#0309 · 🦊 mammals

Richardson's Ground Squirrel

🇳🇱 Richardsongrondeekhoorn ·Urocitellus richardsonii

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © D. Sikes · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Charles Thomas Hash, Jr. · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Chris · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Donna Pomeroy · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Scott King · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Nicholas Sly · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Donna Pomeroy · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Richardson's ground squirrel ( Urocitellus richardsonii ), also known as the Dakrat , or Flickertail , is a North American ground squirrel in the genus Urocitellus . Like a number of other ground squirrels, they are sometimes called gophers , though this name belongs more strictly to the pocket gophers of family Geomyidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,737iNaturalist 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.
5,737 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Joseph Sabine in 1822 (204 years ago).