by Rowland | Dec 1, 2013 | Guatemala, Notes from the field
And so the snake haul continues… having spent what seems like years walking around the forests of Laguna del Tigre National Park at Las Guacamayas hoping to find another boa (Boa constrictor) it finally happened. I saw a juvenile boa when I first came here in...
by Rowland | Nov 19, 2013 | Notes from the field
Surprising serpents show up The last few days have found a few interesting, and rarely seen, species of snakes appear in and around Las Guacamayas. The first was a swamp snake (Tretanorhinus nigroluteus) that was found by one of the workers in the water down at the...
by Rowland | Nov 10, 2013 | Indigo Expeditions, Notes from the field
Although we are at the end of the rainy season, and I expected there to be some water around, I did not expect that there would be so much and that it would still be raining so much (we had 65mm of rain last night!). I certainly wasn’t prepared for the Rio San Pedro...
by Rowland | Nov 6, 2013 | Indigo Expeditions, Notes from the field, Species profiles
With young toads roaming the streets of Flores at night, I was excited to get to Las Guacamayas to see if the same was true in the forest. The first night walk proved this to be the case. We found many juvenile toads, both cane toads (Rhinella marinus) and Gulf Coast...
by Rowland | Jul 28, 2013 | Species profiles
Tropidodipsas fasciatus. New record of snail-eating snake found in Guatemala. On the banks of the River Sacluc opposite Las Guacamayas lies an area of swamp and scrub that until the first Indigo expeditions had not been surveyed for reptiles and amphibians before. The...
