Orianne Society Blog
Welcome to The Orianne Society Blog! We will use the Blog to update everyone on the important reptile conservation work to which we are dedicated. Stay tuned for stories from our biologists as they report back from the field on projects working with indigo snakes, some of the world’s largest vipers, and rare tortoises; from our Captive Breeding facility staff as they provide information on breeding and hatching of indigo snakes and other species; and from our Land Management Team as they set prescribed fires in the longleaf pine forests and saw timber down in overgrown bog turtle habitat. More adventures soon!
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Author: Dirk Stevenson
I spent part of last week assisting
with field surveys for a remarkable river turtle.
Jim Godwin, zoologist with
the Alabama Natural Heritage Program, and his colleagues are investigating a
possible hybrid population of the Escambia map turtle (Graptemys ernsti)
and Barbour's map turtle (Graptemys barbouri). This unusual
population may occur in the Pea and Choctawhatchee rivers of southern...
 Imagine that you are a field biologist exploring an
unknown area. You come across a wetland and want to know what species are
there. You add some...
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 For
those of you who are familiar with the ecology of Eastern Indigo Snakes, you
probably know that Indigo Snakes require large tracts of natural...
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 On a remote pineland in south
Georgia, I was helping a University of Georgia doctoral student with her radio telemetry study of Eastern Indigo
Snakes...
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 From his perch in the Piedmont, my good friend and
accomplished naturalist Giff Beaton has been steady with e-mails to his invert
cronies here in the...
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