Coluber
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COLUBRIDS: Family - Colubridae
COLUBRIDS: Family - Colubridae
Subfamily - Colubrinae
Genus - Coluber
Genus - Coluber
SIGHTINGS pictures for this genus are listed below. This is to assist in visual
comparisons, as texts for this page are still yet unwritten.
comparisons, as texts for this page are still yet unwritten.
| WESTERN YELLOW-BELLIED RACER (Coluber constrictor mormon) |
| RACER (Coluber constrictor) |
| Western Yellow-bellied Racer (C. c. mormon) Oroville, CA (near "The Oaks") (Butte County) Oct. 21, 2007 |
| Juvenile Racer (with typical pattern) Tish Tang Road (Hoopa, CA) (eastern Humboldt County) (early 2000's?) |
| Sighting and Pictures by Bradford R. Norman |
| Western Yellow-bellied Racer (C. c. mormon) Manieze Prairie - Bald Hills Redwood National and State Parks (Humboldt County) June 26, 2008 |
| Western Yellow-bellied Racer (C. c. mormon) Hiouchi Flat, RNSP [GPS-HIOUCHI-COLUBER-01] (Del Norte County) April 23, 2009 Pictured: Jill Mechtenberg (RNSP volunteer) |
| Hiouchi Flat (Del Norte County) April 23, 2009 |
| PRAIRIE DRAMA! Western Yellow-bellied Racer (C. c. mormon) attempting to feed on adult male Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) Dolason Prairie, Bald Hills, RNSP (Humboldt County) June 2, 2009 [GPS-DOLASON-COLUBER-01HU] Pictured: Joshua Naumann (RNSP seasonal employee) The veg management crew at the park was amazed at the confrontation it witnessed while pulling Scotch Broom at Dolason Prairie. We saw both a racer and a 'blue-belly" basking on the same log. Both saw our approach and disappeared under the log, where they apparently met. Suddenly there was a blur of action in a tiny hollow at the end of the log. The first three pictures were indeed a blur of writhing coils and shining blue. It appeared that the racer was coiling to restrain rather than suffocate. It had the lizard by the hind leg and base of the tail. The fourth picture shows the fence lizard fighting back by biting the lower laterals of the snake's neck! The racer actually let go, and the lizard made a grand escape! The close-up in the middle shows the lizard's bite marks. What a sighting! |
| Western Yellow-bellied Racer (C. c. mormon) - juvenile with fading pattern Coyote Creek Prairie - Bald Hills, Redwood National and State Parks (Humboldt County) June 26, 2008 |