#0078 · 🦊 mammals
Eastern Chipmunk
🇳🇱 Oostelijke Wangzakeekhoorn ·Tamias striatus
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what is it?
The eastern chipmunk ( Tamias striatus ) is a chipmunk species found in eastern North America. It is the only living member of the chipmunk subgenus Tamias , sometimes recognised as a separate genus.
base stats
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.
- 112,760 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 100 g.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Eastern Chipmunk
- Nederlands
- Oostelijke Wangzakeekhoorn
- scientific name
- Tamias striatus
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Rodentia
- family
- Sciuridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 22
- sightings worldwide
- 112,760
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- 100 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Sciuridae
#0008 📷 10Eurasian Red Squirrel
🇳🇱 Rode eekhoorn
Sciurus vulgaris
LC 👀 712 in NL
#0033 📷 8Siberian Chipmunk
🇳🇱 Koreaanse Grondeekhoorn
Eutamias sibiricus
LC 👀 26 in NL
#0075 📷 10Eastern Gray Squirrel
🇳🇱 Noord-Amerikaanse grijze eekhoorn
Sciurus carolinensis
LC 🌍 418.6k seen
#0199 📷 9Eastern Fox Squirrel
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse voseekhoorn
Sciurus niger
LC 🌍 173.4k seen
#0079 📷 10American Red Squirrel
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Rode Eekhoorn
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
LC 🌍 103.4k seen
#0203 📷 10Groundhog
🇳🇱 Bosmarmot
Marmota monax
LC 🌍 67.1k seen
#0204 📷 7California Ground Squirrel
🇳🇱 Californische Grondeekhoorn
Otospermophilus beecheyi
LC 🌍 65.1k seen
#0217 📷 10Rock Squirrel
🇳🇱 Rotsgrondeekhoorn
Otospermophilus variegatus
LC 🌍 30.1k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 46217, Wikidata Q692664, GBIF 2437438, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.