I want to see anyones Copperhead pictures.
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I want to see anyones Copperhead pictures.
I would like to see some of the pictures that anyone on this forum has taken of Copperheads. I don't care what kind. I am just really interested in see what everyone has seen.
Thanks to anyone who posts any pictures.
Thanks to anyone who posts any pictures.
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Tons of them around here, I find one almost everytime I go out. Unfortunately I run into them mostly at night now, so I don't have a lot of the recent finds preserved in digital. Most of these are from earlier this spring, but here's a general review of Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix, the Southern Copperhead:
Abberant Pattern from Friday:
Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix (Southern Copperhead) by Kyle L.E., on Flickr
And the rest of the gang:
Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix (Southern Copperhead) by Kyle L.E., on Flickr
Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix (Southern Copperhead) by Kyle L.E., on Flickr
Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix (Southern Copperhead) by Kyle L.E., on Flickr
Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix (Southern Copperhead) by Kyle L.E., on Flickr
Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix by Kyle L.E., on Flickr
Abberant Pattern from Friday:
Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix (Southern Copperhead) by Kyle L.E., on Flickr
And the rest of the gang:
Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix (Southern Copperhead) by Kyle L.E., on Flickr
Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix (Southern Copperhead) by Kyle L.E., on Flickr
Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix (Southern Copperhead) by Kyle L.E., on Flickr
Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix (Southern Copperhead) by Kyle L.E., on Flickr
Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix by Kyle L.E., on Flickr
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Oh those first two look killer! The pattern on that first is just amazing.
I have not had the chance to see any Copperheads in person this year. Only seen one Timber rattlesnake and thats it.
I have not had the chance to see any Copperheads in person this year. Only seen one Timber rattlesnake and thats it.
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Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to see any Southerns yet, so the few I can actually find at the moment won't compare but, here's one:
Not taken in habitat.
Not taken in habitat.
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Osage Copperheads:
Trans Pecos Copperheads:
Southern Copperheads:
I have only seen 3 northern copperheads, but it was before I took pictures. I have only seen 2 live laticinctus, and I didn't bring a camera.
Dan
Trans Pecos Copperheads:
Southern Copperheads:
I have only seen 3 northern copperheads, but it was before I took pictures. I have only seen 2 live laticinctus, and I didn't bring a camera.
Dan
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Osage insitu from a few weeks back in KS. Found under tin.
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A.c.laticinctus
A.c.pictigaster
A.c.contortrix (or A.c.contortrix x A.c.mokason)
A.c.pictigaster
A.c.contortrix (or A.c.contortrix x A.c.mokason)
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Phaeogaster from Mo.
KS
Pictigaster
KS
Pictigaster
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Agkistrodon contortrix pictigaster - Northwstern Val Verde County, Texas
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My first broadband found last year.
A few southerns
Chris
A few southerns
Chris
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Here's a few Texas snakes...
Southern from east TX -
Broad-band from North Central TX -
a Trans-Pecos from west central TX (although I think pictigaster = laticinctus anyway) -
and another Trans-Pecos from the northwestern side of their range (Davis Mts)
Southern from east TX -
Broad-band from North Central TX -
a Trans-Pecos from west central TX (although I think pictigaster = laticinctus anyway) -
and another Trans-Pecos from the northwestern side of their range (Davis Mts)
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2 males doing their thing
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A. c. contortrix x phaeogaster, Northwest Arkansas
A. c. contortrix, Southeast Arkansas
Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix - Southern copperhead by michaelrayspencer, on Flickr
A. c. contortrix, Southeast Arkansas
Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix - Southern copperhead by michaelrayspencer, on Flickr
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Pair seen this April in S.C.First l've seen in years other than DORs
Such a beautiful snake I airbrushed it on a Tshirt
Such a beautiful snake I airbrushed it on a Tshirt
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Southern Copperhead by cooneaw, on Flickr
Copperhead by cooneaw, on Flickr
Copperhead by cooneaw, on Flickr
Copperhead by cooneaw, on Flickr
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Found this nice pale individual in SC a couple of weeks ago, in situ.
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A couple north GA copperheads.
Interesting. Why do you say that? I see similarities, but it seems that from the photos I have seen the characteristics of the two hold up well. Very cool animals either way, and hopefully I will have the opportunity to see them some day.chrish wrote:although I think pictigaster = laticinctus anyway
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I've posted a zillion of poorly composed voucher shots, and taken my share of heat for boring everyone with copperheads. Search my posts, you'll find a bunch. I dare not repost them.
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Broad-banded Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus)
Wise County, Texas
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Come on, Don, I love your chunkhead pics.Don wrote:I've posted a zillion of poorly composed voucher shots, and taken my share of heat for boring everyone with copperheads. Search my posts, you'll find a bunch. I dare not repost them.
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Here's some of mine:
East Baton Rouge Parish, LA:
West Feliciana Parish, LA:
Earth Co, TX:
Hardin Co, TX:
Palo Pinto Co, TX:
Tarrant Co, TX:
Wise Co, TX:
East Baton Rouge Parish, LA:
West Feliciana Parish, LA:
Earth Co, TX:
Hardin Co, TX:
Palo Pinto Co, TX:
Tarrant Co, TX:
Wise Co, TX:
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It's my fault, but just because you seem to be the only other person who regularly posts from SC (I needed someone to pick on!). I never meant it to make you feel bad about your copperheads.Don wrote:I've posted a zillion of poorly composed voucher shots, and taken my share of heat for boring everyone with copperheads. Search my posts, you'll find a bunch. I dare not repost them.
Now that I've moved to Columbia, feel free to pick on me for the water snakes I'll ultimately be reduced to.
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They are (obviously!) My favorite also. there is a bigger version of my avatar shot in my intro post:
http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... 13#p150013
http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... 13#p150013
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No apology necessary, Mike.......you were one of many, and it was all in good clean fun. I think i posted a Nerodia once, so rock on without fear of reprisal!
For my next feat, I think I'll do a series on racers...............until I find something else.
For my next feat, I think I'll do a series on racers...............until I find something else.
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Ok, probably not what you were thinking of, but these are what we know as Copperheads over here in Australia. Unlike your Copperheads, these are elapids.James1617 wrote:I would like to see some of the pictures that anyone on this forum has taken of Copperheads. I don't care what kind. I am just really interested in see what everyone has seen.
Pygmy Copperhead Austrelaps labialis Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Lowland Copperhead Austrelaps superbus Sale, Victoria
Highland Copperhead Austrelaps ramsayi Blue Mountains, Sydney
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I live in East Texas, so all I encounter with regularity are A.c. contortrix, but here's a A. c. laticinctus I encountered while visiting family in Fort Worth:
(Sorry for the terrible quality, I nearly stepped on this one while climbing up the side of a dry creek embankment and I was in way too precarious a position to try to catch and pose it for pictures, so a shot from above was all I could manage.)
And here are all the Southerns I've found, all of which have been found in Brazos, Grimes, and San Jacinto counties.
The following are all from Sam Houston National Forest:
My personal favorite: a neonate in-situ, found under a small piece of metal when it was 55 degrees out.
Here are a handful I've found while road cruising in Grimes county:
And finally, a couple young ones from Brazos county:
Bonus - I made my own snake hook and the handle I designed with a foam copperhead on it. (The colors are wrong because I messed up with the alignment of the right colored foam pieces.)
Thanks for looking.
(Sorry for the terrible quality, I nearly stepped on this one while climbing up the side of a dry creek embankment and I was in way too precarious a position to try to catch and pose it for pictures, so a shot from above was all I could manage.)
And here are all the Southerns I've found, all of which have been found in Brazos, Grimes, and San Jacinto counties.
The following are all from Sam Houston National Forest:
My personal favorite: a neonate in-situ, found under a small piece of metal when it was 55 degrees out.
Here are a handful I've found while road cruising in Grimes county:
And finally, a couple young ones from Brazos county:
Bonus - I made my own snake hook and the handle I designed with a foam copperhead on it. (The colors are wrong because I messed up with the alignment of the right colored foam pieces.)
Thanks for looking.
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Ooooooh DANG! Man it feels weird to say this but copperheads are about the ONLY thing I miss from Kansas. Copperheads are tough to come by here in Oregon.
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This is a bad photo and the only one I got a descent photo of at all this year. It was with my crappy camera phone. He was also pre shed that didnt help but most of the ones we have are a pretty bland and dark color like this one. It was about 10 feet from the front door of where I work and I moved him a little bit down the hill away from the door lol. Anyway, he is a Dickenson County VA mokasen.
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mokasen from Connecticut.
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My favorite Northern.
Southern from Florida
Having some sort of a party
The result of the party
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1 of 4 found in North GA. a few years back.
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Sorry James, I got no pics for you, I don't really do pics. Or, I do intensely crappy pics. Lots of folks here doing NICE! pics.
However, this was asked:
http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/1024.pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... x/abstract (sorry, couldn't find pdf at cnah - here's abstract)
and here's a blurb sort of synthesizing the 2 (scroll down a tad; splitter-haters will cringe, maybe...but the names aren't just labels, they're also meant to demonstrate relatedness...so they change as knowledge evolves)
http://www.cnah.org/research.asp
Thanks all for sharing - great photos, great snakes.
cheers,
Jimi
However, this was asked:
So uh, the similarities have been worked on in other ways, like these 2 - which basically support Chris:chrish wrote:
although I think pictigaster = laticinctus anyway
Interesting. Why do you say that? I see similarities, but it seems that from the photos I have seen the characteristics of the two hold up well. Very cool animals either way, and hopefully I will have the opportunity to see them some day.
http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/1024.pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... x/abstract (sorry, couldn't find pdf at cnah - here's abstract)
and here's a blurb sort of synthesizing the 2 (scroll down a tad; splitter-haters will cringe, maybe...but the names aren't just labels, they're also meant to demonstrate relatedness...so they change as knowledge evolves)
http://www.cnah.org/research.asp
Thanks all for sharing - great photos, great snakes.
cheers,
Jimi
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Here's one I found yesterday evening, right after a nice little burst of Rain.
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I think if you look at Copperheads across Texas from east to west, you do see a more distinct change from the SE Texas snakes to the central Texas laticinctus. But as you head west from Central Texas, they just get a little more ventral pattern. I have seen snakes from Central Texas (and up around the DFW area) that would be called pictigaster if you moved them across the Pecos river.Stohlgren wrote:Interesting. Why do you say that? I see similarities, but it seems that from the photos I have seen the characteristics of the two hold up well. Very cool animals either way, and hopefully I will have the opportunity to see them some day.chrish wrote:although I think pictigaster = laticinctus anyway
And Jimi's links suggest the molecular data support that as well. I know this is almost sacrilege here on the FHF, but I think Guiher and (dare I say the name... ) Burbrink's map in figure 1 is a much better arrangement of the Copperheads. There should be an eastern, western and central copperhead taxon, although I don't agree with the CNAH implication that they should be separate species.
Part of the problem is that "pictigaster" comes from a "cool" herping area and people like those sorts of areas to have distinct taxonomic groups. If laticinctus lived in eastern Tennessee and pictigaster in western Tennessee, I think most people would feel the taxonomic distinction was unwarranted.
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Saratoga- kickass on the Austrelaps! I hoped they'd turn up when I opened this post.
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all from WNC
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very interesting and cool thanks for postingGynophile wrote:I live in East Texas, so all I encounter with regularity are A.c. contortrix, but here's a A. c. laticinctus I encountered while visiting family in Fort Worth:
(Sorry for the terrible quality, I nearly stepped on this one while climbing up the side of a dry creek embankment and I was in way too precarious a position to try to catch and pose it for pictures, so a shot from above was all I could manage.)
And here are all the Southerns I've found, all of which have been found in Brazos, Grimes, and San Jacinto counties.
The following are all from Sam Houston National Forest:
My personal favorite: a neonate in-situ, found under a small piece of metal when it was 55 degrees out.
Here are a handful I've found while road cruising in Grimes county:
And finally, a couple young ones from Brazos county:
Bonus - I made my own snake hook and the handle I designed with a foam copperhead on it. (The colors are wrong because I messed up with the alignment of the right colored foam pieces.)
Thanks for looking.
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mating pair from IL
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Have you found any copperheads outside the known populations in Van Buren an Lee Counties.Don Becker wrote:
I have found some old historical accounts from several other counties (including Johnson and Fremont). I woould appreciate knowing of any other counties where they may have occurred.
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mating copperheads by Tamara McConnell1, on Flickr
mating copperheads2 by Tamara McConnell1, on Flickr
Coppers mating, north Baldwin County, AL, 2012
edited to add: I assume it is mating. I suppose it could be males doing their combat thing. I don't know copperheads well enough to be able to tell. So mating is just my guess.
mating copperheads2 by Tamara McConnell1, on Flickr
Coppers mating, north Baldwin County, AL, 2012
edited to add: I assume it is mating. I suppose it could be males doing their combat thing. I don't know copperheads well enough to be able to tell. So mating is just my guess.