Fox Squirrel
Sciurus niger
Notes 5
These squirrels were introduced from the eastern US for some reason, and are now well-established in various spots in the west. Locally they seem to be particularly abundant around San Jose. These climb trees and eat your Halloween pumpkins and do all the regular squirrel stuff.
They look similar to Eastern Grey Squirrels, which were also introduced from the eastern US, but with practice are easy to distinguish:
1) Fox Squirrels are usually larger, with a noticeably stockier build and a fatter, fluffier appearance.
2) Fox Squirrels have pumpkin-orange undersides and lots of orange on their faces and tails. Eastern Grey Squirrels have snowy-white bellies, and their face & tail color is more brown than orange and not as extensive/prominent. Fox Squirrels' orange can get faded to quite pale orange, but not all the way to white.
Fox Squirrels in other parts of the country come in subspecies with very different colors/patterns, but we only have the regular orange/grey/brown kind.
Fontes e Créditos
- (c) Jeffrey Beall, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/31437555@N00/4495529480
- (c) Ingrid Taylar, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY), http://www.flickr.com/photos/taylar/3583965215/
- (c) C.V. Vick, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/nuclearbunny/4172420918/
- (c) Erin and Lance Willett, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/lance_mountain/4832547811/
- (c) sea-kangaroo, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA)
Mais informações
BioDiversity4All Mapa
| Color | grey, orange |
|---|---|
| Status | introduced |
