🐾 American Red Squirrel

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus · wildlife atlas entry

The American red squirrel ( Tamiasciurus hudsonicus ) is one of three species of tree squirrel currently classified in the genus Tamiasciurus , known as the pine squirrels (the others are the Douglas squirrel, T. douglasii , and Mearns's squirrel, T. mearnsi ). American red squirrels are also referred to as pine squirrels , North American red squirrels , and chickarees . They are medium-sized (200–250 g) diurnal mammals that defend a year-round exclusive territory. The diet of these tree squirrels is specialized on the... Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

American Red Squirrel — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) jmarcinik, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by jmarcinik · cc-by-nc

Record card

Scientific name	Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
Rank	species
Community observations	103,407 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Animalia › phylum Chordata › class Mammalia › order Rodentia › family Sciuridae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

American Red Squirrel photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Bayview Village, North York, ON, Canada
(c) Tatiana Svidskaia, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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