#0264 · 🦊 mammals

Least Chipmunk

🇳🇱 Kleine Chipmunk ·Neotamias minimus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Cameron Eckert · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Jason Headley · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0
4. © Michael Kielb · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Steven Mlodinow · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Marshal Hedin · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. East Kootenay, BC, Canada:© jduxbury · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. River Valley Whitemud, Edmonton, AB, Canada:© whitemudwayne · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 1697 Leopold Way, Nekoosa, WI 54457, USA:© mannac · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Sioux County, NE, USA:© Colin Croft · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The least chipmunk ( Tamias minimus ) is the smallest species of chipmunk, and the most widespread in North America.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 10,741iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
10,741 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by John Bachman in 1839 (187 years ago).