Chip, as always, your pics are absolutely PHENOMENAL! Thanks for sharing (I personally love the coachwhip!).

Are you using a certain type of funnel trap for this study? We are looking at doing something similar up herebut haven't found one that we like yet.

Rob Carmichael, Curator
The Wildlife Discovery Center

>>Here are a few shots of some of the animals caught in the 376 funnel traps we have out in the Boot Heel of New Mexico for a project I'm helping on this summer. I actually head back out (from here in Tucson) for another 10 day plus stint on Monday.
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>>Black tail rattlesnake
>>Crotalus molossus
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>>Prairie rattlesnake Juvenile Crotalus viridis Any one else notice how bitey the juvies are of this species but how calm they are as adults? would be interested in seeing if this is the same across their wide range
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>>Glossy snake Arizona elegans
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>>Juvie western diamondback Crotalus atrox
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>>Texas horned lizard Phrynosoma cornutum
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>>Short horned horned lizard Phrynosoma hernandesi
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>>Coachwhip Masticophis flagellum
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>>Here are some other cool animals caught in the traps that I got to see.
>>Pocket gopher Geomyidae sp. cant think of the species right now but these guys are really cool.
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>>A Shrike Lanius ludovicianus, really cool bird who has the habit of sticking parts of the lizards and mammals it kills on barbed wire or on the thorns of trees.
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>>Walking stick
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>>Re-introduced Black tailed Prairie dog in its town.
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>>Here are two sunsets looking north toward the Animas mountains
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>>Flower of a cholla
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Rob Carmichael, Curator
The Wildlife Discovery Center at Elawa Farm
Lake Forest, IL

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