10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2011

The Olympic Peninsula is known for a host of endemic creatures, including some mammals like the Roosevelt Elk. One creature that I almost overlooked as just another chipmunk is the Olympic Chipmunk , known to scientists and Latin enthusiasts as Tamias amoenus caurinus , a subspecies of the Yellow-pine Chipmunk Tamias amoenus.

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Chipmunks Mammals Deer Washington 182

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2013

Over the years you may have learned to know better but it’s spring and you’re hopeful and maybe this time it’s an unfamiliar sparrow of some kind… but after maneuvering carefully around to a line of sight, it’s that furry little air-raid siren the Eastern chipmunk again. Mammals ground squirrels rodents'

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Chipmunks Squirrels Rodents Montana 186

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2012

While eating lunch with Daisy and her family at a picnic area in Joshua Tree National Park the other day a small chipmunk-looking creature ventured out of the rock formation we were eating next to. The cute little critter was clearly looking for a handout which we did not provide.

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Squirrels Chipmunks Idaho Mammals 209

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2018

The big stars are still the birds, but there are more mammals and butterflies, as well as other insects – and I do appreciate a person who can see the aesthetic value in a housefly.

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Chipmunks Ohio Mammals 2013 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

One of Desi’s favorite things to do when we are visiting his grandparents is wander around the yard looking for bugs, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals – basically, anything living thing. But what we found hiding amid the Black-eyed Susans on Sunday was clearly his favorite creature of the year.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2013

And of course, way too many chipmunks and squirrels and raccoons and turtles to count. Birding Lizards Mammals Reptiles Trips animals' Much like Carrie’s recent experiences being hoodwinked by non-bird sources of birdy-sounding calls , I’ve had my share of animal encounters out in the field. How about you?

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Nevada Coyotes Rattlesnake Chicago 181

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

My mammal-rehabber friends give me their unfortunates, as well. He then ate a screech owl, a robin, two squirrels, a mourning dove, three chipmunks, and a rabbit. As long as they had no drugs in their system, and as long as they weren’t touched by a cat (and thus contaminated with salmonella/pasteurella/Bartonella, etc.)

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