Chicken Snake
Spilotes pullatus
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassSquamata
- FamilyColubridae (Colúbrids)
- GenusSpilotes
- SpeciesSpilotes pullatus (Chicken Snake)
Closest Relatives at Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve
Red Coffee Snake
Ninia sebae
Blunthead Tree Snake
Imantodes cenchoa
Northern Cat-eyed Snake
Leptodeira septentrionalis
Speckled Racer
Drymobius margaritiferus
Mexican Parrot Snake
Leptophis mexicanus
Puffing Snake
Phrynonax poecilonotus
Orangebelly Swamp Snake
Tretanorhinus nigroluteus
Black-striped Snake
Coniophanes imperialis
Central American Milksnake
Lampropeltis abnorma
False Fer-de-lance
Xenodon rabdocephalus
Dryad Snake
Mastigodryas melanolomus
Coluber mentovarius
Masticophis mentovarius
📅 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 Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve?
About 9% of visitor-days record a Chicken Snake sighting in Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve, based on 5 observer-days of citizen-science data from GBIF.
When is the best time to see Chicken Snake in Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve?
October has the highest sighting rate for Chicken Snake in Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve in our monthly data.