western gray squirrel การใช้

• Western gray squirrels exhibit a form of coloration known as counter shading.
• Western gray squirrels mate over an extended period ranging from December through June.
• Small mammals include the black-tailed jackrabbit, the western gray squirrel, and California ground squirrels.
• Western gray squirrels eat berries, nuts, a variety of seeds, and the eggs of small birds.
• Western gray squirrels are forest dwellers, and can be found at elevations up to 2, 000 m.
• Common animals in Annadel include black-tailed deer, western gray squirrel, raccoon, skunk, and opossum.
• Common wildlife include Steller's jay, chestnut-backed chickadee, western gray squirrel, raccoon and many others.
• Rodents such as the California ground squirrel, western gray squirrel, and dusky-footed woodrat live in this region.
• Western gray squirrels live in oak forests at low elevations, on both the south side and the desert side of the range.
• Acorns constitute an average of 50 % of the fall and winter diets of western gray squirrel and black-tailed deer during good mast years.
• Listed as extirpated in some California areas, the western gray squirrel in southern California is generally found only in the mountains and surrounding foothill communities.
• Amongst mammals, black-tailed deer, western gray squirrels, chipmunks and raccoons are common, but foxes, coyotes, bobcats, and opossums are also present.
• Animals common in the forest around the cave include golden-mantled ground squirrels, chipmunks, western gray squirrels, porcupines, weasels, pine martens, and mule deer.
• Rodents common to the area include western gray squirrel, golden-mantled ground squirrel, least chipmunk, western harvest mouse, Great Basin pocket mouse, and northern grasshopper mouse.
• There are two stick nest types made by the western gray squirrel : the first is a large, round, covered shelter nest for winter use, birthing, and rearing young.
• It and the lands nearby are home to several rare and threatened species of plants and animals including the previously mentioned Oregon spotted frog and greater sandhill crane, Mardon skipper, peregrine falcon, and Western gray squirrel.
• It is easier to distinguish the western gray squirrel ( gray, with a white belly and a big, bushy tail ) from the California ground squirrel, which is spotted and has a gray area on the back of its neck.
• Smaller mammal species include the grey fox, striped skunk and spotted skunk, California raccoon, Virginia opossum, Audubon's cottontail, long-tailed weasel, Botta's pocket gopher, California vole, western brush rabbit, and western gray squirrel.
• Some of the small mammals found in the Todd Lake area include American badger, North American beaver, mountain beaver, porcupine, raccoon, striped skunk, western spotted skunk, American marten, mink, long-tailed weasel, western gray squirrel, American pika, least chipmunk, Townsend's chipmunk, bushy-tailed woodrat, and deer mouse, as well as several shrew and vole species.