Cfreptiles & Amphibians

HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL & AMPHIBIANS15, NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 28(2):189 227–228 • AUG 2021 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS PredationFEATURE ARTICLES of a Mesoamerican Cane Toad, . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: RhinellaOn the Road tohorribilis Understanding the Ecology and Conservation(Anura: of the Midwest’s GiantBufonidae), Serpent ...................... Joshua M. Kapfer 190by a . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: White-tailedA Hypothetical Excursion Hawk ............................................................................................................................ (Geranoaetus albicaudatusRobert W. Henderson 198 ) RESEARCH ARTICLES in. The Laguna Texas Horned Lizard in Central de and Western Tixtla, Texas ....................... EmilyGuerrero, Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, M and Gade Perryxico 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida .............................................Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 Epifanio Blancas-Calva1 and Marisol Castro-Torreblanca2, 3 CONSERVATION ALERT 1Instituto de Investigación Científica Área de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, Ciudad Universitaria, Chilpancingo, Guerrero 39087, . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...............................................................................................................................Mexico ([email protected] [corresponding author]) .............................. 220 . 2Programa de PosgradoMore Thanen Ciencias Mammals Biológicas, ............................................................................................................................... Coordinación de Estudios de Posgrado, Universidad Nacional....................................... Autónoma de Mexico, Mex223 ico City, Mexico . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 ([email protected]) 3Unidad de Investigación en Biología Comparada y Biodiversidad, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, HUSBANDRY Mexico City, Mexico . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... Shannon Plummer 226 PROFILE . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ................................................................................................ Michael L. Treglia 234 he White-tailed Hawk (Geranoaetus albicaudatus), Ta tropical COMMENTARYraptor that ranges from southern Texas through Central America. The Turtles to HavePatagonia Been Watching in northern Me ........................................................................................................................ Argentina Eric Gangloff 238 (Heredia and ClarkBOOK 1984; REVIEW Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2005; Granzinolli and Motta-Junior. Threatened Amphibians 2007), of thefeeds World on edited a wide by S.N. range Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, of vertebrates and invertebratesR. Berridge, P. (CottamRamani, and B.E.and Young Knappen .............................................................................................................. 1939; Robert Powell 243 Stevenson and Meitzen 1946; Granzinolli and Motta-Junior CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 2007). White-tailed NATURAL Hawks HISTORY typically RESEARCH sight prey REPORTS while: Summariesglid- of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 ing or in stationary NEWBRIEFS flight some ............................................................................................................................... 15–50 m above the ground ....................................................... 248 (Oberholser 1974) EDITORIAL in open INFORMATIONfields with scattered ............................................................................................................................... trees and ...................... 251 FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 bushes or brushy ranchland (Howell and Webb 2005). During a study of water birds at the endorheic Laguna de Tixtla, Guerrero, México (17°33’48.30”N, 99°23’11.25”W; elev. 1,337 m asl), at about 1645 h on 23 January 2021, Fig. 1. A White-tailed Hawk (Geranoaetus albicaudatus) in flight after Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern we observed a White-tailed Hawk preying on an adult preying on a Mesoamerican Cane Toad (Rhinella horribilis). Photograph Totat et velleseque audant mo by TotatEpifanio et velleseque Blancas-Calva. audant mo Mesoamerican Cane Toad (Rhinellaestibus horribilis inveliquo). velique While rerchil gliding estibus inveliquo velique rerchil just above the lake, which was coverederspienimus, by quos Common accullabo. IlibusWater erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum Hyacinths (Eichhornia crassipes), fugiatisit suddenly maionsequat descended eumque and fugiatis maionsequat eumqueAcknowledgments captured the toad (Fig. 1) beforemoditia flying erere south nonsedis into ma sectiaturan area Wemoditia thank erere nonsedis J.C. Blancas-Hernández ma sectia- for reviewing an earlier ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as covered by dry forest vegetation. accullabo. draft of this manuscript and G. Santos-Barrera for helpful During a year of fieldwork in this area, we recorded a corrections to the English version. White-tailed Hawk four times and, on three different occa- sions, observed predation on Mesoamerican Cane Toads, Literature Cited although these amphibians are toxic to some predatory birds Beckmann, C., M.R. Crossland, and R. Shine. 2011. Responses of Australian wad- ing birds to a novel toxic prey type, the invasive cane toad Rhinella marina. that avoid ingesting them (Beckmann et al. 2011). The Biological Invasions 13: 2925–2934. https://doi 10.1007/s10530-011-9974-1. Laguna of Tixtla is a natural, ephemeral, eutrophicated body Castro-Torreblanca, M. and E. Blancas-Calva. 2021. Anophthalmia in a juve- of water surrounded by agricultural fields and bordered to nile Pine Toad, Incilius occidentalis (Anura: Bufonidae), from Laguna de Tixtla, Guerrero, Mexico. Reptiles & Amphibians 28: 22–23. https://doi. the west by the city of Tixtla, which discharges the wastewa- org/10.17161/randa.v28i1. ter that is largely responsible for the eutrophication (Castro- Cottam, C. and P. Knappen. 1939. Food of some uncommon North American Torreblanca and Blancas-Calva 2021). birds. The Auk 56: 138–169. https://doi.org.10.2307/4078038. Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 227 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 2332-4961 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. BLANCAS-CALVA AND CASTRO-TORREBLANCA REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 28(2): 227–228 • AUG 2021 Ferguson-Lees, J. and D.A. Christie. 2005. Raptors of the World. Princeton Texas. Raptor Research 18: 30–31. https://doi.org/10.1071/mu06045. University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Howell, S.N.G. and S. Webb. 2005. A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Granzinolli, M.A.M. and J.C. Motta-Junior. 2007. Feeding ecology of the White- Central America. Oxford University Press Inc., New York, New York, USA. tailed Hawk (Buteo albicaudatus) in south-eastern Brazil. Emu 107: 214–222. Oberholser, H.C. 1974. The Bird Life of Texas. Volume 1. University of Texas Press, https://doi.org/10.1071/MU06045. Austin, Texas, USA. Heredia, B. and W.S. Clark. 1984. Kleptoparasitism by White-Tailed Hawk (Buteo Stevenson, J.O. and L.H. Meitzen. 1946. Behavior and food habits of Sennett’s albicaudatus) on Black-Shouldered Kite (Elanus caeruleus leucurus) in southern White-tailed Hawk in Texas. Wilson Bulletin 58: 198–205. 228.

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