THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!
Hello. First, I apologize for not posting this note before, but I had to delay slightly my departure from the field. I am back now and want to share with you some new data obtained thanks to your support.
This was to be my first field trip during the rainy season, but to my surprise, the weather was more like dry season (2016 and 2017 have been atypical years, climatically, in Colombia). The good news (for the snakes) and bad news (for my sample sizes) is the result that we only found 11 individuals killed on the road, and only encountered 4 individuals in our searches of adjacent habitats.
But we did obtain records of four new species for our project: an Anaconda (Eunectes murinus), a very interesting aquatic coral snake (Micrurus surinamensis), a green parrot snake (Leptophis ahaetulla), all as road-kills, and a yellow rat snake (Spilotes pullatus) from the habitat adjacent to the road.
I am very grateful to you all and pleased to have reached my funding goal. I could not have done it without all of you. There is still a lot of field work to come, including encounters with more snake species (hopefully). I promise I'll keep you posted until the end.
Thank you for all your support and interest in my research.
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the weather was more like dry season
First, I apologize for not posting this note before, but I had to delay slightly my departure from the field