordings, please submit those to a citizen science project like HERP or RASCals so that there is some documentation of the widespread introduction of these frogs. You can als...
- September 18th, 2015, 10:01 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Introduced Aspidoscelis sonorae, or is it something else??
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3495
Re: Introduced Aspidoscelis sonorae, or is it something else
Contact Adam Backlin with USGS. He has caught several and is working up the note describing this new nonnative population. I am aware of two different sightings (both submitted to the RASCals citizen science project) and they are about 2km apart. So these whiptails already seem to be relatively wide...
Re: Reminder
Getting it to SDNHM is great (plus then Brad has to deal with dissecting out the tiny little liver for a tissue sample instead of me!!). Getting it to USGS/Robert Fisher is also a good alternative. My personal recommendation is to get it to the museum simply because SDNHM, and all other major museum...
- June 18th, 2014, 6:50 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Thoughts on iNaturalist.org
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5375
Re: Thoughts on iNaturalist.org
Gluesenkamp and I both curate projects on iNaturalist, and I know we both spend a lot of time thinking about 'geoprivacy.' What is different about iNaturalist than say databases of museum records is that the observation is oftentimes very recent. So if someone posts a Mtn King they just observed, a ...
Re: Reminder
Jeff, First, do not collect in state parks, ecological reserves, national parks, etc. They all require site-specific permits. To salvage, taking a cooler and some ziplocs is definitely best. When you get home, put the specimens in a freezer until they can get taken to a museum. As long as salvaged s...
Re: Reminder
Add a CA Fish and Wildlife Salvage Permit to Fundad's list. Anyone may apply for one. Just takes forever to finally receive it. Salvaging DOR's is still considered collection/take. What is the salvage permit that you mentioned? I am not aware of a specific salvage permit, other than asking for perm...
Re: Reminder
Keith, thanks for the mention and the big bag of DORs your brought to the LACM. Just to clarify, these specimens aren't necessarily for my own research projects; they are getting used by a large number of people. I am currently looking at changes in diet and parasites in common snakes and lizards as...
- February 25th, 2014, 9:43 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Los Angeles County Database Species List
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3737
Re: Los Angeles County Database Species List
Brian's correct. I did record anoles for L.A. County this past year. I collected 4 voucher specimens. This spring, I will return to the site to get a better idea of how widespread they are. I have no doubt that there are other established anole populations in L.A. County that we simply are not yet a...
- February 16th, 2014, 9:01 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Interesting Recent Gecko Observation
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4133
Re: Interesting Recent Gecko Observation
Interesting observation. From a look at the distribution of known museum specimens, it seems reasonable. Known records occur just to the SW in the Chino Hills, to the ESE towards Loma Linda and Colton, and to the E in the foothills above Muscoy. I suggest contacting Brad H. at SDNHM to see if you ca...
- February 15th, 2014, 9:56 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Off the wall question regarding thirsty herps
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5305
Re: Off the wall question regarding thirsty herps
I've given water to trapped skinks and desert snakes before. I opened an irrigation box that was part of a revegetation project. There were several dead skinks inside, three barely living dehydrated skinks, and one slightly dehydrated but more active skink. I caught the 4 living skinks and put them ...
- November 29th, 2013, 5:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Introduced Herps of Southern California
- Replies: 53
- Views: 16870
Re: Introduced Herps of Southern California
Can these gecko's resemble Med. Geckos? I ask because the first invasive gecko I ever found was tentatively ID'd by Grismer (by way of W. Fowley) as some sort of Pan-Asian gecko. With the proliferation of Med. Geckos here in So Cal, I gradually became convinced that what I found (under a mobile hom...
- November 26th, 2013, 2:23 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Introduced Herps of Southern California
- Replies: 53
- Views: 16870
Re: Introduced Herps of Southern California
What particular species are yours? I think our KS introduced lizards are Podarcis sicula ; yours look a little bigger. Interestingly, though they can be locally common (I don't know if I'd call them 'abundant'), they don't seem to get much outside the Topeka city limits. From what I understand, it'...
- November 24th, 2013, 10:08 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Introduced Herps of Southern California
- Replies: 53
- Views: 16870
Re: Introduced Herps of Southern California
Jonathan, great stuff! I'm sorry I missed this post several years ago and in the past 6 weeks as it was brought back up. Here are some more new introductions. Green Anoles established in L.A. County. This was posted to the Natural History Museum of L.A. County blog and then was picked up by several ...
- October 17th, 2013, 7:21 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Come Visit The NAFHA Booth@ 5th Annual RAAD event @ LACNHM
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2063
Re: Come Visit The NAFHA Booth@ 5th Annual RAAD event @ LAC
thx gpb, i'm going to try to make it. were you the folks who were looking for dor's in good shape? I have a frozen completely intact panamint if you like, and a few other dor snakes... jim Hi Jim, yes, that was me. I was specifically looking for DOR specimens to use on a snake diversity wall that s...
- October 16th, 2013, 9:11 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Come Visit The NAFHA Booth@ 5th Annual RAAD event @ LACNHM
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2063
Re: Come Visit The NAFHA Booth@ 5th Annual RAAD event @ LAC
How much is admission? my computer won't open the link? jim If you are working the NAFHA booth, admission is free. If you are visiting as a standard museum patron, then adult admission is $12, college students and seniors $9, children 13-17 $9, kids 3-12 $5. If you want to check out the seasonally ...
- October 11th, 2013, 8:54 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Come Visit The NAFHA Booth@ 5th Annual RAAD event @ LACNHM
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2063
Re: Come Visit The NAFHA Booth@ 5th Annual RAAD event @ LAC
Thanks for posting this Brian. I am looking forward to seeing you, John, the NAFHA booth, and others associated with NAFHA who will be there. In addition to all the booths, talks, and other activities that Brian mentioned, I'll be giving a talk in the afternoon on herp citizen science projects that ...
- July 8th, 2013, 8:27 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: More Gonocephalus grandis
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1746
Re: More Gonocephalus grandis
Poor little guy is getting nailed by a mosquito.
- July 1st, 2013, 11:59 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Need help: please salvage roadkill in southern CA!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5517
Re: Need help: please salvage roadkill in southern CA!
I was also able to donate a couple specimens for use in this display of LA's urban wildlife. I had the opportunity to take my kids to visit the Nature Lab, and I wanted to acknowledge the fantastic job Greg and everyone else involved did with this exhibit. The wall of snake skins came out really we...
- July 1st, 2013, 11:52 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Need help: please salvage roadkill in southern CA!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5517
Re: Need help: please salvage roadkill in southern CA!
If I might make one more general suggestion - when a museum communicates back to a citizen scientist about specimen(s) the citizen salvaged, the museum could let the citizen know the museum number(s) assigned to the specimen(s). Then the citizen can - if they wish - put the museum number in their H...
- June 28th, 2013, 2:54 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Need help: please salvage roadkill in southern CA!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5517
Re: Need help: please salvage roadkill in southern CA!
I've been traveling and with limited internet access, but Brian nailed the answer. Always happy to put DORs into the collection. And if you do post photos to the HERP database, let us know when you submit the specimens so we can make a note in the museum database that there are photos in the HERP da...
- June 16th, 2013, 1:17 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Moving Help
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1183
Re: Moving Help
I've done moves, including with a ball python, multiple times by placing them in a pillow case in a cooler without cold packs. The only thing I would add to the previous suggestions is to get an indoor/outdoor thermometer where the outdoor sensor is at the end of a long wire. Then you can place the ...
- June 5th, 2013, 7:58 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Need help: please salvage roadkill in southern CA!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5517
Re: Need help: please salvage roadkill in southern CA!
A big THANKS to all who contributed specimens for the exhibit and also to those of you who are planning to contribute additional specimens later in the season for the exhibit or to the research collection. I hate seeing or hearing about roadkill, but I really appreciate the efforts to make some good...
- June 5th, 2013, 7:53 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Need help: please salvage roadkill in southern CA!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5517
Re: Need help: please salvage roadkill in southern CA!
GBP I picked up a really Nice Coachwhip (appx 4 ft)that will make a nice display yesterday.. Also picked up a Glossy for you, its in good (Not great) condition. With a little work it could be displayed too.. I ll keep looking for others too. Fundad Thanks Fundad! The exhibit opens Saturday night, a...
- May 30th, 2013, 9:03 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Need help: please salvage roadkill in southern CA!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5517
Re: Need help: please salvage roadkill in southern CA!
Jonathan picked up on the whole issue of needing licenses for roadkill. The regs for herps, or at least the justification for the regs, are basically a carry-over from the regs for game animals. How does LE know what is or isn't roadkill, especially if a game animal is already quartered. If a hunter...
- May 12th, 2013, 12:05 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Need help: please salvage roadkill in southern CA!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5517
Re: Need help: please salvage roadkill in southern CA!
Kidcury, you can pm me, or email me at gpauly at nhm dot org. If you can contribute specimens, then we can figure out a time and place to meet that is convenient for you. Or if you want to come into the museum and drop them off, then I can show you around the collection at the same time.
- May 10th, 2013, 6:13 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Need help: please salvage roadkill in southern CA!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5517
Need help: please salvage roadkill in southern CA!
Some of the folks here know me, but for those who don't, I am the Curator of Herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM). I am in immediate need for decent roadkill for an upcoming, permanent exhibit at the NHM on L.A.'s urban biodiversity. The exhibit will include a wall w...
- January 8th, 2013, 8:24 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Fenix flashlights
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8162
Re: Fenix flashlights
Thanks for the tip Van. The 20 minutes of re-working the straps is not a big concern. However, the hours of looking for where the heck I placed the discarded top strap, thats' going to be a bigger issue.
- January 6th, 2013, 9:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: museum on the chopping block
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2723
Re: museum on the chopping block
Thanks for posting this Gordon. This is extremely relevant to herpetology. The herpetology collection at the Field Museum is one of the world's premier research collections. It was built up in part by the work of previous curators such as K.P. Schmidt, Clifford Pope, Hymen Marx, Harold Voris, Bob In...
- January 6th, 2013, 9:18 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Fenix flashlights
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8162
Re: Fenix flashlights
I have a TK41 and HP11. Both are great, have experienced lots of use and abuse, and still are going strong. However, the strap for my HP11 was very poorly designed. I purchased it almost 2 years ago so I assume Fenix has changed the design by now. The central, over the head strap was only long enoug...
- October 24th, 2012, 4:41 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Gila Monsters on the Coast?!? (Monterey Bay....)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4045
Re: Gila Monsters on the Coast?!? (Monterey Bay....)
This is most likely a pet trade animal, kept by someone in Pebble Beach. The appropriate tag would say "no data" or "pet trade", but sometimes pet trade animals get incorrectly listed as the locality where the animal was kept as a pet. Heloderma where much more common in the pet ...
- October 8th, 2012, 11:34 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Pseudacris calling ...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1376
Re: Pseudacris calling ...
Years ago, I saw a few minutes of a Stargate SG1 episode in which some people were walking through a swamp that was supposed to be on some other planet. In the background, P. regilla were calling! It was great. And the next time you watch Rambo, check out all the P. regilla in the supposed jungles o...
- October 6th, 2012, 8:24 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Dave Wake speaking Sunday at Nat History Museum Los Angeles
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1760
Re: Dave Wake speaking Sunday at Nat History Museum Los Ange
Will, thanks for posting the schedule. Immediately after my first post I took off for a mtn bike ride in the Santa Monicas and have been gone for 5.5 hours. With the lower temps and higher humidity, there was more diurnal snake activity than at any point I've been up there in the past 2 months. Only...
- October 6th, 2012, 1:28 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Dave Wake speaking Sunday at Nat History Museum Los Angeles
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1760
Dave Wake speaking Sunday at Nat History Museum Los Angeles
Just wanted to let folks know that tomorrow is Reptile and Amphibian Appreciation Day at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The highlight of the day (at least in my opinion) is that Dr. David Wake from UC Berkeley will be giving a guest lecture on salamander diversity in California. W...