How to Use indigo snake in a Sentence

indigo snake

noun
  • The eastern indigo snake was found in Alabama for the second time in more than 60 years.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The eastern indigo snake is the longest snake native to North America, growing to over 8 feet long.
    Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 26 May 2021
  • Texas tortoises, indigo snake, Texas horned lizards – are found few other places.
    Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 4 May 2018
  • So in 2006, a team of Alabama conservationists launched a project to reintroduce the Eastern indigo snake to the state.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The eastern indigo snake used to rule Alabama’s longleaf pine forests as the apex predator, reaching lengths of up to nine feet, and feeding on copperheads and rattlesnakes.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 31 Dec. 2020
  • According to Auburn University, the eastern indigo snake is the longest native snake in North America, stretching to a size of 8.5 feet.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The good-guy snakes include but aren’t limited to the eastern hognose snake, Texas brown snake, Texas rat snake, rough green snake, garter snake, milk snake, bullsnake, kingsnake, indigo snake, black racer, water snake, blind snake and coachwhip.
    Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 8 June 2020
  • The last eastern indigo snake from a native Alabama population was caught in 1954.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Though the landscape might seem hospitable, this environment is also home to gopher tortoises, the rare eastern indigo snake, scrub lizards and insects.
    Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2022
  • The forests are home to a number of Alabama’s endangered or threatened species, including the red-cockaded woodpecker and the eastern indigo snake.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Biologists say the discovery of a juvenile indigo snake in Alabama is proof that those reintroduction efforts are working and that the species could find a permanent home in Alabama once again.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Texas indigo snakes regularly feed on smaller, venomous snakes.
    Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 12 June 2018
  • Others, including imperiled Eastern indigo snakes and burrowing owls, rely on tortoise accommodations to escape fire, cold and predation.
    Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Feb. 2018

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