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Dear Twitter, this is what it looks like when one of the smallest snakes on Earth yawns. The Brahminy Blind Snake aka Flowerpot Snake 😍

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I just met this snippet of electrified velvet. Extraordinary creature! This is Pompelon Marginata - a species of day-flying moth. Drink in that beauty!!

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Love these Horned Ghost Crabs. Those eyes are just extravagant.

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Okay Tweeters, I know you love a good worm, so here is one of the best! A Hammerhead Flatworm and a striped one at that. You’re welcome! 🧡🖤🤍

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Holiday in Borneo and this is what is happening on the pool deck 🐍 🤩

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4 years

Ok, so this just happened in real life. Magical #Manhattan

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4 years

A Red Eft picks it’s way through wet leaf litter on a rainy morning in New Jersey.

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2 years

If you haven’t seen anything amazing today - this is a fish digging it’s own swimming pool using its mouth. You’re welcome!

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Nothing like wallowing in sloppy mud while devouring rotten fish. That’s how a Malayan Water Monitor lives it’s best life. Its a dirty job, but these lizards play an essential role in removal of decay & disease control. It’s a bonus that they are gorgeous and personality packed

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So I spotted this beautiful girl by the pool today and now I’m in love. Paradise Tree Snake. Kinabatangan River, Borneo.

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6 months

I know cockroaches aren’t popular but these forest dwelling Dried Leaf Cockroaches are quite beautifully designed

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2 years

A close up of today’s whip snake 💚

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The best moth with the best name - meet Pompelon marginata

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3 years

It was when darkness came that he reflected on a life spent in the gutter

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I know Twitter likes a good worm, so here is my forest dwelling stripy orange-headed friend, the Hammerhead Flatworm

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10 months

This was my first time taking a really close look at the face of a giant millipede. How awesome is that? It looks like Ironman or something.

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Spotted this Sunda Colugo yesterday morning. It was comfortable enough with my presence to go through its cleaning routine. I had the rare opportunity to see the amazing gliding membrane that allows these unique critters to glide for over 100 meters between trees.

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Camouflage Colugo style

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I get so worried that there are people out there in the world who have not heard an otter squealing today. If that is you, you’re welcome!

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It like Valley of the Gwangi here! I’ve never seen the invasive Green Iguana in this part of Singapore before and the native Water Monitor is letting it know that it isn’t welcome. Two of the most awesome lizards on Earth! 🥊

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3 years

One of my favourites - a male Olive-backed Sunbird on the hunt for nectar

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Pool deck snake - wait for it… wait for it… how close is too close?

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2 years

I wanted to grab a few seconds of video of the local urban otter family being playful and cute in the park. How did I do? 🥰

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1 year

My reel of the hammerhead flatworm from this morning’s walk. Love how little dude seems to panic when he breaks through the surface tension of a 1mm puddle

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My first Black giant squirrel. I found it in a tree with langurs and was not prepared to see a squirrel that was larger than some of the mid size monkeys. Stunning animal and full of personality.

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An impossibly beautiful Pink-necked Pigeon in Singapore

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Looking down the barrel of an Oriental Whip Snake today.

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6 months

I love living in a country where this happens. Just a big old water monitor swimming by 🦖

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2 years

Local Paradise Tree Snake hanging out at my place. Cute or not cute? 🤩

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Common Bluebottle reflecting on life on a hot sunny day. A truly beautiful butterfly.

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Mother Nature shared one of her most beautiful creations with me today 🤩💚

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I found this beautiful little Pink-headed Reed Snake last night. My first time seeing one and I was blown away by how tiny it is 😍

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8 months

Perhaps the most beautiful chrysalis I’ve found. It belongs to the Common Baron and still shows the feathered skirt of the caterpillar. Excessively over designed. The vanity of butterflies 🤩

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Mourning - I just came across a sad scene. As life slipped out of an emaciated Clouded monitor lizard it’s partner sat with it with a hand on its back. Perhaps we could be kinder in how we think about reptiles.

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3 years

An Oriental Pied Hornbill flying overhead. Does urban birding get better than this?

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A female Pink-necked Green Pigeon looking magnificent in a low sun. What about that eye!

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2 years

I do like a good dewlap! What’s a dewlap you ask? It’s the dangly bit under the chin. A magnificent wild Green Iguana 🐉

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Beautiful Orb Weaver gathering up her golden yarn 🧶

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I was driving when my eyes landed on this ball of spines along the roadside. Moments later I was on the ground as this beautiful young Short-beaked Echidna trundled by me without a care in the world.

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Here is a photograph that I’ve wanted for a while. The Dog-faced Water Snake with eyes and nostrils floating above the water while the body is submerged.

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It’s World Snake Day! To mark the day, here is the Malayan Blue Coral Snake that I photographed just before heading off on my travels. One of the most beautiful and most venomous snakes on the planet.

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4 years

Right now in @bryantparknyc Midtown Manhattan. This is the most beautiful thing you could see in NYC today.

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I spent an hour photographing Green Iguanas at the weekend. One of my favourite things to do. They are photogenic prehistoric perfection.

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2 years

Another reminder - you share a planet with this thing! Hammerhead Flatworm. It’s real, not made up.

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1 year

Check out this wet morning wormy goodness. Hammerhead flatworm 🤩

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2 years

Well this is a nice find! 🐍🤩

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Here is a Flowerpot Snake. She is the second smallest snake on the planet. How do I know she is a she? They are all shes! These ladies just keeps cloning themselves. No sperm required! Perhaps that’s why she is smiling ☺️

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3 years

Collared Kingfisher. Birding doesn’t get much better than this. I took this photograph at the bus stop while waiting for the 176.

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9 months

Gold-ringed Cat Snake (Boiga dendrophila) meandering along a forest stream. Peaceful, graceful, and incredibly beautiful. It’s such a privilege to sit by the stream as it glides by.

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@GinaGoesOutside Probably this. It’s only a common toad in a drain taken with an iPhone, but I was pretty pleased with it. It’s opened up a whole new world of urban drain night life

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4 years

Look what I just found! A delightful little Red Eft 🧡

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Malayan Water Monitor gliding across a lake in Singapore

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Spotted this Banded Woodpecker while out getting my dose of Nature Therapy. I’m not sure if there is a more striking woodpecker than this guy, dressed up in scarlet and gold. #singapore

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The unmistakable electric blue of the stunning Blue Malayan Coral Snake. As deadly as it is beautiful, it shows no aggression towards people. Its preferred meal is juvenile cobras. When your dinner bites back you need a powerful venom to bring it under control quickly.

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Look at the face on this one! This guy came paddling around the bush, clearly not expecting to find me sat there eating a mango gelato.

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3 years

I’m going to be posting lots of iPhone photos of toads and frogs in drains because I just love taking them. You’re welcome!

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A Mangrove Pit Viper from my Thursday night walk.

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A Green Crested Lizard illuminating the shade beneath the tree canopy. Extraordinary! 💚

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I found this Mangrove Pit Viper at the weekend. I’ve never seen one so dark 🤩

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5 years

Each time I go to the West Coast I try to photograph Steller’s Jay. I have many blurs and tail shots to prove how difficult it is to catch them sitting still in good light. This guy landed on the roof of a neighboring cabin at first light to give me my only reasonable shot.

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1 year

Here Be Dragons - a portrait of a Green Iguana. Perhaps the most spectacular lizard on the planet.

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4 months

This beautiful fat Malayan Water Monitor on the edge of the track was as curious about me as I was about her

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2 years

I spotted this beautiful Shore Pit Viper today. I don’t get to the mangroves as often as I should. When I do it is always a thrill to find a viper. This is a highly venomous snake with a reputation for having a bad temper when approached. A longer lens is the safest choice.

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A beautiful flower morph Paradise Tree Snake. I really enjoy finding this common species. So much diversity in colour and pattern.

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2 years

I almost stepped on this gorgeous little Emerald Dove in the leaf litter alongside the track.

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INCOMING!! Singapore’s urban otters formation flying complete with squeaks and squeals 🥰

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11 months

Hey Tweeters - just look at how magnificent this Oriental Whip Snake looks. Mind boggling beauty!! 💚

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1 year

A loop of Paradise Tree Snake

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9 months

Paradise Tree Snakelet (Chrysopelea paradisi) - this Snakelet was so small that my first impression was that I was looking at a centipede. It’s diminutive size was more than made up for by its vibrant colours.

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5 years

This Boat-tailed Grackle has snatched someone’s Pop-Tart. Grackles are expert thieves and will eat anything. Tybee Island, Georgia.

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1 year

Face to face with a large Kopstein’s Bronzeback. I had to wait camera poised until this curious charismatic snake came to check me out before carrying on with its business.

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1 year

This is my kind of traffic jam 💚🦖😍

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Praying mantis on a nighttime hunt

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I was about to delete this Green Paddy Frog photo when I noticed a teeny weeny little toadlet by its foot. How cute is that? 🤩

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Urban wildlife at its finest! This baby Reticulated Python was coiled on a railing along a busy foot and cycle path. I guess I watched at least 200 people walk close by with no idea that they had just passed a python.

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Look at this astonishing creature. I never take it for granted that I can see huge, magnificent reptiles like this at will in Singapore. Malayan Water Monitor basking on the track.

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Twitter - I don’t think you have seen enough bats today.

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Malayan Water Monitor picking its way through a shallow clear pond in search of a frog for lunch.

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I love finding these stunners on a wet humid morning

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I do love a Kookaburra and this is a particularly fine specimen 🤩

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1 year

Look at this squiggle of gooey goodness that I met tonight. A good size, too! Hammerhead Flatworm 🤩

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1 year

Huge excitement! After a storm I opened my door to find a Brahminy Blind Snake outside. One of the smallest snakes on the planet, this species spends its life underground. It looks like & behaves like a worm. Next time you see a very dark worm after heavy rain, take a close look

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Wildlife photographers sometimes find ourselves unwittingly in the middle of a moment of pure beauty. Unplanned and unprovoked. Today an echidna trundled several meters towards me before stopping to explore me. Sniffing and licking my boot and leg. Such privilege and joy.

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That time Godzilla came to town 🦖

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Another beautiful Malayan Water Monitor encounter today. Look at this big beauty making a graceful swim across a channel 🤩

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Nose to nose with an Oriental Whip Snake through the palm fronds

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Malayan Water Monitor picking its way through the lilies. Look at those claws!

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The mighty Malayan Water Monitor. They are such powerful and confident creatures. Easy to see why they are so confident when you look a little closer at their dinosaur paws. Incredible claws!

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A gorgeous flower morph Paradise Tree Snake basking on a handrail in Singapore.

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Hiding in plain sight - I walked up on this Large-tailed Nightjar while looking for reptiles. My eyes nearly fell out of my head when I spotted it. Sensational camouflage!

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Tasting the water 🦖

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The magnificent Stork-billed Kingfisher. One of those birds that people are always excited to see. They are works of art!

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6 months

I never get tired of this. A little reminder to be still a while and look for the hidden beauty.

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2 years

You might not be ready for this on your Twitter feed, but this is a Hammerhead Worm.

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1 year

How cool is this! I get to a hotel and walk out on to the balcony and not only is there a snake waiting for me, but it’s a lifer for me (Golden Flying Snake). I’m not even on a wildlife holiday! 🤩 Wait to the end when it sees me 😅

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Something caught my eye as I walked through the Botanic Gardens yesterday. These masters of camouflage are a pair of Large-tailed Nightjars. Amazing to see them in the busy Gardens.

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Look how graceful this Malayan Water Monitor is in its natural habitat

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I found a Brahminy Blind Snake last night. This little piece of string was just a few centimetres long and less than 2 millimetres across. The smallest reptile that I’ve ever found. Hard to recognise as a snake but if you look closely you can see the tiny little forked tongue.

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Hammerhead flatworm skimming across the surface of a tiny puddle before unexpectedly sinking 🤩 you are welcome, Twitter!

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Lesser Mousedeer - meet one of the smallest hoofed animal on the planet. Size of a lanky rabbit. I spotted this little male snuffling for food under fruit trees where macaques were feeding. Uncommon sighting! Look at his little sniffy nose 🥰

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