{"id":1413,"date":"2024-09-16T15:50:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T22:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2024-09-24T07:47:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T14:47:25","slug":"a-first-western-pygmy-rattlesnake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/a-first-western-pygmy-rattlesnake\/","title":{"rendered":"A First \u2013 Western Pygmy Rattlesnake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Western Pygmy Rattlesnake, Sistrurus miliarius streckeri \u2013 the first I have seen. This was actually a pretty big one! At around 18&#8243;-20&#8243;, it was much larger than the majority of Sistrurus sp. I&#8217;ve seen elsewhere, and about twice the size of the others found in subsequent days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This leaves one last subspecies of rattlesnake for me to see in the U.S., and a flight at some point to the Carolinas to finish it up. I&#8217;m not too much of a life-lister, but after so much time it would just be nice to complete something started long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1814\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sistrurus-miliarius-streckeri-_0849-Edit-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"A First \u2013 Western Pygmy Rattlesnake\" title=\"A First \u2013 Western Pygmy Rattlesnake\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sistrurus-miliarius-streckeri-_0849-Edit-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sistrurus-miliarius-streckeri-_0849-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sistrurus-miliarius-streckeri-_0849-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sistrurus-miliarius-streckeri-_0849-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sistrurus-miliarius-streckeri-_0849-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sistrurus-miliarius-streckeri-_0849-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Pygmy Rattlesnake, Sistrurus miliarius streckeri \u2013 the first I have seen. This was actually a pretty big one! At around 18&#8243;-20&#8243;, it was much larger than the majority of Sistrurus sp. I&#8217;ve seen elsewhere, and about twice the size of the others found in subsequent days. This leaves one last subspecies of rattlesnake for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[217,140,135,218,139],"tags":[219,220,221,222],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miliarius","category-sistrurus","category-snakes","category-streckeri","category-viperidae","tag-oklahoma","tag-pygmy","tag-life-list","tag-lifer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}