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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A subadult ocelated lizard in thermoregulation. Hopefully he will grow to over 22 cm from snout to vent, and his head will become massive, with jaws powerfull enough to smash those big snails and beetles 🕷🐌 I hesitated labelling as nudity, because he is not dressed 😂

Ocelated lizard sunbathing on small stones.
He is mostly green with blue spots on the sides (the ocelli) surrounded by black and yellow spots on the back, also surrounded by black

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Juan Rodríguez Pueyo @rodripueyojoan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Mireu quina serp verda (Malpolon monspessulanus) que havia quedat atrapada en un pou i hem pogut alliberar. Maquíssima 🐍 Les serps estan protegides i compleixen un paper clau dins la cadena tròfica!

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

🐢 European pond terrapin - this one goes in to the category of a real-life Pokemon 😂 They are really beautiful when we find one that is not all covered with mud. Wild and free, in situ photo.

A terrapin sunbathing on a log. It's eyes are pure white with black pupil. It's head, legs and carapace are all black and fine spotted with bright yellow all over.

The log is floating on the water surface, and you can see reeds coming out of the water.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🐍🦎 European glass lizard, Pseudopus apodus - they grow up to 140 cm, this one was about 120 cm. Archive photo from Croatia, 2024

A glass lizard basking among green herbs. It's head and neck are yellow and turn progressively brownish towards the body.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Bluesky can always have one more 🐍 🤩 Asp viper, Vipera aspis

An asp viper crawling among leaf litter. In spring males actively crawl around trying to pick up the scent of a female to mate with.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🪶 Wood pidgeon, Columba palumbus. Normaly they fly when you're this near, but this one built the nest just over a dust trail, and he is used to having lots of people passing by. A trustfull fellow...

A wood pigeon on a tree branch, looking straight to the camera. There's blue sky in the background.

It's head and body are mostly grey with a buff brown breast and white wings clips. The bill is pink and the eyes are black with a yellow ring around them.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

🐍 A western whip snake heating up in the shrubs. Hierophis viridiflavus Western Switzerland

A snake sunbathing in the vegetation.
It's body is black with yellow spots and bars on the sides. Eye is yellow with a black round pupil.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

🪶 A Red kite came close enough to take some nice shots, it was curious to inspect my camera. Doubs, France

A Red kite flying against the blue sky. It has whitish head, rufous body, yellow eyes with a black pupil, yellow legs and bill.
The forked tail is characteristic, they twist it in flight when they want to change direction.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

🦎🐍🐸Common toads come to the water in spring to breed. These are most likely males waiting for females. A Slow worm, Anguis fragilis, was swimming and sunbathing among the reeds, an uncommon sigting as they are largely nocturnal and I was not aware they appreciated swimming. Doubs, france Avril 2026

A common toad, some cm below the water surface checking if danger is clear before comming to the surface to breathe.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

🐍 First sand lizard for me this year, a juvenile, sunbathing on a rock. Lacerta agilis Doubs, France

Juvenile sand lizard sunbathing on a rock with lichens. It is brownish all over, with a darker tone of brown on the back whitish occeli surrounded by black on the sides.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🐍 Four-lined snake, Elaphe quatorlineata Photo from archive, Croatia, May 2024. Photo isn't awesome, but shows well how big these guys can grow. I estimate this individual around 1.8m.

Four-lined snake climbing a tree in dense forest.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Mating ritual of asp viper, the male advances over the female with jerky movements and tongue flicking. Filmed in Western Switzerland

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

🐍 Male fights of asp vipers over a female. They interlace and push each other to the sides or to the ground, the stronger male gets to mate the female. No bites ever occur. Photos taken today in western Switzerland.

Two male asp vipers raising their heads and pushing each other. The stronger gets to mate the female.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

🦎 Several photos of the same individual of a Common wall lizard, Podarcis muralis, taken with different light angles. The colour of the flanks changes from light to dark brown to blackish and the back from sandy to greyish, light green and dark green. Amazing little creatures !!

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Subadult male green lizard just out of hibernation.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

🐍 season's greetings 🐍 Herp season is starting and asp vipers and other herps are active again. Wild and free. Today in western Switzerland.

Asp viper among leaf litter with it's head slightly raised. The side of the heat is whitish with a diagonal contrasting black stripe from the eye to the base of the neck. The eye is golden yellow with a vertical pupil.

Asp viper yawning and showing the large teeth used to inoculate venom at the front of the upper jaw. Note that these are covered by a protective skin tissue so that the teeth themselves are not visible.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

🦎 The amazing Moroccan spiny-tailed lizard, Uromastyx nigriventris. Colours are very variable, this was one of the cuttest I came across. They eat mainly vegetables, but also some invertebrates when they have the opportunity. I include a photo of the habitat, I wonder how can they thrive ?

A big a chumky lizard with an upright head in the middle of a rocky terrain. Its head is mainly dark with some orange spots, the legs are also dark. The body is thick and a mixture of bright green, yellow and orange. The tail is mainly orange with dark circles.

A landscape of flat open rocky desert with some distant bushes and low trees in the distance and a bright blue sky overhead.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

🐸 Brongersma's toad Barbarophryne brongersmai Morocco You have some beautiful eyes, you know? I love the green spots that look like lichens or algae.

A small toad with brownish ruff base colour that is nearly the same as the rocks where it is crouched. It has some irregular green spots on the face, legs and back that look loke lichens. The eyes are also green, with an horizontal oblong pupil.

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𓂀 𓆗Jay𓆗𓂀 @kitchenraptorj.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Why didn't anyone tell me there was legless gecko DLC available on Earth ver 5.0 (I know we're technically on version 6.0 cause of our current extinction event but we can skip formalities cause holy shit there's sneckos!!) #reptile #🦎 #leglessgeckos #lizards #snecko

Pygopodidae - Wikipedia https://share.google/sluzTuYOoWZiNt6vk

Closeup of Wrigby! (Not a snake!) : r/geckos https://share.google/dTQWmdV0FPpdKXHJj

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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Frogs have regional accents, apparently. Who knew? 😜 #herps

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

🪶 Black-crowned chagra Chagra senegalus

Little bird perched on a branch. There are many other branches around and some long green leaves in the background.

The bird belly is grey, the back is brown, and the wings are dark brown with a rusty brown patch. The head is black with a thick and very contrasting white stripe above the eyes. The bill is black, somewhat thick, and long.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

🪶Trumpeter finch Bucanetes githagineus South of Assa, Morocco These birds are called like this because their call is exactly the sound of a party trumpet (see photo). They inhabit desert and semi desert, but need water in their flying range. It was a new species for me, I had never seen one before.

A trumpeter finch posed on barren earth, with some grains by its feet. It is a small bird, coloured brown with some pinkish tinges and a thick rosy red bill.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

In a 200m lake full of tree frog tadpoles (cf last post), there are often others looking for the easy meal... in this case, Viperine snakes, Natrix maura. I saw more than 12 coming to the surface to breathe. Viperine 🐍 are called like this because their pattern and behaviour often mimicks vipers

The head of a viperine snake protruding from the water surface

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🐸 Mediterranean tree frog Hyla meridionalis Tiny baby, just out of water! About 1 cm long, maybe less Photographed in Southern France in August 2024.

A tiny tree frog about 1 cm long sitting on a leaf of a small plant.

It is overall brown with a darker stripe running from the nostril through the eye and over the front leg. The throat is whitish.

You can see some other leaves of the same plant and a blurred background.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🪶 Spotless starling Sturnus unicolor

A black starling perched on a tree branch. There are few green leaves on the tip of the branch and a pink wall in the background. The starling feathers are black all over, the legs are pink, and the bill is yellow with some grey on the base.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🦊 Souvenir from Assa, Morocco. Dromadaires in a pick-up truck. In Morocco, they call them "our 4x4" (and they mean the dromedaires 😂)

A grey 4x4 pickup truck is parked in a street. There's a building with closed doors and a store behind it.

Inside the pickup, there are two dromadaires sitting in the back.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🦎 Tiny little salamander, just about 6 cm long

Baby salamander black with huge yellow spots fusing together to form stripes. Walking on fallen dry oak leaves.

Baby salamander black with huge yellow spots fusing together to form stripes. Walking on green moss.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

🦎 It took some searching 👀 but I found them. Fire salamander S. salamandra terrestris According to the legend, fire salamanders would be able to resist and extinguish fire. It would be cool if it were true, but it's just a myth 😂. Photographed in Western Switzerland.

A fire salamander is all black with huge bright yellow irregular spots on the head, body and legs. It is walking on the forest floor covered with fallen leaves.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

🐍🐍 The (not so) Common Adder... at least in western Europe, adder populations have been declining for the last 30 years. I photographed it the month of May some years ago in eastern France. I think it was a pregnant female. Unlike most snakes, vipers do not lay eggs, they bear live young.

A female adder coiled with the head resting over its body. It has a dark brown zig-zag pattern all over its body, from the neck to the tail. The basic colour is light brown. The eye colour is reddish. It has an inverted V-shaped marking on the top of the head and a dark line that goes in diagonal from the back of the eye to the corner of the mouth.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🪶 The beautiful greenfinch Carduelis chloris

A greenfing perched on a small branch with blurred background. As all finches, it has a thick and powerfull bill adapted to break and eat seeds. Its body is a beautiful mixture of olive green and grey tinges, with a bright yellow trailing edge of the wings and rump. The eye region is black giving a masked apearance.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🪶 A black woodpecker doing his thing. This is the biggest woodpecker in Europe, reaching 46 cm length and 73 cm wingspan, nearly the size of a carrion crow. The sound of its drumming is described as a "machine gun salvo" in my field guide 😂 and it is audible up to 4 Km. Dryocopus martius

A black woodpecker perched on a vertical tree. It is all black with a bright red spot on the upper part of the head. The bill is long and there are some holes in the wood just in front of the bill.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🪶 I just love Squacco herons, they look all brown on the ground and then nearly all white when they take flight. Ardeola ralloides

A lake where you can see blue water in the distance, but covered with green floating vegetagion in the foreground. A squacco heron is taking flight, with its long light brown neck, pure white wings and belly, and yellow dangling legs.

A lake where you can see blue water in the distance, but covered with green floating vegetagion in the foreground. A squacco heron is poised on low water, its legs underwater and hidden by the vegetation.

The heron is all light brown with a very long and thick neck and a black dagger-like bill.

A squacco heron in a crouched position among some floating nenuphars on a lake. It looks all brown, with only the white belly hardly visible. The neck is retracted and looks much shorter than it really is. They do this when hunting, so that they can suddenly extend the neck and snach prey with the bill.

A squacco heron is taking flight, with its long light brown neck, pure white wings and belly. It looks mainly pure white in flight.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🪶 Little egret, Bubulcus ibus Flying before sunset in the Camargue, France

A little egret flying with blue water in the background. The low sun before sunset gives a warm yellowish tone to the otherwise all white feathers of the little egret.

The all black eyes, bill and the long legs contrast with the white feathers. The feet and toes are bright yellow.

It flies with its long neck retracted and bent in an S shape and the long legs stretched behind the body.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🐍 Asp viper, Vipera aspis Always a pleasure to see them! Photo from my archive, I don't think they're still active around here.

An asp viper coiled over some dry twigs abd dry leaves. It has brown colour (just like the leaves) with black transversr bars on its back.

The head scales are smaller than those over the body, except for the one big scale over the eye. The eye is golden yellow with a vertical slit pupil.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

🪶 Grey heron closeups Ardea cinerea

A grey heron, woth a long, snake-like neck, and a huge bill, much bigger,than its head. It has big, yellow eyes and a dark "eyebrow" over the eye that continues backwards in a long drop-down black prnqmzntal feather.

It is poised in high grass and has its wings half open.

A grey heron front view, looking directly at the camera with its yellow eyes.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

#AddOcean 🐙🪶 A couple of Audouin's gulls in the mediterranean sea coast. Larus audouinii

A couple of Audouin's gulls by the sea shore. There are very small waves and ripples on the dark blue water. The gulls are poised with their feet on the water by knee level. Their head, neck, breast and belly are whites, the wings are grey, the tail is black. The eyes form a black spot on the white head. The bills and legs are dark red. They have a slender build and are more elegant than most gulls.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

🪶 I love terns. Here is a common tern bringing a fish to the chicks back at the nest. Sterna hirundo

A tern flying with a small fish in its beak against a blue sky. The black upperhead contrasts with the white face and neck. The chest and belly are grey. The undertail and underwings are white, but with black wingtips.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

🦎 a hungry baby western green lizard with a bug. Lacerta bilineata I don't know what bug is

A small green lizard holding a bug in its mouth.
There is some dry leaf litter around it, and some grass and green leaves from a bush casting shade on the lizard body.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

A male Teal, the smallest European duck, about 2/3 the size of a Mallard. Always a beauty to my eyes!! Anas crecca

A small duck swimming. The water reflects brownish and blueish tones from the environment.
Thr duck body is mainly grey, speckled with white, with yellow undertail and a white stripe on the wing. The head is rounded brown with a huge green patch covering the eyes, and a small bill.

The duck gead is also reflected on the water surface, as in a mirror.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words. The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🐍 Meet the Slow worm, Anguis fragilis. Actually not a worm... and faster than a worm! It's a limbless lizard that feeds on slugs and other invertebrates. You can tell them from snakes because they can close their eyelids and have visible ear openings. They don't need so much heat as most lizards.

Snake-like limbless lizard crawling on rocky ground. Brown coloured all iver with a thin black line along the spine. The rocks have various sizes and are grey.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🪶 Bittern, Botaurus stellaris With its perfect camouflage in reed beds. I've seen two explanations for the name stelaris, one that it has specked plumage, other that it looks at the stars (like in photo) I like very much the male call, which goes like BOOM, and is called Booming. Photo croped :(

A Bittern is a huge bird from the same family as the herons. It has green legs, and a very large and long neck, which is all striped in white and brown. When scared, it puts its head up pointing the sky, and the stripes on the neck look just the same as the dry reeds around it.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🪶 White-tailed eagles Haliaeetus albicilla It is the biggest eagle in Europe, its wingspan can reach 2,4m. As in all big raptors, you can see clearly the 'fingers' at the wingtips. When they arrived, all the ducks took flight. Must have been a coïncidence 😂

An eagle flying against a grey sky, seen from the side. It is flapping its broad wings. All feathers are brown, except for the tail, that is white. The big and heavy bill is open. One of the tallons is suspended under the tail.

A couple of eagles flying, both giving a cry, with their bills open. Both have their wings wide open, brown plumage with white tails. One is seen head on from below, the other see from the side.

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WonderingChamaleon @herpsandbirds.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

🐸 After suggestion of @theonetruecat, I present you the magnificent Green Toad, Bufotes viridis. Photographed in the Peloponese, Greece. #toadalytuesday #Bufotesviridis

A chumky toad, white and marbled with green irregular spots. There are orange markings above its head. It is sitting on green grass with some yellow flowers.

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