Gopher Snake Searching Cliff Swallow Nests in East Central Utah

Nicholas J. Czaplewski; Kent S. Smith; John Johnson; Crystal Dockery; Brandon Mason; Ian D. Browne

doi:10.3398/064.072.0112

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Nicholas J. Czaplewski,¹ Kent S. Smith,² John Johnson,² Crystal Dockery,² Brandon Mason,² Ian D. Browne²

¹Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Avenue, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072. E-mail: nczaplewski@ou.edu
²Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, 1111 W. 17th Street, Tulsa, OK 74107.

Abstract

We report details of a serendipitous encounter in July 2010 with a gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer) hunting in the mud nests of Cliff Swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota). The swallow nests occurred beneath a deeply overhung sandstone cliff ledge in a box canyon of Ferron Creek in the shale deserts near Ferren, Emery County, Utah. The inaccessibility of the nests and the movement of the snake to and through them attest to both the extraordinary climbing ability of the gopher snake and the nest site selection and nest construction ability of the swallows.

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Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Kent S. Smith, John Johnson, Crystal Dockery, Brandon Mason, and Ian D. Browne "Gopher Snake Searching Cliff Swallow Nests in East Central Utah," Western North American Naturalist 72(1), 96-99, (1 April 2012). https://doi.org/10.3398/064.072.0112

Received: 14 April 2011; Accepted: 1 November 2011; Published: 1 April 2012

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