Jürgen Gebhart wrote:Gabri, I`m sorry, but I remember you right time wrong places! I heard a Story that a spanish-dutch Group found in one night 14 Snakes on the road incl. Eryx and Cerastes gasperetti a week before we arrived in east Oman! And some Kids and an old Bastard spend the time in the high cold mountains and wounder them selfs that they found nothing!
Yes, maybe you are right. There the weather conditions maybe are not so different to the mediterranean countries so probably also april-may is also good time for herping there. The rare thing is this: 14 snakes AOR and 15 days later 0 snakes in roads. Strange country climatology! Quite different to mediterranean basin
In high cold mountains we found both Omanosaura, a lot of Pristurus, Platyceps rhodorachis and Psammophis schokari actived during the day, so we had options for Pseudocerastes (just some days later the "spanish-dutch group" found 3!!!!!). The conditions in the evening were perfect and we were with a local person that had found some of these rare vipers there so the plan was perfect, probably the only wrong thing was the extreme rains of the days-weeks before
Thomas Bader wrote:We visited oman in feb. No rain, and for us it was also mainly a gecko trip.But with about 10 lytorhynchus, psammophis and rhodorachis some snakes were overrepresented. Only two echis and one spalerosophis.Also our mountain trips were also not productive at all - the landscape was absolutely impressive!
In my opinión, Oman is a gecko country so the most probably thing when you visit Oman is to find 15-30 geckos species and just 2-10 snake species.
Lytorhynchus is a very common species there, this is the cause because I think that something was wrong in our visit to the dunes (2 nights without any snake track instead of many mammals, geckos and invertebrates actived during the nights).
About mountain, I think february is very early there, and best moment maybe is may-july (I have not experience there, probably Egan knows better).
Yes, -with more or less herping- just to see the landscapes is recomendable to visit Akhdar!