Mutual Mortality of Great Horned Owl and Southern Black Racer: a Potential Risk of Raptors Preying on Snakes

Roger W. Perry; Raymond E. Brown; D. Craig Rudolph

doi:10.1676/0043-5643(2001)113[0345:MMOGHO]2.0.CO;2

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Roger W. Perry,^*,** Raymond E. Brown,^***,**** D. Craig Rudolph^***

^*USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Hot Springs, AR 71902, USA
^**Corresponding author;rperry03@fs.fed.us
^***USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Nacogdoches, TX 75962, USA
^****Current address: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Austin Ecological Services, Austin, TX 78758, USA

Abstract

We encountered a dead southern black racer snake (Coluber constrictor priapus) coiled around a dead Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus). We suggest the owl was strangled by the snake before the snake died of wounds inflicted by the owl. There are previous reports of intense physical struggle between Great Horned Owls (and other raptors) and large constrictors but this is the first documented report of mutual mortality between a Great Horned Owl and a snake.

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Roger W. Perry, Raymond E. Brown, and D. Craig Rudolph "Mutual Mortality of Great Horned Owl and Southern Black Racer: a Potential Risk of Raptors Preying on Snakes," The Wilson Bulletin 113(3), 345-347, (1 September 2001). https://doi.org/10.1676/0043-5643(2001)113[0345:MMOGHO]2.0.CO;2

Received: 19 October 2000; Accepted: 1 August 2001; Published: 1 September 2001

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