by Ojibway Massasauga | Feb 24, 2021 | Eastern Foxsnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery
This neonate eastern foxsnake (Pantherophis vulpinus) was found crossing the road by an OPRREC technician between surveys. To the reptiles and amphibians living in the Ojibway Prairie Complex, roadways pose a grave threat. Roads create a deadly game of chance for any...
by Ojibway Massasauga | Feb 1, 2021 | Eastern Foxsnake, Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery
The Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery team has demonstrated building hibernaculum for hibernating snakes, and using a borescope camera to check on the snakes as they are hibernating, but one question remains…. How do they get the snakes IN the hibernaculum?...
by Ojibway Massasauga | May 21, 2020 | Eastern Foxsnake, Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery
Meet Matt Macpherson, WPC’s Lead Field Technician for the Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery (OPRREC) team in southwestern Ontario. When Matt joins a project, he likes to do some preliminary research. Here, he shares his discoveries of the natural history of the...
by Ojibway Massasauga | Jun 15, 2018 | Eastern Foxsnake, Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery
The summer months are just around the corner and our intense spring surveys are winding down. As the mark-recapture portion of our study comes to a bittersweet end, we can now expand our field surveys to new study sites in order to better understand eastern massasauga...
by Lake Erie Wetlands Wildlife | Sep 13, 2017 | Eastern Foxsnake
August has been an exciting month on the snake project portion of the Lake Erie Wetlands Wildlife program although we didn’t encounter many new eastern foxsnakes and there have been fewer sightings reported by visitors to Rondeau Provincial Park. Snake activity...
by Lake Erie Wetlands Wildlife | Aug 9, 2017 | Eastern Foxsnake
The Lake Erie Wetlands Wildlife team have continued to track our eastern foxsnakes throughout the summer on the shores of Lake Erie, Ontario, and boy have they been busy. The snakes were surgically implanted with transmitters to allow us to pick up a signal with a...
