herpsandbirds
Herps and Birds (and More)
Hey there, I'm Hideo, a zoologist, with my boyfriend Paxon, a wildlife biologist, living in the SE United States. Sharing the beauty of herps and birds, as well as fishes and invertebrates.
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Hey y'all, Paxon and I had a week off, and we just got back from birdwatching Central and coastal Texas. Will be back to blogging cool animals this Monday. 
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Spotted Owlet (Athene brama), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, India
photograph by Rajamanohar Stephen
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Egyptian Grasshopper aka Egyptian Locust (Anacridium aegyptium), family Acrididae, Italy
photograph by Mariano Orsola
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Alpine Longhorn Beetle (Rosalia alpina), family Cerambycidae, Croatia
photograph by Medo Beetles (@medo.beetles)
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Montezuma Quail (Cyrtonyx montezumae), male, family Odontophoridae, order Galliformes, Davis Mountains State Park, West TX, USA
photograph by Keith Turpin
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O’Shaugnessy’s Galliwasp (Mesoamericus bilobatus), family Diploglossidae, San José, Costa Rica
Top 2 photos - juvenile; Bttm 2 photos - adult
photographs by Diego Aviles
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Pacific Bluetail Skink (Emoia caeruleocauda), family Scincidae, Kandidiri Island, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Photograph by Mala Adi Arul
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Ryuku Island Pit Viper aka Hime Habu (Ovophis okinavensis), family Viperidae, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
Venomous.
Photograph by Koh Ke Han
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Forest Skinks (Sphenomorphus spp.), family Scincidae, New Guinea
Probably 2 different species
photographs by Mehd Halaouate
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Another bird
Got any idea what it is?
Really struggling to identify it lol
Found in the midwest
American Robins (Turdus migratorius), family Turdidae, order Passeriformes
The spotty one is a juvenile.
American Robin Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
American Robin | Audubon Field Guide
American robin - Wikipedia
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Straw-necked Ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis), family Threskiornithidae, order Pelicaniformes, Australia
Photograph by Rod Harris
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Large Frogmouth (Batrachostomus auritus), parent with chick, family Podargidae, order Podargiformes, Malaysia
photograph by Yfang Lim
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Fire-tailed Myzornis (Myzornis pyrrhoura), family Paradoxornithidae, order Passeriformes, Bhutan
photograph by Hemant Kothawade
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Travancore Tortoise (Indotestudo travancorica), family Testudinidae, Western Ghats, India
photograph via: Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises of India
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Goeldi's Frog (Fritziana goeldii), adult with eggs, family Hemiphractidae, endemic to SE Brazil
The female glues her eggs onto a sticky pad on her back and carries them until the are near hatching. After about 19 days, she places them into water in a bromeliad, and the tadpole hatch soon thereafter.
photograph via: Nunes-de-Almeida et al.
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