[Closed] What's my newt?

[s]Hitler![/s] Ken!

It's a common/smooth newt, not SSI worthy but still good news!

What's my newt?

Something that's really really small.

He's about 2" long.

Not just my-newt - thats minuscule.

edit - bah! 45 seconds.

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I'd guess it's a palmate (eft stage) - because the stripe continues all the way along the tail?

From Newts and Salamanders of Europe, by Richard Griffiths (1996): "Immature newts may be identified as palmate newts by a light-coloured dorsal stripe which runs down the neck, down the back and on to the tail. This is yellow-orange in colour and of equal intensity along its length."

The same book says that smooth newts "...may be distinguished from the closely related palmate newt by the dorsal stripe. In many animals this yellow stripe is most intense where it starts on the head, and then fades gradually along the back and does not reach the tail."

It would be good to leave some undisturbed rocks/bricks around as ongoing habitat for the little beauties. Love newts, me.

Are you going to name him Tiny?

Oops, Malvern rider is right, I should have checked before answering so confidently!

I was on Newt course the week before last. We were lucky enough to catch male and females of all 3 UK native species. In the hand or tub they are fairly easy to distinguish butdifficult on photos alone as you can't always see the identifying features (female smooth and female palmate in particular). Fantastic little things - good spot, I am jealous.

Hi, this is a difficult photo to identify from but my Zoologist daughter who regularly surveys for newts as part of her job has assured me that this appears to be a great crested newt from this photo. She says that "the dorsal crest looks big enough and the white flash along the tail is a unique feature to great crested newts. Its hard to say for certain without a photo of the underside but it definitely looks good for it! Give him a little pond and he'll survive just fine."

I used to work for a business in the middle of a large, busy industrial estate, the back part was the warehouse section, fork-trucks moving pallets of stuff around, etc, and while I was walking through one day I spotted something moving across the floor.
When I got closer I could see it was a newt, marching in a very determined and purposeful manner across the warehouse, just asking to end up smeared by a ton and a half of fork-truck!
How it got there I shall never know, the nearest water was nearly a mile away, it could have come from someone's pond, but the nearest houses were a couple of hundred yards away, with rough ground between.
Found a little plastic box, put tissue paper in the bottom and soaked it, and put Tiny in and put her somewhere safe.
Phoned the local wildlife trust and got the location of the nearest large pond with newts and took it there and released it.
No idea what species, but glad I saved it's teeny little life.