Looking for advice from more experienced herpers :) I’m new to herping (I’ve just started a few months ago) but it’s one of my greatest hobbies now, it all started with getting fascinated with geckos during the lockdown and reading as much as I could about these cute creature. Fortunately, I live i…

Depends of course on where you live since the diversity of snakes vs lizards vs other herpetofauna can vary a lot. Lizards are typically diurnal and many are baskers, so that makes them more visible. Snakes are generally more nocturnal and more cryptic overall, with a few exceptions. Where I live …

It is my impression, that on average, snakes are more likely to be hiding under a rock, log, or other material, than a lizard. So if you aren’t looking under objects they would be hiding under you would find a smaller proportion of snakes. I would add that these rocks, logs, and other objects they…

I thought I had a book on the Herpetofauna of Turkey on my bookshelf but now can’t find it. Not surprising because my library is chaotic. Seems that there is such a guide, perhaps now rather out-of-date, but you might look into that.

Most of my life, I would have said the exact opposite. I grew up in a place (Oregon, and most of the Pacific Northwest), where snakes are a pretty normal occurrence when you are outdoors, but lizards are still a rarity. To specify, almost all of the snakes observed there are common garter snakes, i…

My sense is that the wetter parts of the US have the lowest lizard diversity while the deserts have the highest. Doesn’t hold for snakes which occupy a greater range of habitats than lizards in North America. We have various types of water snakes but no water lizards,

I have made 145 snake recordings on iNat and 740 lizards. Given that I photograph every snake I can and only the first lizard of a species per day/site these numbers are actually flattering for snakes. I find it interesting that some areas of North America were mentioned to have more snakes but tho…

Here in southern Ontario we only have one species of lizard and it’s very rare and only found in some locations. However, I see a snake or two on most hikes in the summer

I was foolishly overgeneralizing when I said that lizards are much easier to find than snakes “everywhere”, as several people have made clear. In my experience, it is the case in most ecosystems, but certainly not all. Like @reiner , I usually try to record every snake I see, and only a small percent…

Same here in Fort Collins, Colorado. I see snakes (particularly the Plains Garter Snake) all the time, but I almost never see any lizards. I also assumed that this snake-to-lizard ratio was normal most places, but I guess not!

In my experience in Fort Collins, Colorado, snakes are much, MUCH easier to find than lizards. However, with only about 19 reptile and 6 amphibian species in Larimer County, it’s not the greatest place for herping.

Are lizards much easier to find than snakes?

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Are lizards much easier to find than snakes?

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