Some WILD geckos from the West Australian Goldfields.

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I managed to locate a few "rare in captivity" species out on a work trip so I thought I'd include it on here. Since vertebralis has been smuggled out of Australia now, I guess they won't be rare for much longer.

I spent a week working out in the west australian goldfields region. I managed to get out a few nights and find some reptiles, in particular was Nephrurus vertebralis, a target species for me. Yes, it's just the same as a skinny levis, but it's actually a separate species...

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Fortunately I didn't drive all that way just to see it, I found some other nice critters as well.
There was other stuff out there. Diplodactylus granariensis and pulcher were relatively common. It was nice to see some fat little Rhynchoedura ornata as well. Found a few Nephrurus milli too.

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D. granariensis


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R. ornata

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D. pulcher


More photos of each species have been uploaded here:
Henry Cook's Photo Galleries at pbase.com under the "recent" category in "profile"

The full report is here:

Field Herp Forum • View topic - Goldfields herpin' (Australian thread).


Cheers!

-H
 
GeckoHunter

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Wow! some amazing photos there!
(I hope you entered one into next year's calendar comp!)

Looks like you had an amazing time in WA. :)
 
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I'm still in WA! I'm living in Perth... hopefully this summer I manage to find a few more local gecko species.

-H
 
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Honey

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Beautiful pictures. I looked at your gallery too, lots of interesting critters. You take nice photos. :)
 
knobfan

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Great share, looking forward to seeing vertebralis available on the marking. Makes me want to get into other aussies other than knobs as well.
 
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Amazing photos and photo albom.Thank you.It's not just a pictures , it's art .I tryed to potograph animals in wild , but never had any close success with light , positions , ect like you . I'd just say EXCELLENT !What kind camera do you use ?
 
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siouxie said:
henry, always keen to have a go at overseas people, isn't this bloke your best friend? or is it just what he says?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...17/3069019.htm


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I wasn't aware I was having a go at "overseas people".
Probably not the place to discuss this but seeing as you've posted it...
What he did was stupid and he got caught. I don't condone what he did, but he's still a nice bloke. He doesn't get any sympathy from me though!


GenaVorn: thanks for the comments about my photos. I've worked pretty hard on them. I use a Nikon D300 with a 90mm macro. Most gecko shots are lit with a slave flash and the inbuilt flash.

-Henry

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yvbull said:
This link isn't working, can you re post the link.
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I don't know where it is. I can give you the general gist though. A friend of mine was caught in Qld with a heap of animals he'd collected. I can't even begin to tell you how stupid this was, but as you probably know some people can't help themselves. Maybe this whole exercise has taught him some restraint?

The other bloke was caught with a mob of stuff from the Pilbara, serendipitously close to the big "wild expo" thats held in Sydney every year. Perhaps he wanted to show off some wild animals... it is called the wild expo?

Neither bloke was collecting species not already in captivity.
 
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Geck82

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Awesome pics Henry, it would have been a real treat to see that vertebralis, one of my favorites.
 
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