Article: Population Dynamics of the Concho Water Snake in Rivers and Reservoirs

Article: North West water snake turns on seer.(News)
The Saturday Star (South Africa);  March 17, 2007 ;     297 words ......people in North West who believed a water snake would cause a huge tidal wave to swamp...in December last year: “A water snake in the form of a merman with a face...replied “Yes.” The water snake gave her 30 days to collect money. The...

Article: Northern water snakes do not disappoint.(Virginia Beach Beacon)
The Virginian Pilot;  June 12, 2005 ;     459 words ......what I knew was one of many northern water snake hangouts in the park. These handsome...Brown sent me. They were of a northern water snake dining on what looked like an oyster...on them. Nonpoisonous, the northern water snake has the unfortunate luck to be similar...

Article: SSSSAINSBURY'S.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);  April 30, 2005 ;     18 words ...A VIPERINE water snake was found in a bag of Spanish celery by a pensioner at a Sainsbury's store in Bourne, Lincs.

Article: Population Patterns of Copperbelly Water Snakes (Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta) in a Riparian Corridor Impacted by Mining and Reclamation
The American Midland Naturalist;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......mining (3.32 0.76). No Copperbelly Water Snake was observed in reclaimed habitat...species. INTRODUCTION The Copperbelly Water Snake (Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta) is a subspecies of the Plainbelly Water Snake having a disjunct distribution...

Article: Tests for senescent decline in annual survival probabilities of Common Pochards, Aythya ferina.
Ecology;  June 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......dynamics reported the generalization that annual survival rates after attainment of maturity...of bird species showing declines in annual survival rate with increasing age (Newton 1989...1987) found evidence of a decline in annual survival rates of Black-capped Chickadees...

Article: With population below 2,000 in 1999, water snake returns
Dayton Daily News;  October 23, 2006 ;     451 words ......bass, threatening sport fisheries. "The water snake is now eating gobies almost exclusively...up at Putin-Bay in 2000, the year the water snake was designated as endangered in Ohio...Erie islands landscape, the Lake Erie Water Snake. The snake for decades had been hunted...

Article: Snake vs. fish: who'll win and survive?
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  August 26, 2007 ;     502 words ......where I stood, mouth agape, watching a water snake do battle with a brown trout. The snake...that had the front half of a 24-inch water snake still sticking out of its gullet/mouth...with its mouth and gut crammed full of water snake, still obeyed its predatory instinct...

Article: Annual survival rates of female hooded mergansers and wood ducks in southeastern Missouri.
Wilson Bulletin;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Estimates of annual survival are important for comparative...conservation and management. Annual survival rate estimates are available...expected to exhibit differences in annual survival rates. Hooded Mergansers are...

Article: ENDANGERED, BUT UNLOVED
Dayton Daily News;  April 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ......but nonpoisonous bite. The Lake Erie Water Snake, which calls Kelleys Island on Lake...hosting numerous nature tours. He sees the water snake, like the glacial limestone grooves...the primary habitats of the Lake Erie Water Snake. His group outbid the Cleveland Museum...

Article: ENDANGERED SPECIES PETITION FOR POTOMAC RIVER WATER SNAKE FOUND NOT SUBSTANTIAL
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 11, 2006 ;     312 words ......Species Act protection for the northern water snake failed to provide substantial scientific...petition sought protection of the northern water snake in the upper tidal Potomac River as...the upper tidal Potomac River northern water snake on the List of Endangered and Threatened...

Article: hydra
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English;      100 words ......French (( (h)ydre , idre from) Latin hydra from Greek hudra water snake). A. noun 1. LME Greek Mythology (also Hydra ) A monster with...M16 Any terrible serpent or reptile. rhetorical . 5. E17 A water snake. 6. L18 Any of several hydrozoans of the genus Hydra that...

Article: Snake eats fish.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
New York State Conservationist;  June 1, 2005 ;     157 words ......Mike Mercier Averill Park, Rensselaer County The snake in question is a northern water snake, Nerodia sipedon. The banding pattern on the copperhead and water snake are very different and easily recognized once you become familiar with them. Copperheads...

Article: My friend Boris.(water snake behavior)
Ranger Rick;  August 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......Nope, Boris is special. He's a northern water snake as long as my arm! Our friendship had...told me that I probably was. Once a water snake finds an area that has plenty of food...may hang around for years. (Since a water snake can live for as many as 12 years, Boris...

Article: Survival and Cause-specific Mortality of Adult Coyotes (Canis latrans) in Central Mississippi
The American Midland Naturalist;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......central Mississippi during 1993-1997. Annual survival did not differ between sexes or across...Andelt, 1985). In northern latitudes annual survival rates may vary substantially (0.38...reported greater and less variable annual survival rates (0.68-0.70) for adult coyotes...