Ontario records
Common Garter Snake in Ontario
HarmlessThamnophis sirtalis
Yes. The Common Garter Snake has been recorded in 53 Ontario counties. It is non-venomous (harmless). Slender body with three light stripes running the length of a darker back.
Ontario counties with Common Garter Snake records
53 listed- Ottawa
- Parry Sound
- Leeds and Grenville
- Wellington
- Frontenac
- Bruce
- Haldimand-Norfolk
- Lake Hurron
- Essex
- Hamilton
- Waterloo
- Nipissing
- Muskoka
- Toronto
- Lanark
- Peterborough
- Simcoe
- Middlesex
- Lake Erie
- Halton
- Lake Ontario
- Hastings
- Niagara
- Oxford
- York
- Kawartha Lakes
- Peel
- Algoma
- Greater Sudbury
- Chatham-Kent
- Renfrew
- Thunder Bay
- Durham
- Haliburton
- Lennox and Addington
- Manitoulin
- Lambton
- Northumberland
- Grey
- Prince Edward
- Kenora
- Brant
- Cochrane
- Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry
- Elgin
- Sudbury
- Prescott and Russell
- Huron
- Dufferin
- Timiskaming
- Rainy River
- Lake Superior
- Perth
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