It was the name of the Acadian/Willow Flycatcher group before they split. Birds in field can only be reliably separated by call.
As for empid identification in general, I suspect they are often misidentified, even sometimes by the most skillful birders when no vocalization is given.
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- July 19th, 2016, 12:02 pm
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: Identifying empid flycatchers...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 29043
- July 6th, 2016, 12:36 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massive sea turtle deaths in Florida following fireworks
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10002
Re: Massive sea turtle deaths in Florida following fireworks
This might be a good cause for the NAFHA SE Chapter to pursue to spur an investigation and hopefully prosecution. Seems to be a clear violation of ESA and should be easy to prove.
- July 6th, 2016, 8:05 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massive sea turtle deaths in Florida following fireworks
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10002
Re: Massive sea turtle deaths in Florida following fireworks
This is an outrageous! Loggerheads are an endangered species. I'd think the jurisdictions that permitted and supported that disaster would be highly exposed legally, i.e., law suits. U.S. Fish & Wildlife and NGOs like "The Natural Resources Defense Council" would likely consider action...
- April 1st, 2016, 9:24 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: My trip to the Mohave
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9355
Re: My trip to the Mohave
Congrats Zach, that Lyre is one of very few from MNP I believe. ...as in like 3 or 4 from my understanding! They're probably common there, just not found very often. Does anyone know different?
- December 25th, 2015, 8:17 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: 2016 Calendar and some pretty photos from this year
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6763
Re: 2016 Calendar and some pretty photos from this year
To my eye that is the best collection of herp images I've ever seen. Your technique for framing the snakes in such natural poses takes it to a new level!!! That and such awesome finds and adventures!!!
- December 19th, 2015, 8:21 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Not quite a snake but...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6572
Re: Not quite a snake but...
Nick, the only places I've snorkeled yet in on Cruz have be Scorpion Landing and Prisoner's Harbor, both of which are protected. The islands are sort of a checkerboard of protected and non-protected waters. One thing that may likely limit abundance would be the boat and kayak traffic at those two lo...
- December 18th, 2015, 2:35 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Not quite a snake but...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6572
Re: Not quite a snake but...
btw, what's up with the Triggerfish? Are they regular in So Cal waters or an exception due to El Nino? Never imagined we had any species of triggerfish here.
- December 18th, 2015, 2:27 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Not quite a snake but...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6572
Re: Not quite a snake but...
Hi Nick, this is fantastic stuff and rather coincidental to me as I just started doing some snorkeling on Santa Cruz Island last summer and made a few visits this season. The variety of your finds and photos is awesome, so much stuff I haven't seen yet. And you solved a life-long mystery for me. I w...
- October 17th, 2015, 11:12 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Not My Find, but I Wish...
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12071
Re: Not My Find, but I Wish...
...there's a new twist on an old and common gaffe Seems that should get entered in the NA Herp DB, by whatever means.most poisonous venom
- September 5th, 2015, 10:05 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: In Memory of Kent VanSooy
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11743
Re: In Memory of Kent VanSooy
I never had the pleasure of meeting Kent in the person, but through this forum, have known him to be a man of sterling character ...someone I loved and respected for his words and deeds alone, and the kind of person this world sorely needs more of. A peer in age but someone I always looked up too. M...
- June 8th, 2015, 10:20 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: I've seen it, you seen it ... we've all seen...
- Replies: 58
- Views: 30989
Re: I've seen it, you seen it ... we've all seen...
I like your comments but ...Say what?Jim wrote:King Cobras for example, are known to be one of the few animals that will actively stalk and kill a human
- February 6th, 2015, 9:47 am
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: Birds of the Cayman Islands and Pantanal, Brazil
- Replies: 6
- Views: 19261
Re: Birds of the Cayman Islands and Pantanal, Brazil
Truly SPECTACULAR birds and bird photography!!!
- November 8th, 2014, 8:15 am
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: Biking ABA Big Year Blog
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3456
Biking ABA Big Year Blog
This is epic quest and well worth following, even if you're not a birder. It's interesting on so many levels. Wish I had known about it Jan. 1st.
http://bikingforbirds.blogspot.com/
http://bikingforbirds.blogspot.com/
- September 15th, 2014, 10:02 am
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: Birds From Around Home
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4992
Re: Birds From Around Home
Nice stuff. The Red-tailed in flight/hover is especially appealing!
- September 12th, 2014, 11:13 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: HL on my AZ property, so happy.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4853
Re: HL on my AZ property, so happy.
Just to clarify, you did mean "that far west" right?DesertZone wrote:I also noticed that this AZ field guide (http://www.reptilesofaz.org/Lizards-Sub ... estum.html ) doesn't show them found that far east. My place is just south of Old Pearce AZ.
- September 12th, 2014, 11:13 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: HL on my AZ property, so happy.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2747
Re: HL on my AZ property, so happy.
Just to clarify, you did mean "that far west" right?DesertZone wrote:I also noticed that this AZ field guide (http://www.reptilesofaz.org/Lizards-Sub ... estum.html ) doesn't show them found that far east. My place is just south of Old Pearce AZ.
- September 11th, 2014, 8:48 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: So far in SoCal 2014 - a tale of drought and fire
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7599
Re: So far in SoCal 2014 - a tale of drought and fire
Thanks for the response Kent. I wasn't suggesting your's was a hybrid, just that it helped me see more how that other snake might have some ruber in it. ...the way I phrased my comment was definitely misleading.
- September 9th, 2014, 1:54 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: AZ and NM, 12 days including the NAFHA meeting
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8316
Re: AZ and NM, 12 days including the NAFHA meeting
Burning green! You guys always clean up. Must be one heck of a team
- September 9th, 2014, 12:48 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: So far in SoCal 2014 - a tale of drought and fire
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7599
Re: So far in SoCal 2014 - a tale of drought and fire
Always LOVE your posts Kent!!! ...they have such a natural, play it as it lays feel :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: btw, this pic almost suggests that controversial speck hybrid. http://i449.photobucket.com/albums/qq217/lamprophil/2014%20so%20far%20in%20so%20cal/124neoruber.jpg If you agree then maybe you s...
- September 4th, 2014, 3:09 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Cobra on the loose in Thousand Oaks
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5350
Re: Cobra on the loose in Thousand Oaks
I'm an hour away from T.0. in Ventura and everyone here is pretty much on lock down, businesses are closed and everyone is just waiting for the all clear. Let us pray! As long as I could get a timely dose of the appropriate antivenin/anitvenom, whatever you call it, I'd much rather get bit by a cobr...
- September 4th, 2014, 12:40 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: It's been a while.....
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4379
Re: It's been a while.....
Really fun post, thanks Say, I'm trying to figure out what is that odd object in the first Black-necked Garter image that is obscuring the head of the snake? ...looks like some kind of gastropod shell???
- September 4th, 2014, 8:16 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Cobra on the loose in Thousand Oaks
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5350
Re: Cobra on the loose in Thousand Oaks
CNN.com Headline wrote:NEW Escaped cobra menaces SoCal
- September 3rd, 2014, 2:25 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: hybrid speck×red !?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 24451
Re: hybrid speck×red !?
Four very distinct black bands on white seems unusual to me (limited experience), and that was really the only thing that indicated possible hybrid. Can't see the face well in those pics and was hoping Robert's pic would show that.
- September 2nd, 2014, 9:07 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: hybrid speck×red !?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 24451
Re: hybrid speck×red !?
Doesn't need to be 50/50 ...could be 75/25 speck/red??? Certainly would seem to favor speck. Great find
- September 2nd, 2014, 5:44 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Hypermelanistic Gopher Tortoise
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3073
Re: Hypermelanistic Gopher Tortoise
Maybe that's what happens after being doused with too much gasoline ...not perfectly serious but???
- August 15th, 2014, 9:07 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Kiss the Arroyos/WPT goodbye
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7898
Re: Kiss the Arroyos/WPT goodbye
Pretty much agreed Jim, but even if we live as part of nature, we retain our innate compulsion to reproduce and serve the greatest advantage to ourselves, and our progeny, as possible. It would indeed be unnatural to assume any other manner.
- August 15th, 2014, 8:43 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Kiss the Arroyos/WPT goodbye
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7898
Re: Kiss the Arroyos/WPT goodbye
I don't think the human species will go extinct on this planet as long as there's water, oxygen and sunlight. BUT, it is a fact that the human population on earth will stabilize or reverse at some point in the future. Just how that will come about is pretty much up to us, but I expect it won't be ni...
- August 6th, 2014, 11:36 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snake Bite Stats?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7623
Re: Snake Bite Stats?
I'd love to know that the snake survived unharmed!
- August 6th, 2014, 9:24 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Summer Herping in the RGV - Part 1: The Quest for Leptodeira
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6231
Re: Summer Herping in the RGV - Part 1: The Quest for Leptod
That's just flamin' amazing!!! Don't recall any U.S. records ever posted here and only two records in the NA Herp database. Awesome looking snakes.
- August 6th, 2014, 9:09 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snake Bite Stats?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7623
Re: Snake Bite Stats?
Musta been some serious alcohol/drugs involved in this one. Hernandez-Hernandez became the first person to die in the United States from a fatal coral snake bite since 1967. He and Jesus Moreida, both of Bonita Springs, Florida, were bitten by a coral snake they tried to kill.[ :roll: WTF??? Guidry,...
- August 3rd, 2014, 9:34 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Possible Albino Garter?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2962
Re: Possible Albino Garter?
I can't tell just what's up with the eye at all, even blown up in Photoshop ...BUT, since no one else has expressed any opinion, I'll go with the default, peak shed cycle!
Never knew there was a correlation between keeled scales and "burly" eye caps.
Never knew there was a correlation between keeled scales and "burly" eye caps.
- August 2nd, 2014, 12:02 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Possible Albino Garter?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2962
Re: Possible Albino Garter?
Inexplicably, that didn't occur to me ...but seen lots of snakes in shed cycle and that would be the most obscured I recall. Let's see what others say.
- August 2nd, 2014, 10:17 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Possible Albino Garter?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2962
Possible Albino Garter?
http://serpentrack.com/herps/misc_field_herps/snakes/gartersnake_possible_albino_1a.jpg Thought some here might find this one interesting. Snake found by someone in Oregon, somewhere between Eugene and Portland. Trying to get better pics. Apparently it is resident in a compost pile, so may be seen ...
- July 31st, 2014, 7:56 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: HDW Update... contest results
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2201
Re: HDW Update... contest results
Greater Short-horned Lizard? Range extension?
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...so what do I knowWikipedia wrote:The Short-horned Lizard is more cold tolerant than other species and is able to reach higher elevations and a greater distribution where the temperature is much cooler. They live in many places around the world
- July 17th, 2014, 8:36 am
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: New Zealand birds post / photo dump - Part II - South Island
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6291
- July 15th, 2014, 4:12 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Mertensian mimicry
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3956
Re: Mertensian mimicry
There's one example in the bird world that I'm aware of and that is the apparent mimicry of Turkey Vulture by the Zone-tailed Hawk, which often mixes in with Turkey Vulture flocks. The overall color pattern (aside from the white tail bands) and the flight style whereby the wings are held in a shallo...
- July 12th, 2014, 10:44 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: [URGENT] Native and non-native turtles NEED HELP
- Replies: 66
- Views: 25643
Re: [URGENT] Native and non-native turtles NEED HELP
Well, for snake's sake, wtf do I know? ;o
- July 12th, 2014, 9:23 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: [URGENT] Native and non-native turtles NEED HELP
- Replies: 66
- Views: 25643
Re: [URGENT] Native and non-native turtles NEED HELP
the largemouth can weigh 25 lbs or more Largest bass I'm aware was a Florida strain at Lake Castaic, in SoCal, but that's been topped by one in Japan at 22.311 pounds. Of course those are always gravid and heavy with eggs. The GA record has always been dubious, so not including that, although this ...
- July 11th, 2014, 10:01 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: [URGENT] Native and non-native turtles NEED HELP
- Replies: 66
- Views: 25643
Re: [URGENT] Native and non-native turtles NEED HELP
I beaned a coon with a can of peas (or some sh*t) once while I was van camping ...the frickin varmint didn't eve flinche ...I was surrouned by the evil bastards! Calledi in for some A-10 suppression and they blew their asses right off the planet! God bless! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9La3Yc2u3NM
- July 11th, 2014, 9:49 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Pattern variant C. oreganus
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9711
Re: Pattern variant C. oreganus
Oreganus seems so full of surprises, but that takes the cake IMHO!
- July 11th, 2014, 9:46 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: [URGENT] Native and non-native turtles NEED HELP
- Replies: 66
- Views: 25643
Re: [URGENT] Native and non-native turtles NEED HELP
Dude, that's just like too ...well, can't say it and be politically correct LOL!
- July 11th, 2014, 9:27 pm
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: New Zealand birds post / photo dump - Part I - North Island
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4704
Re: New Zealand birds post / photo dump - Part I - North Isl
Wow, you pounded it!!!
- July 11th, 2014, 9:02 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: [URGENT] Native and non-native turtles NEED HELP
- Replies: 66
- Views: 25643
Re: [URGENT] Native and non-native turtles NEED HELP
Awesome pics Brian, but I'm cornfused about the assertion and your rejection regarding "they prey on the eggs and babies of the California native Western pond turtle" , and your coment ..."What a load of BS" ???
- July 10th, 2014, 4:01 pm
- Forum: Fish Forum
- Topic: Anyone Know what species this Jellyfish is...?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 20493
Re: Anyone Know what species this Jellyfish is...?
I always thought it was Al Gore who invented global warming, or was that just the internets?
- July 10th, 2014, 9:12 am
- Forum: Fish Forum
- Topic: Anyone Know what species this Jellyfish is...?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 20493
Re: Anyone Know what species this Jellyfish is...?
Geez, that pretty much proves it. You should send the heartland.org link to the IPCC, and Obama too for that matter. They obviously aren't too good a Google searching and need access to better information than they get from MSNBC.
- July 9th, 2014, 9:32 am
- Forum: Fish Forum
- Topic: Anyone Know what species this Jellyfish is...?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 20493
Re: Anyone Know what species this Jellyfish is...?
It's a new species that has evolved in response to global warming, which is proven by the melting ice in that pic.
- July 1st, 2014, 8:21 am
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: What was your last lifer?...
- Replies: 381
- Views: 998784
Re: What was your last lifer?...
A Laysan was once recorded in the Cajon Pass, the corridor between San Bernardino and the high desert so... But that is the first time I've heard of one being seen on the coast in SoCal! That's be a lifer for me too.
- June 29th, 2014, 8:06 am
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: What was your last lifer?...
- Replies: 381
- Views: 998784
Re: What was your last lifer?...
Did the Laysan appear healthy? If so, that is truly remarkable. Was it flying or roosting? What day was that? I've gone back though June 15th on the Orange County Listserve and can't find any mention. That sighting is definitely worth documenting and reporting to the county compiler. Also, I assume ...
- June 23rd, 2014, 11:46 am
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Which is best?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7146
- June 22nd, 2014, 8:14 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Striped racer in a tree
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3504
Re: Striped whipsnake in a tree
Can almost guarantee the hummer had a nest in proximity. The snake may already have cleaned it out.