JasonL
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THEY ARE.... we're going to have Eulamprus sp. instead of trying to pick between the invisible differences between heatwolei, tympanum and quoyii.
Yes, well there will be E. tenuis as a seperate entity..
THEY ARE.... we're going to have Eulamprus sp. instead of trying to pick between the invisible differences between heatwolei, tympanum and quoyii.
Come on, every Sydney herper should know all the local frogs by call. If you don't , you simply need to get out in the bush more................. I tend to agree that it should be on sight though, otherwise it would make it pretty easy to pick up 5-6 species by winding the window at dams and streams
Yes, well there will be E. tenuis as a seperate entity..
They're certainly tricky buggers to ID. My Eulamprus IDs are always slight, insubstantial, meager, flimsy, weak, doubtful, dubious, questionable, suspect, vague, nebulous, hazy...
Yes, that is part of the reason, you could easily knock up alot of points from Kiama to Forster without leaving the car and in quick time, and this is what I want to avoid, as the aim is to get people out walking, enjoying the bush and people getting a bucket load of points from frog calls will put others off wanting to participate, also it opens up the margin for error even further.
In birding a twitchathon is not about going about the bush. It's about seeing/hearing as many species as possible in the proscribed time. That means going to as many different habitats as possible. Most of the time is spent sitting in a car looking at the bush! The Hunter region is the best birding area for twitchathons in Australia as there are so many habits in close proximity.
I'm game for a herp version, but I think we need to include frogs (and their calls), and have some way of "accrediting" the teams to ensure their ID prowess is up to scratch. I also think like the birdos it should be Australia wide-lets find out where the herping centre is!
eipper;1456239 tenius gets its own...so should leuraensis Cheers said:Yes they will Scott, I will have to go through and make the lists but the idea is to be able to id it from a quick sighting, no touching, and half the team need to see the animal for it to count. I am aming to make this weekend "user friendly" so Mr Joe average herper can have a go and be rewarded for the amount of effort put in and not miss out to much because he couldn't ID every skink, frog he caught a glance of, there will still be plenty of herps to keep the better herpers interested and buisy anyway
Fair enough but it aint a 'twitching' exercise as birdos would know it where every species no matter how rare or how difficult to spot/hear is worth one point.....
Sounds a bit like a herping treasure hunt!
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