Surveying in Congree Swamp National Monument
Pierson Hill, Kristine Grayson, Dave Stroupe, JD Willson, and Mike Dorcas meet up with Davidson Herp Lab alum, Shane Lindsay, and the folks he is working with at the Savannah River Ecology Lab (Whit Gibbons, Tracey Tuberville and Kurt Buhlmann). Along with our local guide Marcus, we helped the SREL folks for a day with a herpetological survey of one of the parks on their National Park Inventory project:
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The group
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Beautiful Swamp Habitat
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Eumeces laticeps
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Walking the boardwalk
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Well hidden coverboards
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Checking coverboards
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Keying a Eumeces
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Tracey, Mike, & Whit identifying a frog
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Catching critters
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Nerodia erithrogaster
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Bufo terrestris
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Desmognathus auriculatus
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Agkistrodon piscivorus
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Kristine and a cottonmouth
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Agkistrodon piscivorus swimming
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Rana palustris
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A Barred Owl
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Storeria dekayi
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