Jeroen Speybroeck wrote:Kevin, Kristian, if the "find-it-yourself" virus is mild in you, feel free to drop by for Salamandra madness some day.
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It's funny how in the USA herpers always judge this sort of thing in terms of personal finds, while we (or maybe not all of us?) tend to 'allow' group finds on our personal lists. That's another (silly but fun) point of debate by itself, no? I checked and if I only count "find-it-yourself", I would still have to go and find 1 newt species, 3 species of frogs, a sea turtle, 1 or 2 lizard species and a smashing 10 species of snakes to complete the Euro list. Luckily, I allow myself a lazier way of twitching - as you can see, my snake list would be a lot shorter if it wasn't for the help of many, many others.
I can understand personal effort has its own reward, but I've never really got "the US way". Especially not, if it comes down to going to a very small spot of which you know beforehand there's guaranteed success (e.g. a Speleomantes cave someone told you about, an islet with Podarcis raffonei or levendis, ...) or road cruising (where's the effort in driving other than spending money, polluting and staying awake?).
Kristian Munkholm wrote:whatever set of criteria I apply (to issues such as "find-it-yourself" but there are others as well) will always be more or less random. If I take the strictest criteria I could imagine and replace them with the most permissive I would probably boost my list by 50%.
Kristian Munkholm wrote:...& yes, I'd love to drop by your local woods if I'm ever in the neighbourhood
Jürgen Gebhart wrote:Vipera ammodytes ruffoi or how I call it, “Phantom”
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