Wilafa

My passions are painting, music, and nature (particularly herpetology) and I occasionally contribute information on these subjects to Wikipedia. I like writing in depth and sticking to subjects that I know. I am an avid nature photographer and sometimes contribute images to Wikimedia Commons to illustrate articles, although I'm not inclined to give my very best to the public domain (Category:Photographs and images by William L. Farr). I occasionally make original maps or graphics as well. I was born in Houston, Texas in 1958, and have lived in Houston and worked in the fields of herpetology and fine art all of my life.

Some articles that I have made significant contributions (added bytes) to include -

Natural History

Agkistrodon conanti (9,735 bytes) Agkistrodon howardgloydi (9,994 bytes) Agkistrodon taylori (33,192 bytes) Baygall (5,752 bytes) Big Thicket (103,011 bytes)

Bothrops asper (7,497 bytes) Cnidoscolus texanus (3,929 bytes) Graptemys (28,616 bytes) Greater earless lizard (30,734 bytes) James R. Dixon (26,771 bytes)

Mexican blind lizard (7,796 bytes) Piney Woods (30,682 bytes) Pseudemys (16,120 bytes) Sternotherus (19,033 bytes) Tamaulipan Mezquital (45,317 bytes) Texas Blackland Prairie (22,426 bytes)

Art

Audrey Jones Beck (13,942 bytes) Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (8,127 bytes) Constellations (Miró) (29,595 bytes) Honoré Daumier (24,876 bytes) William Degouve de Nuncques (6,029 bytes)

The Empire of Light (12,038 bytes) J. J. Grandville (45,292 bytes) Max Klinger (19,704 bytes) Robert L. Levers, Jr. (38,710 bytes) Loplop (6,755 bytes)

Minotaure (39,435 bytes) Gustave Moreau (35,624 bytes) Giovanni di Paolo (5,267 bytes) Félicien Rops (61,477 bytes) Salvator Rosa (16,818 bytes) George Stubbs (12,040 bytes)

History of Art (Heading and texts for): Western art after 1770, Realism (c. 1840–1880), Impressionism (c. 1860–1890), Symbolism (c. 1860–1915), Post-Impressionism (c. 1885–1905), Fauvism (c. 1898–1908), Expressionism (c. 1905–1933), Surrealism (c. 1924–1950) (55,094 bytes total)

Original maps and graphics

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  Distribution of 11 species (and partial distribution of a 12th) of turtles in the genus Graptemys
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  Geographic distribution of three species of Ctenosaura: (C. acanthura, C. pectinata, C. similis)
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  Lepidochelys kempii distribution: red = nesting beach; green= adult male; dark blue = adult female; mid-blue = juvenile & subadult; arrows = Gulf Strean; light blue = accidentals and vagrants, black dots = verified records
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  Distribution of the Yucatán Cantil, (Agkistrodon russeolus)
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  Geographic distribution of cottonmouths, Agkistrodon piscivorus and Agkistrodon conanti
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  Baygalls are shallow wetlands that typically form on the terraces of forest slopes or on the margins of floodplains.
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  Map with five interpretations of the Big Thicket
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  Geological formations (diagonal center) of the Big Thicket Basin and the Epochs in which they were formed (lower right)
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  Tamaulipan Mezquital Map

Images

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  Grass-pink Orchid (Calopogon sp.), Tyler Co., Texas (1 May 2020)
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  A blackwater stream, Big Thicket National Preserve, Polk Co. Texas (23 Mar 2020)
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  Ladies'-tresses Orchid (Spiranthes sp.), Tyler Co., Texas (11 May 2012)
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  Big Thicket National Preserve, Hardin Co., Texas (16 April 2020)
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  Pinewoods Lily (Alophia drummondii), Hardin Co., Texas (11 May 2012)

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  Texas Banded Gecko (Coleonyx brevis), Webb Co. Texas
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  Slowinski’s cornsnake (Pantherophis slowinskii) in-situ, Colorado Co., Texas (May 2018)
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  American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) in-situ, Chambers Co. Texas (27 April 2012)

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  East Texas Toad (Anaxyrus velatus) or (A. woodhousii x fowleri) Hardin Co. Texas
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  Blackwater/muddy water, Big Thicket National Preserve, Hardin Co., Texas (3 April 2020)
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  Texas map turtle (Graptemys versa) in situ, Travis Co. Texas (12 April 2012)
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  Pitcher plant flower (Sarracenia alata), Tyler County, Texas (1 May 2020)
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  Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor) in-situ, Montgomery Co. Texas

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  Ranchland with wildflowers, Lavaca Co., Texas (19 April 2014)
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  Northern crested caracara (Caracara cheriway), Colorado Co., Texas (24 May 2014)
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  Attwater’s Pockrt Gopher (Geomys attwateri), Colorado Co. Texas (12 May 2014)
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  Fox Glove (Penstemon cobaea), Lavaca Co., Texas (19 April 2014)

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  Texas bluebonnets (Lupinus texensis), Kerr Co., Texas (17 April 2015)
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  Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), Austin Co., Texas (30 January 2014)
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  Ranchland, Edwards Plateau, Mason Co., Texas (17 April 2015)

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  Mexican ground squirrel (Ictidomys mexicanus) Cameron Co. Texas (12 April 2016)
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  Tamaulipan Rock Rattlesnake (Crotalus morulus), Tamailipas, Mexico (27 May 2005)
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  Ruby Beach, Olympic National Park, Jefferson Co, Washington (6 June 2014)
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  Northern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus), in-situ, Napa Co. California (3 July 2012)

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  Greater Earless lizard (Cophosaurus texanus), male, Llano Co. Texas (2022)
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  Burrowing Toad (Rhinophrynus dorsalis), Tamaulipas, Mexico
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  Tamaulipan False Brook Salamander (Aquiloeurycea scandens), Tamaulipas, Mexico
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  Minor Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus minor) in-situ, Tamaulipas, Mexico (4 October 2008)
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  Taylor's Cantil (Agkistrodon taylori), female, Tamaulipas, Mexico (September 2007)

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  Tamaulipan thornscrub habitat, Webb Co., Texas, (10 June 2016)
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  Rio Guayalejo & Cerro del Bernal, Tamaulipas, Mexico (17 April 2001)
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  Cloud forest stream in El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, Tamaulipas, Mexico (24 September 2003)

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  Reserva natural del Valle de Iruelas, Castilla y León, Spain (27 August 2017)
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  Wuying National Forest, Heilongjiang, China (6 Sept 2016)
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  Siberian Salamander (Salamandrella keyserlingii), Heilongjiang, China (8 September 2016)
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  Jinshanling Great Wall, Pan Long Shan Scenic Area, Hebei, China (17 September 2014)

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  Wrangell - St Elias National Park and Preserve, near Chitina, Alaska (28 June 2009)
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  Muskox (Ovibos moschatus), Dalton Highway (Hwy 11) Northern Slope Borough, Alaska (10 August 2010)
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  Wrangell - St Elias National Park and Preserve, Chitina, Alaska (28 June 2009)