Depending on the subspecies, adult racers can be around 35 to 75 inches long. They have narrow heads and long, slender, smooth bodies usually of a solid dark color, including black, gray, blue and olive brown. Their undersides are always a light color, ranging from white to yellow. Racers can be found from southern Canada to Guatemala. There are many subspecies of racers, each of which have very different ranges. The western yellow-bellied racer (Coluber constrictor mormon) is a subspecies that can be found in eastern Washington as well as California, Nevada, western Colorado, Oregon, and southern British Columbia. Racers are most often found in dry sunny areas with cover, including open woodland, open fields, hedgerows, thickets, and wood edges. They have also been seen in wetter areas like marshes, bogs, and lake edges. Young racers start out eating small animals, mostly insects, spiders, small frogs, small reptiles, and young rodents. As they grow, they can eat larger animals, including nestling birds and their eggs, squirrels, small rabbits, small turtles, and larger snakes. Sometime between June and early July, females search for a suitable nest site, which can include a rotted stump or log, old mammal burrow, or a nest cavity in leaf litter or sand. They lay 3-32 white oval eggs that will hatch in August or early September. Despite its name, racers usually move at a speed of only 4 miles per hour. If a predator manages to come really close, the racer will smear secretions from its scent glands all over its body.

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