Can’t let the birders have all the fun 
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Any surprises? Is it what you expected?
Three from our travels to Africa. One from a holiday to another part of Australia. A couple of endangered species. First 3 are no surprise.
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Ah yes reptiles, a mightier, ancient form (ish) of those feeble feathered beings. On my observations, absolutely no surprises for me here.
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Similarly not many surprises for me, except that orange-throated whiptails (barely) eked out red diamond rattlesnakes in my observations.
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Reptiles are a pretty small percentage of my overall observations (2.5%). The alligator being in the top 10 is a bit of a surprise since I’m from Colorado but I think those were all found on one trip to South Carolina. No lizards in my top 10.
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Definitely much rarer than birds in my observations, but there are some. No surprises for me: P. siculus is from many business trips to Italy, the rest is mainly from an amazing time in Central America. Also, there are more with just one observation.
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My reptile observations are only 1.8% of my total but there are some specials and some, such as chameleons, have a soft spot in my heart.
For my top observations, 9 out of 10 are typical of the Cape region of South Africa where I live, and for the Nile crocodile, it is there because they’re not difficult to spot in many game reserves around the wider Southern African region (but are not found in the Cape).
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All from Spain, where I live and fortunately the pond slider hasn’t overtaken our native turtle (but that’s probably biased by me, as I don’t take a photo of every Trachemys I see.) Further down there are 5 more species of non-native turtles.
What I’m desperately missing is a chameleon!
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(Starred species are also in the top ten observed reptiles for all users)
Not a lot of reptile diversity in my specific area of the PNW, but not too bad for someone with a history of ophidiophobia (something iNat has really helped me cope with actually). The gators, skinks, and anoles are from photos I took when I lived in Georgia (US), but I wasn’t actually on iNaturalist back then —otherwise I would’ve taken a LOT more pictures!
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