Wildlife watching at a wetland area is a fun summer time activity.
Reptiles are cold-blooded vertebrates. Most lay eggs, have scaled plates and breathe through lungs.
The Butler's gartersnake is very hard to tell apart from its cousin, the plains gartersnake.
You're sitting on a dock, minding your own business, when you notice a snake swimming by in the water.
You can find this snake in oak savannas, prairies, marshes, old field, and under trash in vacant city lots.
Many people mistake this snake's coloration as a venomous copperhead snake and kill them out of fear.
Both false and southern map turtles are very wary and will flee at the slightest disturbance.
Like snakes, lizards belong to the animal kingdom, phylum Chordata (animals with backbones--also known as vertebrates).
The females of this species have large broad heads and jaws adapted for cracking mollusk and crayfish shells. Ouch!
This snake looks like the prairie ring-necked snake in size and color. The difference is in the belly.
With a name like racerunner, you'd have to be fast. And, as their name suggests, racerunners are very fast.
The name for this lizard is appropriate. When it's caught sometimes its tail breaks into many pieces like glass.
Softshells are easy to recognize by their long, pointed snouts and scuteless top shells (carapaces).
Unlike the large desert landscapes of the southwestern United States, the habitats that support Wisconsin's lizards are limited both naturally and by a growing human population.
At a Glance
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Wildlife watching at a wetland area is a fun summer time activity.
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The Butler's gartersnake is very hard to tell apart from its cousin, the plains gartersnake.
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The common gartersnake is, well, common.
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You're sitting on a dock, minding your own business, when you notice a snake swimming by in the water.
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You can find this snake in oak savannas, prairies, marshes, old field, and under trash in vacant city lots.