Snakes Eastern NorthAmerica (Live, noncaptive, include location)

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About Snakes Eastern NorthAmerica (Live, noncaptive, include location)

Live, non-captive snakes photographed in eastern USA or in eastern Canada.

Always put the location of the photo in the photo description.
At a minimum, something like "southern Illinois".

Geographic area:
We'll be flexible as to the exact geographic area that the group covers. If you think it's an eastern snake, you can put it into the group.
As a guideline:
This group will include photos of snakes taken in, or east of, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, or Ontario in continental North America. In addition photos of snakes taken farther west in North America will also be included only if the range of the subspecies extends to the east of the Mississippi River.

Let's not include desert snakes. Desert snakes are an entirely different bunch of snakes and there is another group specifically for desert snakes.

Noncaptive means anything other than a pet snake or a snake in a zoo (etc). The snake may be temporarily captive while you photograph it. It does not have to be photographed in a wild environment -- a wild snake in your bathroom or on your driveway is fine.

The goal is to develop an online field guide which might be useful to people who want to learn to identify the snakes they find in the field. Ideally, photos should look like photos in a field guide. The snake must be the subject of the photo. If there is a human in the photo, the snake must be more recognizable than the human.

If known, include the species name in the description.
If you are not sure of the species, please ask for help in identifying it.

Include at least a brief note as to how the snake was found. Like "found under garbage can" or "found on road in the evening".

Only live snakes.

Members of this group might add appropriate tags to any photo submitted to the group.

Limits:
Six photos per day per member.
No more than four photos of any individual snake.

We will also include glass lizards and worm lizards, and any other animal which might reasonably be mistaken for a snake.

I will delete any photo which I do not think belongs here.

Group founded on 26 Dec 2005 by Tom Spinker.

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Snake species

The Center for North American Herpetology maintains a list of common and scientific names for all snakes species in North America:
CNAH

A list of all snake species in eastern USA and Canada, with links which search our group's pool is in this discussion thread:

Eastern USA search list.


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Searching for species, etc

You can search the photos in this group by using the search box on every photo page. To make searching effective, please be generous in adding tags to your photos. The genus and the state in which the photo was taken should be included either as tags or in the photos title or description. Thus a search for "nerodia tennessee" should display all the photos of nerodia taken in Tennessee. State names should be written out, because the two-character abbreviations often match English words.