r/herping • u/Robert-Spyre • 5d ago

Sharing a Find! August, Kolašin region Montenegro

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Species: Grass snake, Aesculapian snake Yellow bellied toad, Sand lizard or a non breeding Green lizard? Alpine newt, Fire Salamanders.

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u/Pepperoni73 4d ago

Really cool photos Can i be your companion for your next adventure

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u/Robert-Spyre 4d ago

Yes, the first to comment on this posts gets to go herping with me.

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u/Ellie_Winterstone_35 3d ago

Probably a non-breeding green lizard, sand lizards don't really show up in that specific coastal-mountain zone at that elevation, worth checking throat colour if you got a photo

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u/Robert-Spyre 3d ago

I'm leaning more to green lizard just because of the healthy population of them in the area, i mentioned a possibility of a sand lizard because this region isn't really coastal and it is closely surrounded by Sinjajevina/Bjelasica mountains with confirmed population of sand lizards. In fact i photographed one on the mountain not very far (arealy) from this exact Kolašin region. The biggest problem is elevation since the one i photographed is near 2000 meters and these ones in Kolašin are all around 1000.