i hope it's ok for me to make two requests for critters from [x] place in one post (otherwise i suppose you'd have to kill me...)
for my friend i'm going to be seeing soonish i'd like to request some critters from florida! and for my me and also because i don't see this represented too often i'd like to request some critters from new jersey... we do have animals here that are not white tailed deer
Snail Kites (Rostrhamus sociabilis), EAT THE TASTY APPLE SNAILS!!!, family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, northern Florida, USA
females and juveniles are streaked brown and white
Photograph by Dick Vautrinot
Corn Snake aka Red Rat Snake (Pantherophis guttatus), small/young adult, family Colubridae, Florida, USA
photograph by Armin Meier
Florida Softshell Turtle (Apalone ferox), family Trionychidae, in a freshwater spring in FL, USA
photograph by Isaac Szabo
Life stages of the Atala Butterfly (Eumaeus atala), family Lycaenidae, Florida, USA
The host plant for this butterfly is the Coontie, the only cycad native to the continental U.S.
photographs by Mary Jane Krotzer
Florida Worm Lizard (Rhineura floridana), family Rhineuridae, north-central Florida, USA
photographs by Dick Bartlett
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Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus), male, family Anatidae, order Anseriformes, off the coast of New Jersey, USA
photograph by MattSullivan
Bog Turtles (Glyptemys muhlenbergii), family Emydidae, New Jersey, USA
Found only in bogs and other calcareous wetlands in the NE United States.
photograph by Mike Knoerr
Pine Barrens Tree Frog (Dryophytes andersonii), family Hylidae, found in 3 disjunct populations in the Eastern U.S.
Found in 1. the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, 2. the Sandhills of the Carolinas, and 3. The FL Panhandle and far southern Alabama.
photographs by Nathan Shepard
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