Lorraine, Provence, Piedmont, Switzerland, Germany

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Lorraine, Provence, Piedmont, Switzerland, Germany

Postby Niklas Ban » Fri May 25, 2018 10:09 am

When Sebastian Dörnemann and me started this trip we had big plans for finding many viperspecies, so Vipera ursinii, walser, aspis aspis, aspis "atra" and aspis francisciredi were high on our wishlist. The weather wasn't acting like we wanted so we had to change our plans a little bit and it turned out quite well. We missed some of our vipergoals, but saw a lot of stuff we didn't expected. The whole story of many ups and many downs, new dutch friends and many other species than shown here you can find on my website: https://www.niklas-wildlife.de/exkursio ... quad-2018/

I hope you enjoy the report, I think it is quite funny and interesting.
Species found : Anguis fragilis, Anguis veronensis, Chalcides striatus, Lacerta bilineata, Timon lepidus, Podarcis muralis (ssp. brongniardii & maculiventris), Psammodromus edwarsianus, Zootoca vivipara, Vipera aspis aspis, Vipera ursinii ursinii, Hierophis viridiflavus, Zamenis longissimus, Rhinechis scalaris
Coronella austriaca, Coronella girondica, Natrix maura, Natrix helvetica,Natrix tessellata,Trachemys spec., Salamandra salamandra, Rana temporaria (larvae), Bufo spinosus, Bufo bufo (not sure if that individual we found were still spinosus but it looked more like bufo), Hyla meridionalis, Pelophylax spec.,Pelodytes punctatus, Alytes obstetricans
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Re: Lorraine, Provence, Piedmont, Switzerland, Germany

Postby Christoph Stenger » Fri May 25, 2018 12:22 pm

Thanks for the trip report - sound like you have had a jolly good time!

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Re: Lorraine, Provence, Piedmont, Switzerland, Germany

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Fri May 25, 2018 4:05 pm

Niklas Ban wrote:I hope you enjoy the report, I think it is quite funny and interesting.

A warranted lack of modesty ;) , as I indeed enjoyed it very much! I like your attempts at the more arty photography! Nice ursinii result also.
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Re: Lorraine, Provence, Piedmont, Switzerland, Germany

Postby Niklas Ban » Fri May 25, 2018 6:30 pm

Thank you both guys, I am very happy you enjoyed it!
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Re: Lorraine, Provence, Piedmont, Switzerland, Germany

Postby Andre Schmid » Sat May 26, 2018 10:56 am

Very nice tripreport! Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Lorraine, Provence, Piedmont, Switzerland, Germany

Postby Niklas Ban » Sat May 26, 2018 3:42 pm

Thanks Andre!
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Re: Lorraine, Provence, Piedmont, Switzerland, Germany

Postby Bobby Bok » Sun May 27, 2018 8:35 am

Very cool tripreport and pictures Niklas, looks like a very fun trip!
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Re: Lorraine, Provence, Piedmont, Switzerland, Germany

Postby Niklas Ban » Sun May 27, 2018 11:46 am

Thank you Bobby and indeed it was! I wait for some african vipers, when is the report coming? ;)
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Re: Lorraine, Provence, Piedmont, Switzerland, Germany

Postby Bobby Bok » Mon May 28, 2018 10:24 am

Niklas Ban wrote:Thank you Bobby and indeed it was! I wait for some african vipers, when is the report coming? ;)


Coming soon ;)
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