Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

Keyword: Road-kill

Picture of a red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) feeds on a road-killed squirrel.

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A red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) feeds on a road-killed squirrel.

Picture of a red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) feeding on a road-killed squirrel.

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A red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) feeds on a road-killed squirrel.

Picture of a red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) feeding on a road-killed squirrel.

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A red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) feeds on a road-killed squirrel.

Photo: A western cottonmouth snake (Agkistrodon piscivorous) lies on the Snake Road, near Ware, Illinois.

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A western cottonmouth snake (Agkistrodon piscivorous) lies on the Snake Road, near Ware, Illinois. This three mile stretch of road along the is closed to traffic when the snakes are migrating from limestone cliffs to the swamp nearby.

Photo: A western cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorous) snake lies dead on the Clear Creek Levy Road, near Ware, Illinois.

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A western cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorous) snake lies dead on the Clear Creek Levy Road, near Ware, Illinois. Road kills are one of the leading causes of death for snakes in the U.S.

A road-killed bobcat (Lynx rufus) that has been placed along a highway near the Santa Anna NWR.

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A road-killed bobcat (Lynx rufus) that has been placed along a highway near the Santa Anna NWR. USFWS biologists are conducting a study to determine how often passers will to pick up and take a dead bobcat, which often is just a few minutes. This may be skewing biologist’s road kill statistics.

Photo: A great horned owl lies dead along a highway near Beaver, OK.

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A great horned owl lies dead along a highway near Beaver, OK.

Photo: A great horned owl lies dead along a highway near Beaver, OK.

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A great horned owl lies dead along a highway near Beaver, OK.

Photo: A great horned owl lies dead along a highway near Beaver, OK.

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A great horned owl lies dead along a highway near Beaver, OK.

Photo: Road-killed greater sage grouse near Pinedale, Wyoming.

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Road-killed greater sage grouse near Pinedale, Wyoming.

Photo: Road-killed greater sage grouse near Pinedale, Wyoming.

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Road-killed greater sage grouse near Pinedale, Wyoming.

Photo: Road-killed greater sage grouse near Pinedale, Wyoming.

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Road-killed greater sage grouse near Pinedale, Wyoming.

Photo: Road-killed greater sage grouse near Pinedale, Wyoming.

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Road-killed greater sage grouse near Pinedale, Wyoming.

Photo: Road-killed greater sage grouse near Pinedale, Wyoming.

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Road-killed greater sage grouse near Pinedale, Wyoming.

Photo: Road-killed greater sage grouse near Pinedale, Wyoming.

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Road-killed greater sage grouse near Pinedale, Wyoming.

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