Hi – A few Australian birders visit East Timor, West Timor and other parts of Nusa Tenggara.
Ruud de Lang [delaroz AT hetnet.nl] has just had “Snakes of the Lesser Sundas” [Lombok through to Timor and Wetar] published. This included many photographs of snakes and habitats from oriental birders. The book included more that 300 colour photographs of the 30 odd snakes in the islands.
This is an excellent book, though with only 30 species, a 60-90 page booklet in English and Indonesian, would be ideal for identification in the field [1 page information and 1 page of photos per species]. Up to about 50 photos are given of the “White-lipped Island Viper/Green pit viper” which has blue, yellow and green colour forms! The blue ones on Komodo look stunning.
http://www.andrewisles.com/all-stock/publication/the-snakes-of-the-lesser-sunda- islands-nusa-tenggara-indonesia-a-field-guide-to-the-terrestrial-and-semi-aquati c-snakes-of-the-lesser-sunda-islands-with-identification-key
Ruud is currently working on snakes of Maluku – if anyone has snake photos from Halmahera, Seram, Buru, Kai, Tanimbar, Ambon etc, and habitat shots, please send them on to Ruud, email above.
Thanks,
Colin Trainor
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