Sardegna naturalist trip

Sardegna naturalist trip

Postby Robin Duborget » Thu May 18, 2017 7:41 pm

Hello guys,

I was in Sardegna with my wife during two weeks in April, looking for Speleomantes, turtles, but also endemic flowers and insects (Pamphagus sardeus !).
With the profusion of bibliography in english and italian about herpetofauna in Sardegna it was quite easy to see most species (apart Speleomantes sarrabusensis).

Here the species we saw :
Testudo marginata :
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The biggest (near 40 cm !) :
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Testudo graeca (very common, in "sandy" places around Oristano) :
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Speleomantes supramontis :
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Speleomantes flavus :
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Speleomantes imperialis :
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Speleomantes genei (or Atylodes genei ?) :
ssp A :
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ssp B :
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genei is my favourite, looking very different from the others and the continental species (and with a distinct evolutive history).

Euproctus platycephalus :
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Brooks are very rare in Sardegna, so is the brook newt ...

On our "wish list" we have missed only sarrabusensis (hard to find outside winter), and Hemorrhois seems very hard to find.

And the Pamphagus sardeus, biggest grasshopper in Europe :
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us :
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with the Pamphagus (big !)
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For the snake lovers :
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For the naturalists, here the full report on flickr :
https://www.flickr.com/gp/141135600@N04/1T56N7

Robin
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Re: Sardegna naturalist trip

Postby Robin Duborget » Thu May 18, 2017 8:02 pm

And again, bug ! Can't connect to the forum apart from my phone...
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Re: Sardegna naturalist trip

Postby Bobby Bok » Fri May 19, 2017 7:10 pm

Hope the bug can be fixed, your images already look great and can't wait to see more!
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Re: Sardegna naturalist trip

Postby Robin Duborget » Fri May 19, 2017 8:30 pm

Not tonight ! I tried to upload the rest but the website has deconnected me (the pictures weight less than 200 ko so I don't understand why !).

You have the Flickr link for the pictures.
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Re: Sardegna naturalist trip

Postby Michal Szkudlarek » Fri May 19, 2017 8:58 pm

hah unlike You I had no luck with Chalcides chalcides when on sardegna, i was finding only Chalcides occeatus under stones
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Re: Sardegna naturalist trip

Postby Andre Schmid » Fri May 19, 2017 9:12 pm

Very nice and beautiful cettis in your flickr link!
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Re: Sardegna naturalist trip

Postby Ilian Velikov » Fri May 19, 2017 9:25 pm

Also great tortoise photos. Thanks for those! Not enough of them here.
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Re: Sardegna naturalist trip

Postby Robin Duborget » Sun May 21, 2017 4:34 pm

Thanks !

I tried to upload some pictures, did it for some of them but the site deconnected me after editing.

So the full report will be only on flickr :)

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