Chicken Snake
Spilotes pullatus
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassSquamata
- FamilyColubridae (Colúbrids)
- GenusSpilotes
- SpeciesSpilotes pullatus (Chicken Snake)
Closest Relatives at Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge
Köhler’s Vine Snake
Oxybelis koehleri
Blunthead Tree Snake
Imantodes cenchoa
Cloudy Snail-eating Snake
Sibon nebulatus
Ornate Cat-eyed Snake
Leptodeira ornata
Adorned Graceful Brown Snake
Rhadinaea decorata
American Snail-eater
Dipsas articulata
Yellowbelly Snake
Coniophanes fissidens
Puffing Snake
Phrynonax poecilonotus
Cope's Parrot Snake
Leptophis depressirostris
Western Tree Snake
Imantodes inornatus
Cope's Vine Snake
Oxybelis brevirostris
Ringed Snail Sucker
Sibon annulatus
📅 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 Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge?
About 10% of visitor-days record a Chicken Snake sighting in Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, based on 9 observer-days of citizen-science data from GBIF.
When is the best time to see Chicken Snake in Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge?
September has the highest sighting rate for Chicken Snake in Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge in our monthly data.