Field herping Honduras

My wife and I just returned from our honeymoon in Honduras this last week. It was an incredible and exhausting adventure that took us from the edge of rivers to the tops of mountains and even out to a small island in the Caribbean in search of endemic birds, deadly snakes, and large cats.

I will slowly released photos as we process them for our business and release them there first but here is a sneak peak of things to come!

Species included on this trip: Central American Coral Snake, False fer de lance, Brown Racer, Hogg Island Boa, Northern Cat-eyed Snake, Red-eyed Tree Frog, Smokey Jungle Frog, Southern Leopard Frog, Mexican Tree Frog, Crested Forest Toad, 6 Anole species, Striped Basilisk, Spiny-tailed Iguana, and more.

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Cheers


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Wow! Now that's a honeymoon. Thanks for sharing

It was a great experience. Always fun sharing passions with those you love!

Very nice! Did the BC in the first pic get a piece of anyone? LOL, looks like he would like to!

Yep my wife was on the receiving side of her first snake bite. Nice one to get a hit from too!


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Thank you for sharing your views into nature with us. Hope wifey will be ok.:gj::gj:

hehe she's fine. She had a blast, and is excited for finding more snakes in the wild.

On a side note: For those who travel into central and south America, it is of the utmost importance to realize the mimicry of the tropics is on an entirely different level compared to what we see in the united states. The Coral snake : Honduran milk snake mimicry is so well and so perfect that there is no way to know which one you are looking at if you were to flip it under a log. There is a best guess scenario thing - but even that is wrong. The coral snake, is without doubt, the most potent of the venomous serpents in Central America. The man who runs the lodge we stayed at, is the only person in that region that has survived a bite from the Coral Snake.

To distinguish between coral vs Honduran milk, you need to examine the scales located between the eye and nostril. If there are only 2 scales, you have the coral snake (see image above and look carefully). If you have 3 scales, you are looking at an Honduran milk snake :-)

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Sneak peak! Spiny-tailed Iguana, Cayos cochos minor caye


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Red-eyed Tree Frog
Canon EOS 7D Mark II
1/125s f/18.0 at 100.0mm iso200

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Hogg Island Boa (Pink Island Boa) - Threatened Species
Canon EOS 6D
1/125s f/8.0 at 105.0mm iso3200

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Northern Cat-eyed Snake
Canon EOS 7D Mark II
1/80s f/14.0 at 24.0mm iso400

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Central American Coral Snake
Canon EOS 7D Mark II
1/200s f/11.0 at 100.0mm iso400
*The difference between the Central America Coral Snake (Deadliest snake in central America) and the Honduran Milk Snake is only found in the scales between the eyes and nostril (2 on the coral, 3 on the milk), as well as the teeth structure inside the mouth. These snakes are incredible hard to distinguish. All tri-colored snakes we encountered were always treated as Coral Snakes - this was the only one I handled in hand to get the ID shot that you see here.

Awesome trip and pics!! That hog island looks like it has a real nice attitude haha