"Dozing dinos" is perhaps more apt for shots of sleeping birds, but excusing that literary license, how many of these California desert lizards can you identify? Answers at bottom of page.
 

Lizard 1 (below) by DR

Lizard 2 (below) by RC

Lizard 3 (both shots below), doing pushups (L) by RC & head shot (R) by DR Lizard 4 (below) by DR

Lizard 5 (below) by RC

Lizard 6 (below) by DR

Rita's digital shots with a Sony DSCP72 Cyber-shot Don's digital shots with an Olympus Camedia D560 all but lizard #2 were digiscoped through Leica Televid APO 77 telescope

ANSWERS to lizard i.d quiz all photos 28-31 May 2004 1. Uta stanburiana  [Morongo Valley Preserve, San Bernardino Co.] 2. Cnemidophorus tigris tigris  [Death Valley National Park, Inyo Co.] 3. Sceloporus magister  [Mojave National Preserve, San Bernardino Co.] 4. Sauromalus obesus; adult  [Townes Pass, Death Valley NP, Inyo Co.] 5. Crotaphytus bicinctores [Townes Pass, Death Valley NP, Inyo Co.] 6. Sauromalus obesus; juvenile  [Townes Pass, Death Valley NP, Inyo Co.]

all lizard i.d. and taxonomy from Stebbins' Western Reptiles & Amphibians, 3d ed. if we got any wrong, let us know  ....

All photos & text © 2004 Don Roberson & Rita Carratello; all rights reserved.

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