by Ojibway Massasauga | Jun 8, 2021 | Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery
The prairie rattlesnake, Crotalus viridis. Photo courtesy of J.N. Stuart. “Rattlesnakes” and “cities” are two words that aren’t often thought of as complementary. However, around the world there are major urban areas where people live...
by Ojibway Massasauga | Apr 22, 2021 | Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery, Reptiles & Amphibians, Species at Risk
An eastern gartersnake (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis) spending the winter of 2019/20 in an artificial hibernaculum at the Ojibway Prairie Provincial Park. Photograph was taken with a flexible borescope camera. The primary goal of the Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery...
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 | Jan 20, 2021 | Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery
In this video, Kelly Antaya, field technician for the Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery program in Windsor-Essex region, Ontario, uses a borescope camera to check on the eastern garter snakes hibernating in one of our artificial hibernaculum. WPC’s hibernation...
by Ojibway Massasauga | Dec 16, 2020 | Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery, Reptiles & Amphibians
In this short video 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 that make up an...
