Chicken Snake
Spilotes pullatus
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassSquamata
- FamilyColubridae (Colúbrids)
- GenusSpilotes
- SpeciesSpilotes pullatus (Chicken Snake)
Closest Relatives at Braulio Carrillo National Park
Blunthead Tree Snake
Imantodes cenchoa
Cloudy Snail-eating Snake
Sibon nebulatus
Mottled Snail-eater
Sibon longifrenis
Black Halloween Snake
Pliocercus euryzonus
Adorned Graceful Brown Snake
Rhadinaea decorata
Western Tree Snake
Imantodes inornatus
Ornate Cat-eyed Snake
Leptodeira ornata
Red Coffee Snake
Ninia sebae
Cope's Parrot Snake
Leptophis depressirostris
Puffing Snake
Phrynonax poecilonotus
Ecuador Sipo
Chironius grandisquamis
Gray Earth Snake
Geophis brachycephalus
📅 Monthly Probability
☀️ When They're Spotted
Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)
Global Distribution
Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.
where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is) · parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there
Parks Where Found
Quick answers
What are the chances of seeing a Chicken Snake in Braulio Carrillo National Park?
About 7% of visitor-days record a Chicken Snake sighting in Braulio Carrillo National Park, based on 8 observer-days of citizen-science data from GBIF.
When is the best time to see Chicken Snake in Braulio Carrillo National Park?
January has the highest sighting rate for Chicken Snake in Braulio Carrillo National Park in our monthly data.