Spring trip to Calabria and Sicily

[Bobby Bok]

In my silly quest to see as many European species as possible, southern Italy has always been a major gap. This spring I spend a little over a week in beautiful Calabria and Sicily with a small day excursion to the Aeolian islands as a highly memorable highlight. During the week we weren't so much blessed with profitable weather and we had to work hard for some of our maingoals (waglerianus, boulengeri and Z. lineatus) while others (such as Salamandrina and Lissotriton) were present in high numbers. Have a look at my report: http://www.herpsafari.nl/tripreports-eu ... ia-sicily/

Lissotriton italicus


Salamandra salamandra gigliolii


Salamandrina terdigitata


Hyla intermedia


Xenopus laevis from an introduced Sicilian population.


Bufo "boulengeri"


Chamaeleo chamaeleon from an introduced Italian population.


Podarcis raffonei alvearioi


Podarcis waglerianus


Lacerta bilineata chloronota


Natrix natrix sicula


Zamenis lineatus

[Gabriel Martínez]

VEry cool photos! Specially the Zamenis and Salamandrina

[Martti Niskanen]

Nice stuff.

[Dominik Hauser]

Congratz on these nice findings!

[Peter Oefinger]

Very nice, in particular the raffoneis.

[Mario Schweiger]

Very nive and good report, as well as all these pictures!
Love the Salamandrina and Lissotriton shots

Mario

[Daniel Kane]

Great-looking trip as always, Bobby. I can imagine your relief when you could finally get ashore to see the P. raffonei! I really like the look of the grass snakes too

[GertJan Verspui]

Looks good buddy, we did have a good time, I will send some falcon pics soon, and a photo of Pino and 2 naked killing machines

[Niklas Ban]

Good stuff Bobby! I like the lineatus

[Bobby Bok]

Thanks a lot guys! And GJ, I don't like it when you say Pino to Paul!