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She Turned Me Into A Newt

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Newts are salamanders, or, more precisely, newts are aquatic salamanders with a land-living juvenile phase. That is, all newts are salamanders but not all salamanders are newts. Newts can be found in Asia, Europe, and North America.

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Tri-colored Herons on the water front of La Paz.

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This one caught a nice fat salamander. Once the tide has gone out, then they hunt for the many fine meals that are hidden under the surface of the mud. They stalk carefully, slinking along in a crouch…then probing deeply with their bill.

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A Gray Tree Frog in the Garden

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He saw his first Garter Snake a couple of weeks ago on one such exploration and he is always excited to see Red-backed Salamanders , Cabbage White Butterflies , and Eastern Chipmunks. But what we found hiding amid the Black-eyed Susans on Sunday was clearly his favorite creature of the year. Gray Tree Frog.

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German Birding Blitz

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Oh yeah… I was able to find two species frogs, two species of salamanders, two species of lizards and one species of snake, so I was even able to get my herp fix in ! The original salamander – the Fire Salamander. Thanks for reading, hopefully I will be able to post some more stories in the near future.

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What makes a Great Patch?

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The bugs and snakes and salamanders were pretty great too. All four seasons had something to enjoy, from impressive neotropical migration shows in the fall and spring, to scrub filled with sparrows in the winter, to nesting Prothonotary Warblers and Yellow-breasted Chats in the summer. And it was no more than 10 minutes from my door.

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Beginning a Birding Blog

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Talk about conservation, salamanders, pikas…but I think it is important to not get too far off track. If you want to do a post on the screech-owls that live next to your house, then that’s fantastic. If you want to talk about something besides birds, that’s great.

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SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer, Part Deux

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No frog, toad, or salamander ever was our forebear. No nonhuman alive today belongs to the same species as some ancestor of humans. Modern fishes radically differ from the fish who was the last common ancestor of fishes and humans. Although we have reptilian ancestors, we didn't descend from reptiles or any species alive today (105).