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Here's some photos from a trip to Czech Republic from where we also traveled to Germany for one day.

First are photos from the German trip (near Bayreuth in Bavaria). As you can see, these newts have very fancy living quarters. I only discovered them by chance - there were frog tadpoles in the pond and but also some newt-larva-shaped creatures, soon after I also found some newts. Unfortunately it wasn't possible to get closer to them. The last couple of pictures show that they are Lissotriton, my guess is vulgaris (correct me if I'm wrong please).
 

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And here's the Czech newts - Ichtyosaura alpestris, found in the same forest I went to two years ago (http://www.caudata.org/forum/f1173-...ping-accounts/76581-newts-czech-republic.html)
Unfortunately there had been very heavy rains throughout spring and the forest had been "flushed out" (according to my father). The little pools by the roads/paths were very dark in colour so no newts were spotted there. Some were however happily living in a puddle on the main road into the forest. So a couple of pictures of them at least. And a frog.
 

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Nice fancy home those newts have :) The newt in the third picture of the first post looks to me like I. alpestris. Love that underwater Lissotriton shot.
 
I agree, it does look like that. The only ones I could find by the sides were Lissotritons but perhaps both species live there.
 
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