These are some of the food items found in wild indigos. This was based on museum specimen gut contents, regurgitated or palpated items, field observations, and feces.

Shark head

Southern toad

bullfrogs

leopard frogs

siren

American alligator (juvenile)

peninsula cooter eggs

gopher tortoise babies and eggs

glass lizards

watersnakes (four species)

eastern ribbonsnakes

eastern garter snakes

scarlet snakes

ring-necked snakes

southern and eastern hognose snakes

mudsnakes

rainbow snakes

common kingsnakes

eastern coachwwhip snakes

eastern indigo snakes (juvenile)

racers

ratsnakes

cornsnakes

rough green snakes

copperheads

cottonmouths

pygmy rattlesnakes

eastern diamondbacks

timber rattlesnakes

coral snakes

domestic chicken

scrub jay

meadowlarks

towhees

opposum (juvenile)

marsh rabbit (nestling)

eastern cottontail

cotton mouse, hispid cotton rat

house mouse

black rat

southern flying squirrel



Notice a trend? Very broad diet, but strong preference for snakes.



This was taken from the paper by Dirk Stevenson (now with Project Orianne)which I referred to in the thread below.

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