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Herp Update: data gaps, Hinesburg first, PARC Amphibian week — April 19, 2022

Posted on April 19, 2022 by

Jim Andrews Posted in education, frogs, herping, salamander, updates

Help us fill in some data gaps for very common species Herpers, we have some embarrassing gaps in our database and maps. There is still one town in Vermont where no one has ever reported a Wood Frog. They are…

Tagged with: data gaps, herping, road search, salamanders, wood frog

Herp Update: Fall Movement of Snapping Turtles – October 5, 2021

Posted on October 5, 2021 by

Jim Andrews Posted in turtles, updates

One type of fall movement of reptiles is the emergence of baby Snapping Turtles (see Pat Perry’s photo below) from their underground nests. Our other common turtle, the Painted Turtle, lays eggs at about the same time in the spring…

Tagged with: data gaps, fall, nesting, snapping turtle, turtles

Stream Salamander in Norwich, and Video

Posted on September 2, 2021 by

Jim Andrews Posted in salamander, updates

Much of the field work we have done this summer has been focused on filling in distribution gaps for Vermont’s three stream or “saturated soil” salamanders. Part of the reason for this is that these species are only rarely reported…

Tagged with: amphibians, data gaps, salamander, stream salamanders, video

Successful Herp Survey in the Northeast Kingdom

Posted on September 7, 2020 by

Jim Andrews Posted in conservation, frogs, herping, salamander, snakes, turtles, updates

Herpers, this past Friday Matt Gorton, Kate Kelly, and I made a hike into Warners Grant near the Canadian border to locate and photograph reptiles and amphibians. Warners Grant has long been the least surveyed area of Vermont as far…

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More on the Rough-skinned Newt and the American Bullfrog and other herp news

Posted on August 8, 2020 by

Jim Andrews Posted in frogs, salamander, updates

Folks, that last video of the American Bullfrog and Rough-skinned Newt was taken out west, not in Vermont. Some further details from Kiley Briggs: “in addition to the Rough-skinned Newt being highly toxic, American Bullfrogs are an invasive species out…

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Newt and American Bullfrog

Posted on August 6, 2020 by

Jim Andrews Posted in amphibians, herping, updates

Herpers, Kiley Briggs forwarded this. It is not our newt. It looks like a Rough-skinned Newt from out west. They are more toxic than our Eastern Newts. Matt Gorton and I were doing some herp survey in Fairfax yesterday. We…

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Current Herp Activity & Videos

Posted on May 28, 2020 by

Jim Andrews Posted in frogs, herping, updates

a note from Jim Herpers, with this warm weather American Toads, American Bullfrogs, and Gray Treefrogs are all starting to chorus. This Friday night’s rains should generate movement of all three of these frogs. It may also generate some movement…

Tagged with: data gaps, frog, Lake Champlain Basin, spring

to the Herpers: Spring Amphibian Update

Posted on May 4, 2020 by

Jim Andrews Posted in amphibians, frogs, herping, salamander

a note from Jim Herpers, the warm weather of last weekend generated scores of reptile and amphibian reports. At our monitoring site in Lincoln (1,400 ft. in elevation in central Vermont), Wood Frog egg masses are mostly old and many…

Tagged with: amphibian eggs, amphibians, atlas, data gaps, frog, salamanders, spring

Support the Vermont Herp Atlas in 2020

Posted on February 24, 2020 by

Kate Kelly Posted in conservation, support, updates

https://www.gofundme.com/f/tvfmw-vermont-reptile-and-amphibian-atlas

Tagged with: community, conservation, data, data gaps, funding, fundraising

to Herpers: catching up, volunteers for data gaps

Posted on April 25, 2019 by

Jim Andrews Posted in amphibians, herping, updates

Herpers, reports are pouring in. Thanks for sending them in. I am still about 50 reports behind, so it will take me a while to catch up. Spring has now arrived statewide. A small group of volunteers joined me to…

Tagged with: data gaps, education, frog, salamanders