Burmese Python Florida Map

This species is introduced in the united states.

Burmese python florida map. In one study scientists collected more than 300 burmese pythons in everglades national park and. The pythons first showed up in florida in the 1980s after escaping from pet owners or escaping from breeding facilities. A florida charter captain spotted a burmese python swimming across naples bay earlier this week. States counties points list species info.

To view a current map of all burmese python sightings in florida click on the map below. Bivittatus kuhl 1820. The burmese python is now distributed across more than a thousand square miles of southern florida including all of everglades national park and areas to the north including big cypress national preserve and collier seminole state forest. Burmese python species profile burmese python fwc.

A young burmese python in homestead florida. Burmese pythons python bivittatus are native to southeast asia however since the end of the 20th century they have become an established breeding population in south florida although burmese pythons were first sighted in everglades national park in the 1990s they were not officially recognized as a reproducing population until 2000. The burmese python is now estimated to have a breeding population in florida in the tens of thousands. Native to southeast asia pythons were first brought to the united states as.

Burmese python species profiles additional information. These fast breeding and long lived constrictor snakes are highly adaptable to new environments and have already done tremendous ecological damage in the state of florida where they consume a wide variety of prey including mammals amphibians lizards and threatened and endangered bird species. Map by michele wood uf may be used freely for education. Where are burmese pythons or other large constrictors distributed in florida.

The burmese python is now distributed across more than a thousand square miles of southern florida including all of everglades national park and areas to the north including big cypress national preserve and collier seminole state forest. Click on the map to view a current map of all sightings reported in florida. A few stray pythons have been spied. He and his colleagues encourage female pythons to slither.

They re increased tolerance for cold shows a surprising ability to adapt. Have swept across southern florida. How the burmese python took over florida. Distribution maps species information tools training my eddmaps about siipa burmese python python molurus ssp.

Since then the number of python sightings has exponentially increased with over 300 sightings from 2008 to 2010. Alligators birds mice rats squirrels rabbits cats bobcats opossums raccoons deer. Download data to download a subset of this species. Pythons in florida map.