by Ojibway Massasauga | Jan 20, 2021 | Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery
In this video, Kelly Antaya, field technician for the Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery program in the Windsor-Chatham area of Ontario, uses a borescope camera to check on the eastern garter snakes hibernating in one of our artificial hibernaculum. WPC’s...
by Ojibway Massasauga | Dec 16, 2020 | Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery, Reptiles & Amphibians
In this short video, lead biologist Jonathan Choquette, Lead Biologist of the Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery Program in the Windsor/Essex area of Ontario, talks about our artificial hibernacula – burrows used by snakes for hibernation. See the different parts...
by Ojibway Massasauga | Nov 24, 2020 | Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery
In this quick video, the Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery team is installing artificial hibernacula in the Ojibway Prairie Complex. A hibernaculum (plural: hibernacula) is a shelter that snakes will use over-winter. With a long tube and multiple chambers at different...
by Ojibway Massasauga | Nov 24, 2020 | Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery, Reptiles & Amphibians
Baby eastern gartersnakes (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis) in WPC’s temporary housing facility. They will spend the winter of 2020/21 in artificial hibernacula as part of a hibernation habitat study...
by Ojibway Massasauga | Oct 21, 2020 | Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery, Reptiles & Amphibians, Species at Risk
An important part of the Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery program (OPRREC) in Ontario is that we share the results of our endangered species recovery work with the greater scientific community. This allows the possibility for conservation practitioners to learn from...
by Ojibway Massasauga | Sep 23, 2020 | Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery
A digger crayfish (Creaserinus fodiens), one of the few species of burrowing crayfish found at the Ojibway Prairie Nature Reserve. Since graduating two years ago from Fleming College, I have worked hands-on with a lot of different species including turtles, birds,...
