Learn to Identify a venomous Copperhead Snake with 100% certainty! 

Thank you for not killing it. We need ALL SNAKES more than ever right now. Rats and Mice are running more and more rampant due to poisons killing off natural predators, and raptors, from second hand poisoning.

Amazing video! Northern Water Snakes and Eastern Milk Snakes are often mistaken to be Copperheads too. They are one of my favorite species or snake. Such beautiful patterns and they serve such a great purpose in our coastal, Piedmont, and mountainous ecosystems.

Been a tomboy all my life with critters and snakes and bugs... scorpions and the fuzzy kinds,... Feathers... so never too late to learn something new TY

Excellent channel my family and I enjoy it. I grew up spending as much time I could in the wood's learning about nature and wildlife. I think that's the best way to grow up. Take care and thank you

Wow thank you! I live in a forested area several blocks from a river. Very good info to know and you made it easy to understand.

Thanks for the video! I saw my first copperhead out in the woods in Roanoke Co. just this week. It was a beautiful snake. It caught my attention b/c it shook its tail at me, which made me notice that it was stretched across the trail but so well camouflaged that I didn't even notice it. I backed away and the snake never moved. I grew up hearing all kinds of tall tales about copperheads and I was glad to have had the opportunity to see one in the wild and doubly glad to see that you made a video! Keep up the great videos. I'm a huge fan!

Some good information in this video but some things are lacking also. I live and grew up in East Texas where we have an abundance of copperheads. One thing about the copperhead coloring that wasn't covered is it some copperheads depending on the time of year or male or female the darker part of the pattern can be almost non-existent. The lighter coppery brown color of the body will be dominant and you may not even see any pattern except for a faint evidence of it towards the tail. So if there's not really a pattern to go by you must be familiar with the thickness and stubbornness of the shape of the body. Copperheads or not long and skinny, if they reach 24 inches that's a pretty good size and they will have a thick body on them compared to most things. But you must be familiar with the head shape as he said and it's not just the triangle, look at pictures and learn to recognize the pit viper head once you know that it is easy to distinguish poisonous. And although their main habitat is outdoors, if the doors on your house or shed do not fit securely at the bottom, say if you can get down even with it and you can see in then a copperhead will wander in while he is hunting and may not be able to find his way out for a while because he is just randomly hunting and found a little crack to go through so they are on a semi regular basis found indoors. Also the main time that they are mobile and hunting instead of sitting still during the day ambushing, is right after it gets dark. If you have copperheads in your yard you can go out about a half hour after it gets dark with flashlight and be careful where you're stepping, and you can most likely find a couple maybe slithering down the driveway are moving along the edge of say a water hose or working their way along a root on top of the ground. This is one of their hunting techniques because it makes them harder to spot by their prey as they move along something along and skinny it disguises them. Also copperheads prefer dirt with leaves and sticks or some type debris if they kind of slither around under and through, as opposed to a manager lawn with grass. But they will cross through a yard so don't count that out. Also they like to get underneath things that are laying flat to the ground such as a piece of tin or a board to spend their day, so when moving something like that never stick your fingers underneath the edge to grab it to lift it up, if you do make it a very fast motion and he will be laying there motionless because you startled him. Sometimes I will get a stick or shovel to move the item first. Anyway this has become a long paragraph but I hope it keeps someone safe. And all of this is from 65 years of growing up around copperheads so it is all good info to add to what the gentleman has already told you

Absolutely beautiful snake! Copperheads were a big topic of conversation where I used to live (we were very rural, with lots of wooded areas) but we never worried about them any more than the other snakes and animals around us.

Another great and informative video Mr. Taylor.

I didn't see the Hershey kisses on the Copperhead! Camouflage no doubt as with all nature! Very awesome. I like that, don't waste the venum. That snake will end up back in your friends garage! 😂

I have a question! Do you know if copperheads eat toads? Like actively search out and hunt for Toads? I’ve always been worried I or my family would step on a copperhead outside my back door because we have a ton of wart frogs every year outside my back door and it’s hard not to step on the frogs! I’ve always told my wife I was worried about copperheads hunting the toad frogs and ending up biting us but so far it hasn’t happened!

Good morning Frank! Learned something new once again! Great job on the video! Thanks! Take care now! Be safe! 🙂

Great job, Frank!

I think the common water snakes there in Virginia look a lot like copperhead snakes. I only recently found out that copperheads don't really care to be around water much. Have you heard this, is it true? So many things I want to know about snakes and you and your channel help a lot. Thanks for the great work you do.

Love this video! So important not to transport them large distances, so I really appreciated you noting that the snake would not be moved very far. The other really obvious way to tell them from nonvenomous snakes is that they're pit vipers. If he doesn't have pits, he's not a copperhead. Also, the large superocular scale. It's not as obvious as in a rattlesnake but still pretty obvious, giving the eye a "hooded" look.

Great discussion on copperhead identification! Living in the South for most of my life, it was quite common to see someone identify the copperhead and then immediately look for a rake or something similar to kill it. Without exception, all the people I have seen who suffered a snakebite received it while going out of their way to harass the snake. Copperhead bites are rarely fatal unless involving a child or the elderly. The majority of envenomations do not even require the use of antivenin (among healthcare providers with experience). The older crotalid antivenin we used "back in the day" caused more serious problems (serum sickness) that the effects of the bite itself!

Great video thanks!

Thanks for this info;)! Living in Wisconsin; hopefully won’t run into any around home;)?!?? BUT, if I ‘wander’ south; I will know what to look out for!🐍✌️

Good info in this one, Frank.If someone didn't know how to identify a copperhead before, they will now. Good safety tips also.

Boy, I have à host of professionnal herp friends who would have been delighted to come across these little guys

Thank you.

Great video, could always do the triangle of the northern watersnake, cottonmouth, and copperhead. poor water snakes always being called one or the other

An awesome video. On game lands 251 we actually have a den site. You can sometimes see more than one sunning themselves.

When we moved into our rural Pennsylvania home we were told there were copperheads on the property. We've been here for 44 years and I've yet to see one. But after watching this video, I think it's highly probable that I have been close to them on several occasions. We have lots of stone fencerows that I have climbed on, as well as wooded areas where I've walked. I've seen lots of black snakes here though.

There were a lot of copperheads that would sun themselves on our gravel driveway in WV. I think they were more reddish than this one here.

That was awsome to be taught bc I will still run 🏃‍♀️ from them like the devil to the cross ✝️.

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I'm pretty sure copperheads are in the same family as the water moccasin but not as poison, I've called over hundreds of gray,black rat snakes here in Middle Tennessee. They can be very tame.

I grew up in Manassas, Va in a rather rural area. Copperheads were everywhere! Neighbors were always killing them. It was scary. My dad always killed them because he was concerned one of us would get bitten or one of our pets might get bitten too. One weekend, we were helping to chop wood and he killed 4 or 5! We had gone in to lunch, when we came out again, there was a copperhead sunning itself on top of the wood we had just cut, but had yet to put in the crib! My brother had a close call on that one! We never saw any other type of snake on the property, just the copperheads. Some were the greyish pinkish color you pointed out and some were more of the coppery color. Is there a difference? Thanks!

I've heard that copperheads have a distinct odor. Is that true?

I know a juvenile black rat snake but what's a juvenile copperhead look like?

Black snake mistaken for copperhead, killed, so wicked, so awfully sad.