First time at the dunes

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First time at the dunes

Postby Aviad Bar » Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:11 pm

On Saturday I went with my daughter (one year old) and my spouse to the western Negev dunes (Israel).
We spent about an hour looking for reptile’s tracks.
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The species list included:

Stenodactylus peterii
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Macroprotodon cucullatos
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Cerastes vipera
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Stenodactylus stenodactylus
Acanthodactylus aegyptius
Acanthodactylus scutellatus
Chalcides sepsoides
Litorhinchus diadema
The must exiting observation was in the day after - a mature female of Testudo kleinmanni
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Re: First time at the dunes

Postby Sebastian Holzki » Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:49 pm

Great pictures
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Re: First time at the dunes

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:52 pm

G r e a t !
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Re: First time at the dunes

Postby Jürgen Gebhart » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:34 pm

Cool!!

Big congrats on the kleinmanni!
(hope you show me the place in four weeks) ;)
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Re: First time at the dunes

Postby GertJan Verspui » Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:34 pm

Very cool place to spend the night, GREAT!
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Re: First time at the dunes

Postby Peter Oefinger » Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:25 am

great! very nice Macroprotodon...
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