Pls ID this Green Lizard

[Sylvia Ramos]

This was in Sierra Madre, Nueva Ecija.
I stopped to look at this because I thought it was a bird. Then, I thought it was a leaf. Now I'd like to know .. What is it??


iso 640, 5.6, 1/800 Canon 50d + 400 mm

[ppaaoolloo]

Lovely looking Lizard Sylvia. Have you tried shooting at shutter 1/400 with the 50d+400/5.6? I think you can bump down the ISO to say 100 or 200.

OT: Do you have an entry for tomorrow night? Will plain idol be available tomorrow?

[Sylvia Ramos]

Thanks Paolo!
I do have entries for the photo club .. BUT we decided not to join na lang. Don't think we have enough time for another activity/hobby.

[tina mallari]

Beautiful lizard Sylvs

I think I found it ....

Bronchocela Cristatella

www.constrictors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21030

[Sylvia Ramos]

Thanks Tina! You can id lizards too?!?! Woh! Whatta talent!
From afar, this lizard looked very leaf-like.

Paolo -- this was one of those "click a lot first, look at settings you were on later" situations! It jumped away before I could adjust the camera.

[Lydia Robledo]

Hi Sylvia,
That's a quick shot and the sharpness of the head is superb!
Here's a lizard posted by Mark Villa. Is it the same?

mjbirder.blogspot.com/2009/04/chameleon-of-philippines.html

[ppaaoolloo]

No prob Syl I'm having problems looking for time for the birds. Work's hectic.

[Neon Rosell II]

Yeah Plain Master Idol Tina can ID Lizard too!!! And she's at par with the expert at National Museum of the Philippines, as this email from my sister Grace will attest.

"According to Dr. Arvin Diesmos of the National Museum of the Philippines
it's an agamid from the Genus Bronchocela (same as the lizard that you
photographed from Los Banos that you also had requested for ID). He's
not quite sure of the species but for now you could tell your friend
that it's a Bronchocela cf. cristatella."

[Toto Gamboa]

wooooooow ... pretty lizard! this made me remember i have a photo of a flying lizard from last month.

[Sylvia Ramos]

Thanks Toto! Thanks Te Lyds, it IS the same as Mark's color-changing lizard. I think it changed the color of its tail to make it look like a stem.

Neon -- thanks for asking your sister to id it!

[Lydia Robledo]

I posted this before, taken in Iwahig Penal Colony, just before Balsahan. I think this is the same butterfly, ehe... lizard as Sylvia's and Mark. This shows the long tail. Or maybe this is another one??? tleyds