47+ Brown Copperhead Snake. Copperhead snakes are considered a medium sized snake with a wide body and a broad these snakes can be a light brown or tan in color with dark, irregular banding. Poisonous snakes that are named for the two heat sensing pits used to locate prey that are positioned between the eyes and the nostrils.
Unlike copperheads, northern water snakes have round pupils, which, as stated previously, is a common characteristic of nonvenomous snakes. Poisonous snakes that are named for the two heat sensing pits used to locate prey that are positioned between the eyes and the nostrils. It lives mainly on the eastern coast of north america and in the mississippi drainage.
Copperhead, any of several unrelated snakes named for their reddish head colour.
Depending on the locality copperheads may be confused with patternless tiger snakes notechis, eastern brown. The northern water snake also has a narrower head. Identification of the venomous copperhead snake and the harmless northern banded water. The north american copperhead agkistrodon (also spelled ancistrodon) contortrix is a venomous species found.