What is your favorite NATIVE reptile?

I know we always poll each other on what our favorite ball python morph, or favorite giant python is.....but what about at home.

What is your favorite reptile that is NATIVE to your home area?

My favorite has to be the Eastern Fence Lizard. It is one of the coolest animals in LA to observe.....and one of the most beautiful too IMO.

Share a picture too if you can find one ;)

http://danielhillreptiles.com/FIELD%...celizard10.jpg

Garter snakes.. LOL

Pretty much the only snake/reptile in my area (that I'm aware of), although rubber boas supposedly live around here.

i love green anoles. such a simple and common little lizard but it just brings a huge smile to my face to see one scamper across the window sill or across the sidewalk in front of me.

i know a lot of my affection for them is probably because a green anole was the first herp i ever had for a pet when i was younger. my family went to a cabin in south carolina for a family reunion and there were these green lizards everywhere! (we were from virginia--no anoles.) my sister and i each caught one and brought them home for pets. later when i moved here (georgia) for college i got a pair and my love for herps was rekindled.

here is a photo of an anole i rescued on new year's eve several years back. she came down the chimney (i assume to get warm) but burned all her little toes on the hot coals. :( i took her in and all her toes healed fine, but without the last joint where the sticky pad was. she got around fine and i adapted her cage to be non-climber friendly. :)

http://mlededee.com/photos/kids/gallery//01.jpg

I adore Texas Brown snakes. I'm hoping to catch some this summer when I learn to field herp!

http://sarah.digeratihost.com/images/dekays01.jpg

They come in red, too!

Brown Snakes here too!

Sarah, I hope we find a good number of them when we go field herping soon. Then we can propogate the world with them! Muahaha!

Bullsnake. Hands down the best for size, attitude and personality. And the colors and pattern are great.

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

I know we always poll each other on what our favorite ball python morph, or favorite giant python is.....but what about at home.

What is your favorite reptile that is NATIVE to your home area?

My favorite has to be the Eastern Fence Lizard. It is one of the coolest animals in LA to observe.....and one of the most beautiful too IMO.

Share a picture too if you can find one ;)

http://danielhillreptiles.com/FIELD%...celizard10.jpg

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I love those things, me and my brother had 2 for a long time, crazy and lazy. I'd say my favorite would have to be bullfrogs only because you can go to a single pond and catch like 50. When i was tiny, id go to the pond on the golf course i lived next to and come home with my shirt, socks, and shoes filled with giant bullfrogs.

My favorite hands down is the Eastern Fox snake. It's a large, semi-aquatic ratsnake found here by the Great Lakes. They're very impressive to see in person, but highly protected now. They're on the verge of being listed as endangered :( I wish I could work something out with DNR where they give me a permit to keep and breed them, and they release the offspring back in the wild I produce :(

I love the black rat snakes. I used to occasssionally see them in the marsh, in my college years. (almost had one in my boots, to boot) All that black irridensence is just beautiful.

Although not a reptile, we used to have these cool green tree frogs that would come sit on our windows (in GA) at night and catch the bugs as they were attracted to the light. We had two for at least a year, and I was sad when they didn't return.

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Originally Posted by SatanicIntention

Brown Snakes here too!

Sarah, I hope we find a good number of them when we go field herping soon. Then we can propogate the world with them! Muahaha!

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LOL, our evil plot is exposed!
I can't wait...and they should be easy to find, from what I hear.

I love the eastern timber rattlesnake. Unfortunately I have not seen any in the wild hereabouts, but I know they're still out there.

http://home.alltel.net/tesinc/EndSpecies.htm
I also love the garter snakes that make their home in the basement and inside the walls of our house. You can even find their shed skins in the attic crawl space!
For amphibians; it is tough! I adore our native frogs (leos, greens, bulls, the treefrogs) but my fave is the wood frog. They are just awesome and every spring I hike back in the woods and check out their vernal pools. I love toads too, and the spotted salamanders and others.. Ah I can't pick!

I love fox snakes, but they aren't native to here. so i would have to say snapping turtles! people think they are ugly and mean etc etc, i think they are awsome tanks, that need to be understood not hated, but thats just me!:D

~mike

Indigos and Black Racers.
I love them. I've always been facinated by black racers, so fast, so elegant then they're gone in an instant.
Native reptiles is what got me interested in the ones I keep. Love them all!
Wolfy

I love garter snakes. I just think they are cute, and I have a bunch around my house.

Heres mine. I love finding copperheads.
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...ng/copper3.jpg

My second would have to be all finding all the different salamanders we have around here.

It's a tie between black rat snakes and blue racers, though I've never actually seen any wild around here. Snake wise all I've seen are garters and watersnakes for the most part. I plan to do alot more snake searching this spring and summer.

I love Cooperheads. I hope to one day actually have one in my collection. (that would be the one and only hot).

And I just adore Eastern Black Indigo's ( another one I will have in my collection )

Here is my second favorite to see out and about around here:

http://danielhillreptiles.com/FIELD%...oxturtle16.jpg

mine would be the Blanding's Turtle as they are a rare find here in mi

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mine would be the Blanding's Turtle as they are a rare find here in mi

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I spent last summer researching blanding's in IL. they are awsome little guys to watch and have real personalities.

~mike

Rosy Boas for Native Californian Reptile...

As for nation wide, I can't decide.

Trans pecos copper heads, and ratsnakes, Brownsnakes, WDB rattlers!!:rockon:

One of my favorite reptiles that live aroud here are Black Rat Snakes, heres a picture of one that lives in my basement. this guy is completely wild!


The other wild snakes that I enjoy seeing around here are, eastern chain kings, hognose snakes, pine snakes, ringnecked, garter, ribbon, and green snakes. :) http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n...g?t=1171909474

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One of my favorite reptiles that live aroud here are Black Rat Snakes, heres a picture of one that lives in my basement. this guy is completely wild!


The other wild snakes that I enjoy seeing around here are, eastern chain kings, hognose snakes, pine snakes, ringnecked, garter, ribbon, and green snakes. :) http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n...g?t=1171909474

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When you come down to Anauak we ned to go heping in the swamps!!:rockon: Lots of snakes and gators.

My favourite natives would be Bloods, Retics but I love sea turtles most of all especially Leatherbacks.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...4/5/Babies.gif

Prairie Rattlesnake (Kansas)

i found out about them when i took one in that this ladies kids were just going to let die. so i got it from her and found out what it was keeped it for a few months then released it at a local park called belle lsland as soon as it hit the little pond you seen it chaseing fish in the water was cool.

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Originally Posted by wildlifewarrior

I spent last summer researching blanding's in IL. they are awsome little guys to watch and have real personalities.

~mike

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I've got to admit my favorite in this neck of the woods are the black rat snakes.

The ones down near my parents are abundant and fearless. As a kid we used to catch them at my grandmother's house - and both those and a hognose caught at Berkley Springs are directly responsible for my early love of snakes.

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My favourite natives would be Bloods, Retics but I love sea turtles most of all especially Leatherbacks.

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GREEEEEEN with envy!

Trade you backyards?

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

GREEEEEEN with envy!

Trade you backyards?

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Haha.. just few of the good things about living in the tropics.

I`m quite amazed myself at just how common retics are. They could be found in urban areas, I almost steped on a roadkill once as i steped out of my car and it was in a housing area, although it was near a golf course.

And I forgot to mention water monitors, they`re absolutely in every river and drains!!

As for the leatherbacks, it`s sad that their number is still on the decline despite conservation efforts. A study done at a sanctuary showed that in the last decade, a majority of females were hatched and fewer landings are recorded each year.

My favorite would have to be the snappers and water mocs. They are everywhere here, except right now...too darn cold!

I love redbelly snakes (Storeria occipitomaculata) which is Minnesotas smallest snake maxing out at just over 10 inches. Otherwise I like little eastern hognoses, that pig face is to die for.

-Jason

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My favorite would have to be the snappers and water mocs. They are everywhere here, except right now...too darn cold!

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Sorry man but no watter mocs in NY. Norther water snakes which can be very dark and very similar but no mocs north of southeastern virginia.

~mike

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Originally Posted by wildlifewarrior

Sorry man but no watter mocs in NY. Norther water snakes which can be very dark and vary similar but no mocs north of southeastern virginia.

~mike

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Haha, sorry man...just a local name I guess. I do know if you get bit by them you get sick for a day or two. I know that one for a personal fact. :(

Northern massasaugas are pretty cool, but rare. We have some of those here and there. I guess my favorite snake around here would be probably be a Red bellied Racer (I think that's what they are called), but they are impossible to keep due to the fact that they mostly eat slugs and baby frogs. Fast little buggers! They rise up half of their body off the ground when the move. Very neat to watch.

Favorite species in Nebraska is the Copperhead. Favorite I have caught would be the Black Rat Snake. Hes a couple pics of the one I caught up the road

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http://pic15.picturetrail.com/VOL591.../175854241.jpg
http://pic15.picturetrail.com/VOL591.../175854200.jpg

I've found that the Black Rats in the Nebraska/Iowa area seem to have the red/orange/pink color on them.

Thats a hard one i love em all .
Out of the uk lizards ive always had a soft spot for the slow worm but the sand lizards are just too cool :) , out of our snakes its a tie between the adder and the smooth snake with the Grass snake coming in a very close second place :)

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Originally Posted by LadyOhh

Rosy Boas for Native Californian Reptile...

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I'm with Heather...especially since rosies are from like RIGHT HERE with numerous different localities within 15 minutes drive of home...