Talk:Abert's Squirrel
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[edit] Abert Squirrels
We live in the East Mountains outside of Albuquerque. We have had a family of Abert squirrels living and raising babies near our house for at least 7 years. We do not have ANY ponderosa pines within miles, only large pinyons and junipers. The squirrels are obviously surviving without Ponderosas.
They have built two nests within 10 meters of our house. One is about 2 meters across, the other 1.5 meters. They stole stuffing out of our lawn furniture to insulate the nests. We usually start to see babies in mid May. This year we have 3, two with white bellies and 1 with a dark belly. They are not very afraid of us and use our house as a climbing area. They run all over our screens and once once actually came into the house.
216.184.4.231 03:14, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I beleive the headline picture is incorrect
I recently visited the Southern Rim of the Grand Canyon, and the squirrel that is pictured is not the type of squirrel you will find there. Squirrels of the Southern Rim are lighter in color with smaller ears. Based on descriptions I have read elsewhere, it seems that picture is of the Northern Rim squirrel, called the Kaibab squirrel. The Kaibab is described as dark with a bushy tail and bigger ears. I have proper pictures of the Abert squirrel, which I will gladly share with Wikipedia, if someone would care to confirm my suspicions. --Mespinola (talk) 22:56, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Oddly enough, my belief also invalidates the pictures of the Kaibab squirrel in its Wikipedia article. As far as I can tell, someone got the imagery backwards. --Mespinola (talk) 23:02, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
