An eastern fox snake Adam found in the woods on Pelee Island, 2018 (above). Two large eastern fox snakes sunning themselves on some rocks along the Lake Erie shore on Pelee Island, with a Lake Erie water snake behind them, 2018.

Eastern Fox Snake

Scientific Name: Pantherophis gloydi

Status: Threatened/Endangered

Habitat: Forests, Wetlands, near water

Threats: Habitat Loss, Roads, Shoreline development, Human Persecution

Photographed: July 2018, Pelee Island, Ontario.

Did you know?

Fox snakes can grow up to 179.1 cm (five feet eight inches)!
One of Canada's largest snakes
Needs habitat along lakeshores and rivers, which has increasingly disappeared due to development pressures
A constrictor, it coils around its prey and feeds on mice, other rodents, and small birds
Often misidentified as a venomous rattlesnake and killed in fear

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