Well here it is, the reason I went to Majorca: Majorcan midwife toad (Alytes muletensis). It was exhausting work in 35C heat, but we found most of the animals we were after on the island, which surprised us with its beauty away from the tourist resorts. Report will soon follow once I’ve caught up on…

Here is a short video clip I made today of the amazing Lilford´s wall lizards (Podarcis lilfordi) found on the off shore islets of Majorca. We also visited two other islets yesterday with melanistic (black) populations of this beautiful lizard.

Soon I’ll be off to the Spanish island of Majorca, I have already been told that a considerable amount of luck will be needed to find the species I’m after here due to the prolonged summer drought and high temperatures. Its going to be a tough one to find a Majorcan midwife toad (Alytes muletensis)…

After the disappointing amount of photographs you are able to load up for free with Flickr.com, I decided to find an alternative which doesn’t require paying after 200 photo uploads at Picasa, Google’s online photosharing contribution: http://picasaweb.google.com/mjwilsonherps I still have alot left to upload but I’ll try and get as many albums up as I can,…

This weekend I have been in Murcia (Spain) visiting some friends. Not a herping trip at all but on Saturday I did spend the afternoon in the field with my good friend and famous Murcian Naturalist and Conservationist Vicente Hernandez-Gil. We drove up the north west of Murcia where I was hoping to find some…

Here is the report from our epic trip to Greece: http://amphibianreptiletravels.com/northern-greece/ I hope you all like it!

Here are a few highlight photos from my trip across northern Greece these last 2 weeks, its going to take me a long time to upload all the photos from this one!

Well Ilias and I did it, we braved falling boulders and tree trunks to reach 2000m in Greece to find the Northern viper or Greek Adder (Vipera berus bosniensis).  Without doubt one of the most isolated and beautiful habitats in the entire country, the vipers are also nice 🙂 Report and photos to follow.

I have been in Greece for 10 days now, and this has been the most amazing trip. I cannot wait to share photos and videos from this excursion which has easily been my most successful ever, having found many specimens of all the species I wanted to see as well as alot more.  Our first…