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Sea krait islands

I spent some time during the February half-term holidays island-hopping in southern Thailand. This was not a field trip as such but more of a holiday. One delightful bonus was the abundance of yellow-lipped sea kraits (Laticauda colubrina) on some of the smaller islands. As well as those coming to land in the evening, Kat met a number of them while snorkeling but sadly her underwater camera flooded on the first day so all those experiences went undocumented. That being said, we saw a good number of kraits on land so that made it for this disappointment!

Yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina)
Oriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris)
Mangrove pit viper (Trimeresurus purpeomaculatus)
Painted bronzeback (Dendrelaphis pictus) having an amphibian meal.
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