From Birding to Herping: Build a Public Record of What You Find
Bird lists are common. Reptile, frog, and insect lists are not. AnimalDex lets you keep one public wild record across those habits — without promising sightings.
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Dawn birding is fast and optical. Herping is slow and often after dark. Macro is crouch-and-wait. The animals do not share a schedule, but they can share a collection if the app does not treat reptiles as second-class detections.
Keep the record honest
Live captures only. No luring, no handling, no turning logs to manufacture a frog. AnimalDex Wildlife Guide terms forbid baiting and disturbance for the same reason a personal list should: the record is worthless if you coerced the animal.
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The same public wild record is what collectors see as aggregate credentials on a listing. It is not a capture-ID dump. It is a count of wild species and qualifying wild captures — enough to show you have been out, not enough to dox a den.
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