Bullsnake preying on mallard eggs at Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge in South Dakota

A brown-white-and-tan-patterned snake is sprawled atop nine white eggs in a nest with its fangs and jaw open on one of the eggs

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Tom Koerner/USFWS

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A bullsnake preys on a mallard nest at Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge in South Dakota.

Facility

Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge

Ecosystem

Prairie

Rural

Species

Anas platyrhynchos

Pituophis

Subject tags

Birds

Waterfowl

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