{"id":2886,"date":"2026-07-02T05:39:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:40:10","slug":"sonoran-sidewinder-near-phoenix-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/sonoran-sidewinder-near-phoenix-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonoran Sidewinder Near Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is one of several <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/cerastes\/cercobombus\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"153\">Sonoran Sidewinders<\/a> (Crotalus cerastes cercobombus) we found near Phoenix a while back on a hot night. These small rattlesnakes are abundant in the right habitat. Still, they are rarely seen by hikers, because the flat, sandy soil of the Colorado River subdivision of Sonoran Desert is rarely a scenic destination for hikers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-cerastes-cercobombus_9160-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-cerastes-cercobombus_9160-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-cerastes-cercobombus_9160-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-cerastes-cercobombus_9160-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-cerastes-cercobombus_9160-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-cerastes-cercobombus_9160-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of several Sonoran Sidewinders (Crotalus cerastes cercobombus) we found near Phoenix a while back on a hot night. These small rattlesnakes are abundant in the right habitat. Still, they are rarely seen by hikers, because the flat, sandy soil of the Colorado River subdivision of Sonoran Desert is rarely a scenic destination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[151,153,136,135,139],"tags":[356,786,787],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cerastes","category-cercobombus","category-rattlesnakes","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-colorado-river","tag-sonoran-desert","tag-sandy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","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=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}