Hibernating snakes – Part 1

Posted onDecember 16, 2020|Massasauga Rattlesnake, News and Events, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery

What is the Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery Program? The Ojibway Prairie Complex and Greater Park Ecosystem (OPCGPE) in Ontario’s Windsor-LaSalle region is home to several reptile species threatened by urban development, habitat fragmentation and road mortality, including eastern foxsnakes, Butler’s gartersnakes, Blanding’s turtles and a critically endangered population of massasauga rattlesnakes. The Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery Team (OPRREC) works to protect, recover and monitor these species.

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 artificial hibernaculum, and how we install them in the field.

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