Keywords:Great Plains, Heterodon, Heterodon nasicus, New Mexico, Western hog-nosed snake, Western hognose, Western hognose snake, hog-nosed snake, hognose, hognose snake, snake
Diet
Western hognose snakes are diet generalists unlike the eastern and southern species which tend to be frog and toad specialists. Western hognoses prey also prey on lizards, small snakes, reptile eggs, birds, and small mammals.