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Eastern chipmunk eating under a log pile in Bedford, New York. The chipmunk is mainly active during the day, spending most of its day foraging. It prefers bulbs, seeds, fruits, nuts, green plants, mushrooms, insects, worms, and bird eggs. It commonly transports food in pouches in its cheeks.
Chipmunks are small, striped rodents of Sciuridae, the squirrel family; specifically, they are ground squirrels (Marmotini). Chipmunks are found in North America, with the exception of the Siberian chipmunk which is found primarily in Asia.
Eastern chipmunks are distributed over a huge area throughout the eastern United States and south-eastern Canada. In Canada, their range stretches from Nova Scotia to south-eastern Saskatchewan. In the United States, these animals occur from the eastern parts of the country to Oklahoma and as south as the extreme northwest of Florida.
Chipmunks are small, burrowing rodents native to North America. They can range from 4 to 8 inches long and are typically found in meadows, woodlands, backyards, and even urban areas. In the United States, chipmunks can be found in most states, from Alaska to Central America.
Geographic Range. Eastern chipmunks are widely distributed throughout the eastern United States and southeastern Canada. Their range extends from Nova Scotia, east to Saskatchewan and south to Oklahoma, where they occupy the eastern part of the state. Their range includes eastern Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle.
Adults have a home range of 0.2-0.4 ha (0.5-1.0 acre) which may overlap with others. An individual defends the area around the burrow entrance, and is dominant to other chipmunks in this area.
Chipmunk, any of 25 species of small, striped, terrestrial squirrels with large internal cheek pouches. They have prominent eyes and ears, a furry tail, and delicate claws. All are active only during the day, and all but one are North American, occurring from southern Canada to west-central Mexico.
This dataset represents a species known range extent for Tamias striatus (Eastern Chipmunk). These range maps are created by attributing sub-watershed polygons with information of a species presence, origin, seasonal and reproductive use.
The range of the eastern chipmunck extends from southern Manitoba across southeastern Canada to Nova Scotia, and south through most of the eastern United States, except for much of the coastal plain of the Southeast, and west to the eastern edge of the Great Plains.
Eastern Chipmunk (Tamias striatus) | Map | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Working with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.