Least Chipmunk (Neotamias minimus) - a photo on Flickriver

            Bryce Canyon National Park
Utah
USA
Paunsaugunt Plateau 

Along the trail between Inspiration Point and Sunset Point, I came across this chipmunk scampering about looking for food. It stopped for a short while on a log, and I took several images.  

Chipmunks are small, striped rodents of the family Sciuridae. Chipmunks are found in North America, with the exception of the Siberian chipmunk which is found primarily in Asia. 

Chipmunks may be classified either as a single genus, Tamias, or as three genera: Tamias, which includes the eastern chipmunk; Eutamias, which includes the Siberian chipmunk; and Neotamias, which includes the 23 remaining, mostly western, species. These classifications are arbitrary, and most taxonomies over the twentieth century have placed the chipmunks in a single genus. 
 
Chipmunks have an omnivorous diet primarily consisting of seeds, nuts and other fruits, and buds. They also commonly eat grass, shoots, and many other forms of plant matter, as well as fungi, insects and other arthropods, small frogs, worms, and bird eggs. - Wikipedia

The least chipmunk is the smallest species of chipmunk and most widespread. Least chipmunks are found through the western United States from northern New Mexico and western North and South Dakota to eastern California, Oregon and Washington, and throughout much of southern and western Canada from Yukon to Ontario, and into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and neighbouring parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Throughout this range, as many as 21 subspecies have been identified. Less arboreal than other chipmunks, least chipmunks are commonly found in sagebrush habitats and coniferous woodland, and along rivers, but they also occur in alpine meadows, and on the edges of the northern tundra.
   

Taken in: United States / Utah / Garfield (show map)

Taken on: May 4, 2017

Tags:

National Parks Tour 2017

Bryce Canyon National Point

Southwestern Utah

USA

Small Striped Rodent

Animal

Mammal

Omnivore

Sciuridae Family

Tamias Genus

Eats Seeds

Nuts

Fruits

Buds

Grass

Shoots

Fungi

Insects

Small Frogs

Worms

Birds Eggs

Sue Roehl

Panasonic

Lumix DMC-GH4

100 - 400 mm Lens

Hand held

Photographed Along The Trail

coth5

NGC

Least Chipmunk

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