#1650 · 🦎 reptiles

Northwestern Garter Snake

🇳🇱 Northwestern garter snake ·Thamnophis ordinoides

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Rand Workman · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © James Maughn · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © benet2006 · CC BY 4.0
4. © Linda Tanner · CC BY 4.0
5. Bray Way, Bellingham, WA, US:© cjslacker · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Friendly, Eugene, OR, USA:© Kid Herper · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. San Juan County, WA, USA:© thirty_legs · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. California, US:© Jonathan Hakim · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Olympia, WA, USA:© bvoss · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Oregon, US:© Rachel C. · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The northwestern garter snake ( Thamnophis ordinoides ) is a species of colubrid snake endemic to North America.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 17,200iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
17,200 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1852 (174 years ago).