Herpetofauna of Europe : guestbook

Lucas Janssens 15/05/2020 18:46	Hi Jeroen, Fantastic website. Do you keep any retpiles and amphibians as pets at home? Best wishes, Lucas
Tony 25/06/2016 17:12	PM sent, many many thanks
Tony 25/06/2016 17:09	Dear Sirs, I have seen several snakes on my land here in Sicily, most are the Western Whip snake, but I have seen one I cannot identify, Do you know where I may send a photo for identification? I love my snakes, but need to understand if they are poisonous or not (we have dogs and children) Thank you for any help Tony
Jeroen 25/06/2016 16:59	@ Tony: my address is on the Contact page.
Tony 25/06/2016 16:29	Dear Sirs, I have seen several snakes on my land here in Sicily, most are the Western Whip snake, but I have seen one I cannot identify, Do you know where I may send a photo for identification? I love my snakes, but need to understand if they are poisonous or not (we have dogs and children) Thank you for any help Tony
Margaret 11/06/2016 08:14	Hi I rescued some tadpoles from a puddle in Vigonza, province of Padova and they are toads I am guessing as the eggs I saw later are in long strings. Is there much chance that I have an introduced species that I should not be encouraging? As I am not from Italy my knowledge of local fauna is limited as is my ability to read websites in Italian. If you have any ideas I would be grateful for your advice. margmarg@me.com Thanks so much
Joanna 24/04/2016 18:41	I really admire you guys,my son and I have been doing the same as you since he was 5,he's now 15,we'd love to join you!
Nuno 19/10/2015 17:00	Great site, with a lot of great information and photos. loved it.
Sir Gonville Ffrench 30/03/2015 09:29	Good work, and as the previous commentators said, thanks for sharing it. I am very envious of your siting of the azure winged magpie, whose range I think is just outside the area of southern Spain that I usually visit each year.
Roman Muryn 22/09/2014 21:37	Your work and the fact you are sharing it is very much appreciated. Thank you.
-- webmaster -- 16/04/2014 13:46	@ Dot: As mentioned on the start page, this is a problem at my end; I need to find some time to reload the older pics to a new server and restore the links. Bare with me, it will happen sooner or later. Sorry and g's, J.
Dot 16/04/2014 12:15	Why some of the pictures in this website cant be displayed ? i cant see all of the pictures??
Nitin Walmiki 14/08/2013 07:31	Flamboyant site....! European countries have good diversity of Salamander as well as Newts Planing to visit wildlife in European countries soon. nitinwalmiki007@gmail.com European's are most welcome to see Endemic herpetofaunal diversity of India.
Mark Beevers 07/06/2013 21:29	Absolutely fantastic site. Currently in southern Spain trying to id photos of several Lizards and a Snake, latter a Montpellier and came across you, now saved in my favourites. Anything for North Africa would be useful as I travel to Morocco and Egypt. Totally admire your commitment to the quest. Brilliant.
Ben 16/05/2013 13:57	Awesome site! Hope to herp Europe someday.
Sascha Ludwig, Dörr 03/12/2012 21:09	Tolle Homepage mit super Fotos und aktuellen Berichten. Bin Fan von Herpetologischem aus Europa und der Orientalischen Region.
Ed Bennett 06/06/2012 22:20	Best site on the net. You are truly the wild herp god of Europe.
Csaba 25/04/2012 14:35	This Is very good and nice site! I need some help. I'm going to Macedonia and south Albania in this May. I need an good fieldreport for these countries.
20/03/2012 19:58	Very Geat site! i'm going to south of turkie in may. I looking for guide about herpetofauna of this country...somebody can help me? Thanks!
Victor 29/01/2012 12:02	I'm going to spain this summer 30 km from Malaga in the mountains so just wanted to know if i can send a link to me with the reptiles I can get to meet my namely planned to go looking for some reptiles my email is MessiFodbold@gmail.com
< webmaster > 07/06/2011 14:39	@ Tobias: finding Algerian whip snake at the Red Tower is highly unlikely, as it has been believed to be restricted to the wider Valletta area since forever. There is no black snake with a red lateral stripe in Europe. Leopard snake can be striped (see e.g. Milos reports), but is never black. Note that juvenile and subadult western whip snakes (after all the most abundant and/or readily found Maltese snake) can have quite a lot of different patterns.
Tobias 05/06/2011 19:09	Great site. Just returned from a tourist trip to malta and googled snakes and malta to identufy the two snakes I saw on the same spot as you in front of the red tower. The first was probably the algerian whip, but the second was black with a red stripe on the side. I cant really match it with any of the 3 snake speices confirmed to live in malta...
Renato Massa 22/04/2011 07:26	A really wonderful website, with a lot of very interesting information for the traveller interested to see wildlife. Thanks for doing this!
< webmaster > 19/03/2011 11:34	I'd suggest to just lick all of the critter, just to be on the safe side.
don bosco 1992 rules 19/03/2011 02:26	Hello Jeroen, I am studying psychotropic substances, hence the following question concerning the licking of frogs. Do you know which frog will give you the best trip and which parts you have to lick? thanks!
< webmaster > 02/03/2011 20:35	Well, thanks, but including coordinates offers open access to anyone, including people who want to collect animals from the wild. It is exactly to avoid this from happening that the reports are kept sufficiently vague.
Stoil Ivanov 02/03/2011 19:52	First Thanks for having the time to make this excellent site. Great trip reports! I especially liked the Making of... it gives me a lot of ideas for my future trips. Keep the good work . I think the future inclusion of coordinates of your finds will improve even more your reports and can be used for future protection of the sites of vulnerable and rare animals. Thanks again for the Great report for Bulgaria .
liri 16/08/2010 13:06	jeroan,your latest report is amazing!!! i engoied reading it and loved the snake pics... im from israel,and if you are in the area you are most wellcome....
Vlad Cioflec 12/08/2010 11:28	The Eurotour report is EPIC !
Stam Zogaris 09/06/2010 18:32	Congradulations the most remarkable herp-centric_natural history exploration site in Europe! I especially admire your "how-this-was-made" pages...your work shows that natural history is not dead! We need these kind of surveys- please visit Greece again!
Julie Bryson 16/05/2010 14:24	Living on the south coast of Crete and fascinated by your report from Crete - have seen 2 leapord snakes - one on my brother's porch and one in my garden!Now I know what they were! gret pictures!
Cornelius de Haan 06/11/2009 20:15	Hi Jeroen, i came on this for me new or updated looking website of yours via the famous EuropFieldHerpCommunity site. Your site (i.e.Herpetofauna of Europe)is excellent again with that modestly B-labelled magnificent A-report on the SAMOS 2009 field trip! G's and A+, Cornelius
Joris Drubbel 04/11/2009 14:38	Buitengewoon mooie site heb je weten op te bouwen zeg! Heel leuke reisverslagen en waanzinnig mooie foto's. Ben hier via de RAVON site komem langswaaien by the way. keep up the good work! met groet! Joris
Vlad Cioflec 26/10/2009 11:17	Loved the Samos trip report. Now my wife wants to visit the island too. So, thanks a lot Jeroen, my next vacation is going to be so awesome. :)
< webmaster > 25/10/2009 11:46	Must be something down at your end, I am afraid, because here all seems to work fine...
MKN 16/10/2009 22:41	I visited the Symi pages, but none of the photos appeared, only placemarkers with a red X.
Steve Jennings 27/09/2009 03:00	Thanks for the Montenegro 25th of April-9th of May 2008 trip report. We emigrated to Montenegro 3 years ago to set up an eco campsite and have seen all manner of reptiles that we (& others in the ex-pat community here) could not identify as often the locals know only the local language names. Your report features many of them and provides a springboard for further research. I'll be passing the link round to the ex-pat community here. Hope that's OK.
Joan Price 14/07/2009 17:48	Loved the photos and info about lizards in Malta. Never been but will now. Just able to go abroad at last and potty about lizards and tortoises. Cheers
Vlad Cioflec 03/07/2009 11:10	The Crete report was way cool! My wife liked the part about the difficulties of being a girlfriend of the snake hunter :)
em 22/06/2009 20:55	Well, congratulations to awesome work you have already done. Very nice photos, interesting trip reports. I would like to invite you for a Central Europe trip to see some unique subspecies like Ablepharus kitaibelii fitzingeri or Vipera ursinii rakosiensis. You can also observe a lot of european species surviving at extreme climatic conditions.
VipoV 14/06/2009 10:53	Great job.
Liri 09/06/2009 21:32	very good site'finelley i cen learn aboute europein reptiles. amazing fotos, especialey the leoperd snake and the tow hierophis. good lucke Liri
20/02/2009 09:31	Good luck on the salamnder trip Jeroen. If herping won`t be that good, take a couple of bird & mammal shots, some habitat and miscellaneous pictures, anything, just post a new report, please. :) . Cheers!
Edmond Themeli 15/11/2008 15:42	This site is my favorite.Can't get enough wathing all the fotos of snakes.I capture snakes myself and i really like them.
Anna 04/11/2008 20:42	We just got back to the states after living in the Appenines and my six year old daughter loved lizard hunting every day. She really enjoyed all the photos. Thanks.
Frankie 18/10/2008 16:53	Your largest "butterfly" Saturnia pyri is actually the largest moth in Europe. Known as the Giant Peacock Moth. Otherwise interesting.
Heather 21/09/2008 19:34	Excellent site. Well done. I guess it's a passion. Thanks for sharing it.
Zdenìk Hromadko 18/09/2008 10:55	I have seen at Your web-sites and at foto-net.sk very nice photos of snakes (Viperas).Soon I return to see more. Zdenek from Czech republic my website www.naturefoto2000.com
borja de las heras 09/08/2008 20:28	great reports! want to see more! regards
Arnold Sciberras Malta 15/07/2008 15:25	havent seen the site for a while and recently i found major additions good work Jeroen.hope we meet again. best wishes
sabine de graeve 15/05/2008 10:37	verslag van laatste reis ... gewoon super ...
Vlad Cioflec 12/05/2008 12:13	Just finished reading Montenegro trip report. WOW. The photos are great and the story is very nice. You really took us there. Thankyou for sharing and inspiring.
Ed Bennett 11/05/2008 22:52	Your sites brilliant!
Vlad Cioflec 04/04/2008 10:00	Best of luck in Montenegro then.
Miqe Erikzen 27/02/2008 15:28	Great site, Jeroen! Found it through Club100. Regards, Miqe
chris harte 28/12/2007 17:35	fantastic site,very interesting.i never realised Europe had such a wide variety of snakes,as here in England we have so few.I will certainly be taking more interest on future European trips!
< webmaster > 14/12/2007 11:43	@ karol: see NEWS item of August 30th. Montenegro seems more than plausible now, the rest is still vague.
karol 12/12/2007 22:12	What about your new trips? Where do you want to go?
Jose Manuel Amarillo (Jerez, S 09/12/2007 21:48	Impressive pictures from Andalussia. I´m an amateur photographer who spends a lot of time trying to capture images as these ones taken in the most nicest natural reserve of Andalussia (Sierra de Grazalema, Cádiz). It is so difficult to find the suitable place, the animals and to be able to take the pictures...... CONGRATULATIONS.
karol 30/10/2007 11:11	Very interesting website.You must go to Korfu. There is so many reptiles and amphibians on this island. I saw there hardun,snakes,lizards and turtles.
Vlad Cioflec 16/10/2007 12:57	Very nice report for Symi. Really cool pictures of the Coin-marked Snake. And that Dwarf snake really is something else... Till next year then!
Vlad Cioflec 30/08/2007 09:59	Excellent plans for future herp-trips. I can`t wait.
Aleksandar Simovic 21/08/2007 22:48	Excelent work,great site,i have two words for trips SIMPLY GREAT! maybe you can sometimes come here in Serbia. Greetings from Belgrade.
Kevin Byrnes 23/06/2007 18:41	Thank you to you and your friends.These trip reports are a real inspiration even though I was bitten by an Asp on a recent spotting trip to France!
Olivier Matgen 15/06/2007 18:55	Thanks for the new "making of" section. Exactly what I was expecting!
Apostolos Ts. 13/06/2007 16:50	One of the best web sites. Gongratulations for the good work.
08/06/2007 10:07	Thanks for the 'Making of' section Jeroen. It will definitely improve many herp trips.We are olso grateful for your quick responses. Keep in touch.
Vlad Cioflec 07/06/2007 10:05	I think Oliver is right. Many fieldherpers out there will like to know about your gear, including handling equipment such as tongs, gloves, snares, etc. Tips and tricks for some secretive species are also welcomed. Keep up the good work.
Olivier Matgen 06/06/2007 15:56	Thank for your website. To my eyes, it is the reference for herp in europe! But you should really think about adding one chapter called "making of" where you could talk a bit about technique and photo equipment used to get those stunning pictures on the field.
< webmaster > 30/05/2007 13:46	@ Vlad Cioflec: thanks for your comment. No fixed plans for future trips yet, though plenty of plans. Keep an eye on the news section on the start page.
Vlad Cioflec 30/05/2007 12:09	Where to next?
Vlad Cioflec 30/05/2007 11:49	Congratulations ! You `re an inspiration for all the field herpers. Best site in the world!!!
Vlad Cioflec 28/05/2007 13:45	We can`t wait anymore for the report from Romania. Have mercy.
Paul - Bucharest 17/05/2007 15:29	Excelent work here! Tell me what you have found in Dobrudja (bones1993@yahoo.com). We've met in the airport.
< webmaster > 25/03/2007 14:06	@ Mike & Mark: please contact me through my e-mail.
Mike & Mark 24/03/2007 19:29	Very impressed with your site & herping skills. We are going to Nafplion (Eastern Peleponnese) early April 2007. Maybe we can pick up some tips from you to make our amateur herping expedition more successful? Greetings from Basel.
Vlad Cioflec 13/03/2007 15:11	the new additions are very very nice.
Vlad Cioflec 09/01/2007 15:06	I cannot get enough of this site. Maybe well meet in may, who knows.
< webmaster > 21/11/2006 19:43	Future trips lost their own page but are/will be listed on the home page. For pictures per species, I would like to refer to EUROHERP or herp.it. g's, J.
Daniel Phillips 17/11/2006 01:13	Great, I would like to see maybe one photo per species in the herp list, and for you guys to re-add the 'futur trips' page which was very interesting. But as usual, very professional photography from Jeroen! Don't forget me when you next drop off in France!
Leonard Zammit 07/11/2006 17:38	Beautiful Work. Keep it up. Thanks
Vlad Cioflec 12/10/2006 10:21	Excelent work. When in Romania try to visit south Dobrogea, near the bulgarian border. U might find Eryx there.
wim boersma 11/09/2006 23:57	beautiful photography
Ian Smith 17/08/06 17/08/2006 15:48	What a great website, very informative/educational with superb photography. But most important of all extremely interesting. Thank-you.
Matthias Wade 08/08/2006 23:58	There are some excellent reports of European herping. Some friends and me try to do similar trips. Not always much succes. How do you find this great number of animals? I wish good luck!
Mustafa Gülücü 06/04/2006 23:17	I'm waiting for new trip reports.May be you will come Turkiye
Dan Kane 31/03/2006 23:28	Great site, with a lot of great photos and great in-depth trip reports.
Wouter Beukema 31/03/2006 22:23	A very professional lay-out! Keep the trips reports coming, they are fantastic to read.