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Black Eastern Gray Squirrel (melanistic)

Sciurus carolinensis

Description:

Black Squirrel

1 Species ID Suggestions

Telse
Telse 10 years ago
Eastern gray squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis Eastern gray squirrel


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4 Comments

Telse
Telse 10 years ago

Very cute shot wlydcdn. Although it is black it is an Eastern Gray Squirrel. Sending you link. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you can read about it here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_gra...
Mine kinda cute too.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/222...
(I spell gray with e)

CherylAndrews
CherylAndrews 11 years ago

Take a look at photo of black squirrel on my page.... it has a rust colored tail !

Seema
Seema 11 years ago

nice pic...never seen a black one..

Teresa2
Teresa2 13 years ago

Very unpredictable.

wyldcdn
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wyldcdn

North Bay, Ontario, Canada

Spotted on Oct 17, 2008
Submitted on Mar 17, 2011

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