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Hi guys, can you give me some tips for road herping on the Sunshine coast? What roads should we look on? Day or night? Ive driven on loads of roads on the sunshine coast day and night and have only ever seen a few toads and a Eastern Water Dragon (it ran across the road and got hit by a car :( )

Gday all, I am interested to hear stories from people that have been tagged by a ven and what it was like, i dont want this thread to become a safety message about how its irresponsible to get bitten or people glorifying it (no hero stories), i am just genuinly interested in peoples experience...

My husband found this Yellow faced Whip snake under the catcher of his mower. He was lucky he wasn't bitten as the grass was a bit long.

Thought Id make a thread for snake catchers to show off their rescued / relocated venomous snakes. Me 1st

Thursday 23rd 12 2010 Dad goes to visit his dads grave site Bathurst ( white rock ) and trud on a snake mistaking it for a stick was a 5ft brown? snake.......it bit him on the leg then let go and it went its own way........dad ignored the fact he had been bitten .....minutes later he broke into...

Well as some of you know, I live in an area where we get LOTS of herps. We've had a few Green Tree Snakes at my school nearby, we've seen a Pink Tongue skink in our garden and a whipsnake that bit my mum ect... Anyway me and my mum came home from a brisbane a couple of nights ago to find a...

What a magnificent coloured Whipsnake these are..Has anyone known anyone that has bred these..Anyone breeding them in the near future...

Hi, My two dogs had spent a bit of time in the back garden and when we went to investigate, we found the shed skin as shown in the photos attached. Is anyone able to identify if this is a python or snake - and if snake, what sort? It's not very long (~under a metre), but it doesn't appear to...

ok I'll start with a sandy

I found this little beauty on our patio! My first thought was a baby monitor, but now I'm thinking some sort of skink? Sorry, I'm not exactly brilliant at identifying lizards :P If its any help I live in South East QLD

Salutations forumites, First a few warnings. There is quite a lot of text in this post as a consequence of the amount of material. Feel free to skip it and look at the pretty pictures if you please. Also, the photos in this post were taken with both a Canon DSLR and an Olympus point-and-shoot...

Have a look at some of the reps in the Singapore Zoo. Sorry for the poor quality. http://www.aussiepythons.com/forum/member/underbelly-17779/albums/yellow-faced-whipsnake-1234

Fed a few snakes tonight and snapped some quick pics. Feel free to add your own.

G'day All, A friend of mine carefully removed this little guy from one of his bird aviaries and was wondering what species it was. It was released after the photo was taken and relocated on the property not far from the aviaries. My guess is some form of Whipsnake. Any help would be...

Recently went on a 4 day camping/herping trip to Winton with Palex (from APS), Teresea and Keegan. We had great success finding reptiles despite driving the 'wrong' road for 3 out of the 4 nights. Just thought I'd post this link of the trip as a record for anyone thinking of going out there. I...

As the resident snake relocator you get some nice photos. Heres some of a couple of Yellow-faced Whipsnake's either combating or mating....Im guessing combat, thoughts?

I am feeding tonight. Is anyone else? Lets get some pics going, I am defrosting so wont be long. Nom Nom Nom

We have this book by Eric Worrell. It is called 'Things that Sting'. Published 1976. Reprinted 1980,1983. It says on page 21. Quote FROG ' Some frogs exude a whitish fluid from their skin if they are meddled with. This fluid can cause irritation. Green Tree Frogs are the only Australian frog...

Have you any idea what this could be? Mostly grey-green with a red-brown section near the head. Thin and dainty-looking, about 3ft long. It appeared in my back yard this afternoon. I live in Mullumbimby, Northern NSW. I'd be grateful for any ideas. Cheers!

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My friends and I arrived in Iquitos four days before the start of the Margarita Tour. We also stayed an extra day after the completion of the tour. We spent most of these extra days out in the white sand forests of the Allpahuayo Mishana Reserve. This reserve was approximately 45 minutes by...

The Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW) is offering a number of reptiles for disposal through a ballot. The following species have been identified for the Department and are advertised as: 2 Eastern Small-blotched Python (Antaresia maculosa) (juvenile) 1 Jacky Dragon...

Hi all Not sure if anyone out there is a little bit nerdy like me, but I have just started collecting postage stamps (as if i needed yet ANOTHER hobby). :oops: Apart from my main collection, I am starting to build another stamp album entirely devoted to reptiles.. I only have 2 stamps in the...

I hope noone minds if I include some pictures of other (non-herp) animals again :) Ok.. the first animal I came across was a sand monitor- I saw it before I even reached my destination! (by about 30m.. lol). It was crossing the road - in an 80km/hr area - and I had a car behind me, so I...

Hi I am petrified of snakes, so when I find one in my garden I want to know what it is and is it harmful or not. This is the second juvenile we have found in the last 2 weeks. Please could someone tell me what it is. Thanks Nicki

Here are the snakes that were observed at Madre Selva. Most of these snakes were discovered at night. We usually broke into singles or small groups and then walked the forest trails while scanning the surrounding forest floor and vegetation. In general, snakes were really difficult to find...

i heard that a breeder told someone i know a baby snake they bought was a female. but hadnt probed it but they said know it is a female because they say females have longer tails than males. is this true? as this will help me out when i breed net year if it is true. personally i dont think it...

I am wanting some help identifying a snake that I saw at the beach this morning, I didn't get a photo unfortunately! I was in the northern suburbs of Perth and walking down the path to the beach. The snake was about 1.2 meters long and had a light green, almost iridescent body with a...

Published On: 11-20-2009 Source: CNN A crimson-crested woodpecker battles an olive whipsnake on Peru’s Yarapa River Go to Original Article

The Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW) is offering a number of reptiles for disposal through a ballot. The following species have been identified for the Department and are advertised as: 4 - Yellow-faced Whipsnake (Demansia psammophis) 1 - Marsh Snake (Hemiaspis...

Check this out guys! 8 month old yellow faced whip snake eating a FT pinky! OMG it wasn't easy but we got there in the end! Thanks again to Dave, this is the funnest snake i've ever owned!

Today, I visited the cliffs along the Shoalhaven River near Nowra. It was beautiful with temps of about 23C. I found several Yellow-faced Whipsnakes (Demansia psammophis) that were sunning near the edge of the cliffs. Here is the sort of habitat where I encountered the snakes...

Last year we did a hunting trip for wild dogs and pigs. I took a couple of hours out at various times to have a scout around the camp, whilst I found some big browns along the tracks there was very little to get a photo of when I had the camera with me. The lesson is to keep your camera on you...

These are photos from the Dharawal area and Jervis Bay. I visited Jervis Bay last weekend and Dharawal today (Sat 22 Aug). Although this is August and technically winter, the weather has been mild and spring seems to have arrived a little early this year. Many plants are in full flower and a...

August is the final month of winter in Wollongong and it has begun to warm. The weather this weekend was beautiful so I went out for awhile on each day. A few reptiles were out and also enjoying the sunny conditions. I decided to produce a short post of what I photographed as well as include...

The girlfriends parents dog has two clean puncture marks around 15mm apart that definetly resemble a snakebite, however he has shown no signs of illness. I live towards the Southern Highlands in NSW so it is pretty damn cold down this way at the moment and doubt any reptiles would be active as...

Hi all, My grandmother found this snake in her garden on the weekend, seems to be a baby but she freaked out and kinda stabbed it with the shovel. Im having trouble identifing it, can anyone help?

I am hoping that someone else has taken a few 'funny' reptile photos and adds them to this thread. I was at a friend's place on Sunday admiring and taking photos of the snakes. Then they brought out Gibbs and once he saw I was trying for a few close-ups he decided to get close too. I love...

The weather today was mild with a temperture of about 18C. My wife and I decided to go on a picnic. After a last minute change of plans, we decided to go on our usual walk at Royal National Park. We start at Garie Beach and then follow the Great Coast Walk to the Wattamolla area before...

I've just returned from a trip to the Gulf of Carpentaria, north of Mount Isa. I think the highlights were the olive pythons (we found two) and Cryptoblepharus zoticus (Cryptoblepharus is my favourite skink genus), plus the bats. Species marked with an asterisk (*) are ones which I hadn't...

If I've done this right heres a pic of a snake we spotted in the sand dunes of Innes National Park last weekend. We don't know a lot about snakes so have tried to look it up in books etc but still uncertain what type it is. Not a very good pic I'm afraid but you can just see the beautiful...

Went looking for snakes with naivepom and found a couple, though no water pythons :( I quite liked the brown tree snake, I was surprised with how big it was (didn't realise bts's got that big) Could someone also ID the first snake?

I know not everyone is a fan but just thought i'd post to let people know that Bruce George is on Animal Planet tonight at 7:30 in a new series. Looking forward to it

Just putting up a few pics to show you all about the shovel users...This yellowface whipsnake was a victim of being in someones garden ..he was attacked by a garden spade,the man thinking he had killed it ,was surprised and worried 3 days later when it showed itself again ..he then called me to...

Copied from my blog. -- Day seven saw us heading inland, from The Caves on the coast, through Emerald and up to Charters Towers. It was mainly a driving day, but we did find some roadkill along the way. We got some rooms at the Charters Towers pub and then headed out for a night drive...

Hi, all just wanting to see people's most wanted australian python(or already have in some cases) Mine would have to be: 1) Woma 2) Diamond 3) BHP

Firstly, Merry Christmas to everyone! My son, Nicholas, and I just returned from a quick camping trip out to the Warrumbungle National Park near the little town of Coonabarabran, NSW. This park is a 6-hour drive from Wollongong. We try to visit it at least once a year for its excellent...

am going to Eyre Peninsula S.A. over christmas, wondering if anyone might know what sort of specimens one might encounter, tryed googling and etc... with next to no help. any input appreciated.:)

hi, I was at Leura in the Blue Mountains last week and I saw this snake lying in the sun right next to the road. Can anyone identify it for me please thank you from a very newbie

Does anyone else find it strange that in NSW the Asian House Gecko is covered by the licensing system. Are they protected like native reptiles?