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In the summer, it is greyish or almost greenish-brown on its back, and pale orange on the chest and belly, while legs and feet appear brown. In the winter, the coat is browner and the underside is grayer; also, the ears appear even tuftier than they do in summer. Like many squirrels, the Douglas squirrel has a white eye-ring.
The stripe along the back is darker in the Douglas ground squirrel compared to the California ground squirrel, but also by the blackish-brown triangle between the neck and halfway down the back, the light brown shoulders, and the dense, silver coloured hairs, between shoulder and elbow, and along the tail, Dougas ground squirrel has white ...
Western gray squirrel, Sciurus griseus (harvest) Eastern fox squirrel, Sciurus niger (introduced, harvest) Douglas' squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasii (harvest) Subfamily Xerinae (chipmunks and ground squirrels) White-tailed antelope ground squirrel, Ammospermophilus leucurus; Nelson's antelope ground squirrel, Ammospermophilus nelsoni (endemic)
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The species is the largest tree squirrel in the state. It’s being threatened by climate change, habitat loss and frequent disease outbreaks. Gray squirrel may become endangered species in WA.
White-eyes are named for the conspicuous white eye-rings found in the majority of species. [1] [2] [3] Their genus name Zosterops likewise means "eye-girdle".[4]The eye-ring of a bird is a ring of tiny feathers that surrounds the orbital ring, [5] a ring of bare skin immediately surrounding a bird's eye.
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Sciurini (/ s ɪ ˈ j uː r ɪ n iː /) is a tribe that includes about forty species of squirrels, [2] mostly from the Americas. It includes five living genera—the American dwarf squirrels, Microsciurus; the Bornean Rheithrosciurus; the widespread American and Eurasian tree squirrels of the genus Sciurus, which includes some of the best known squirrel species; the Central American ...