Brown Tree Snake

The brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) is an arboreal rear-fanged colubrid snake native to eastern and northern coastal Australia, Papua New Guinea, and a large number of islands in northwestern Melanesia.

This snake is infamous for being an invasive species responsible for devastating the majority of the native bird population on Guam.

Read more about Brown Tree Snake:  Diet, Reproduction, Venom, Invasive Species

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