Sciuridae
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
(American red squirrel)

Image Caption:
Sitting on a branch, a red squirrel (tamasciurus hudsonicus) Shells and eats a ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) pine  cone, one of their primary food sources in the Black Hills, South Dakota.

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Tamaisciurus hudsonicus hudsonicus (American red squirrel) Eating thuja occidentalis
Image Location: Black Hills, South Dakota
Image Date: 2010JUN04
Image Species: Tamiasciurus hudsonicus dakotensis

Web Page and Picture By Peter Leitheiser
Updated: 2011JAN25