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It is omnivorous, eating a variety of plants and insects and even birds' eggs. [3] Townsend's chipmunks in the Oregon Coast Range have higher population densities in areas with dense shrubbery, especially salal (Gaultheria shallon). [4] In the summer and early fall, Townsend's chipmunks eat blackberries, salal berries, and thimble berries.
The red-tailed chipmunk feeds mainly on seeds and berries and sometimes carries these in its cheek pouches. [4] Frequently eaten foods include the seeds of fir and pine, honeysuckle berries, cranberries, whortleberries, huckleberries, the seeds of locust trees and of snow brush, buckbrush, thistle, willow herb, grasses and many others types of seed.
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.
An eastern chipmunk placing food in its cheek pouch. Chipmunks have an omnivorous diet primarily consisting of seeds, nuts and other fruits, and buds. [9] [10] They also commonly eat grass, shoots, and many other forms of plant matter, as well as fungi, insects and other arthropods, small frogs, worms, and bird eggs.
Least chipmunks are diurnal and eat seeds, berries, nuts, fruits and insects. They mark areas depleted of suitable food with urine, and do not return to such patches afterwards. [8] Home ranges vary widely, and have been reported to vary from 0.1 ha (0.25 acres) in northern Michigan [4] to as much as 5.5 ha (14 acres) in Colorado. [9]
Estimated contribution to Lyme disease comparison chart The species can carry Lyme disease , caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi , that can be transmitted through ticks. In a study in a park near Paris where the Siberian chipmunk had established itself, in comparison to bank voles and wood mice , the Siberian chipmunks had a much higher ...
Cliff chipmunk. The cliff chipmunk (Neotamias dorsalis) is a small, bushy- tailed squirrel that typically lives along cliff walls or boulder fields bordering Pinyon-juniper woodlands in the Western United States and Mexico (commonly spotted in northern Arizona to Colorado). Cliff chipmunks are very agile, and can often be seen scaling steep ...
The long-eared chipmunk (Neotamias quadrimaculatus), also called the Sacramento chipmunk or the four-banded chipmunk, is a species of rodent in the squirrel family, Sciuridae. It is endemic to the central and northern Sierra Nevada of California and Nevada in the United States. [ 1 ] Long-eared chipmunks have the longest ears of all species of ...