Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[ConcinusMan]

American mink!? What a Bar steward Over here they've nearly wiped out the water vole (Ratty from Wind in the willows)

Ground nesting birds, amphibians.

The Pacific Northwest is infested with mink too.(they're descended from local mink farm escapees) I spotted quite a few of them while herping for blue pugets on the Nisqually Delta in WA and I've seen them along Lewis Co. streams too. I'm not sure what kind of impact they really have here though since in most areas they are basically just filling a niche that was once occupied by other native members of the genus. Those other members were once common in the northwest but were extirpated and/or nearly wiped from these habitats by the end of the 19th century.

So I was on the Houston Zoo website on the reptiles page, and it says check out some of our reptiles, and has a list. I clicked on Gulf Coast Ribbon, and it comes up with "Scientific Name: Thamnophis sauritus" THE ZOO!!

Yeah, Gulf Coast ribbon is Thamnophis proximus orarius. Don't be too hard on them, I sometimes slip up and say 'sauritus' when I mean 'proximus' and visa-versa.

:grr:

Photos aren't very good, but I suspect the seller has no idea what it is. Can't really see how much of it looks Cuitzeo, but what I can see looks like a mutt.

I can't see enough of it to even take a guess what it is.

[StrmChasr]

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[Stefan-A]

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[ProXimuS]

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I came across this and thought it was cute But I was also wondering if this is a European grass snake?

[guidofatherof5]

I'm guessing Natrix natrix.

[ProXimuS]

I thought Natrix natrix was a European grass snake

[guidofatherof5]

I thought Natrix natrix was a European grass snake

It is.

Natrix natrix = European grass snake

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/14368/0

[-MARWOLAETH-]

I recently found out that there are Aesculapian Snakes (Zamenis Longissimus) in a park in London and near a Zoo in North Wales they escaped from back in the 70s. Fossil evidence shows that this species ranged into Northan Europe before the Iceage. They are filling the same role that they would in their current range in Southern Europe-eating rodents and the occasional bird.Its a similar story in Souther Germany where the Romans introduced then two thousand years ago. What do you guys think about this?

[Stefan-A]

I recently found out that there are Aesculapian Snakes (Zamenis Longissimus) in a park in London and near a Zoo in North Wales they escaped from back in the 70s. Fossil evidence shows that this species ranged into Northan Europe before the Iceage. They are filling the same role that they would in their current range in Southern Europe-eating rodents and the occasional bird.Its a similar story in Souther Germany where the Romans introduced then two thousand years ago. What do you guys think about this?

Reintroduction. Also, I don't count anything in the central third on the north-south axis to be "northern".

[StrmChasr]

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