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Posts Tagged ‘eastern indigo snake’

Eastern Indigo Snake Surveys Begin as Breeding Season Starts

By Barbara Linstrom | December 3, 2025 | 0

SCCF biologists and permittees began annual eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon couperi) surveys in November as cold fronts triggered breeding activity. The wintertime mating season is considered a major factor in…

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SCCF Biologists Present at South Florida Herpeton Conference

By Barbara Linstrom | September 30, 2024

SCCF’s Coastal Wildlife and Wildlife & Habitat Management departments took part in the 2024 Herpeton Conference, which took place Sept. 27-29 at Florida SouthWestern State College. SCCF helped sponsor the conference.  …

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Are there Indigo Snakes on Cayo Costa?

By Barbara Linstrom | December 6, 2023

The SCCF Pine Island Sound Eastern Indigo Snake Project began monitoring and researching the remaining populations of these rare and protected eastern indigo snakes (Drymarchon couperi) on the islands of…

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Rare Eastern Indigo Snake Sighted

By Barbara Linstrom | June 27, 2023

On June 14, SCCF collected data and marked and released a young female Eastern Indigo Snake (Drymarchon couperi) on an island in Pine Island Sound. This was the first documented…

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SCCF Hosts Jeff Corwin

By Barbara Linstrom | February 7, 2023

Corwin meets with staff, gives McCarthy Lecture

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Rare Summer Sighting of Eastern Indigo Snake

By Barbara Linstrom | July 6, 2022

SCCF Biologists respond to report on island in Pine Island Sound

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Sss-eeking Solutions for the Eastern Indigo Snake

By Barbara Linstrom | February 9, 2022

This docile snake has been extirpated on Sanibel and Captiva

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Seeking Sightings of Eastern Indigo Snakes

By Barbara Linstrom | April 12, 2021

Not to be confused with the common black racer

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