![]() Mating occurs in late winter and early spring, with gestation lasting about 44 days and most young born in February, March and April. MIGRATION: This squirrel is nonmigratory, with a home range of 10 to 50 acres.īREEDING: These squirrels prefer to make their dens in the hollows of trees but will also make nests of leaves and twigs in the crotches of trees, in tangles of vines on a trunk or at the ends of large branches. Translocations have occurred in several other counties on the eastern shore of Maryland in Sussex County, Delaware and on the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia. The remaining populations persist naturally in portions of four counties on the eastern shore of Maryland: Kent, Queen Annes, Talbot and Dorchester counties. By the turn of the century, the squirrel had disappeared from New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and by 1936 it had disappeared from Delaware as well. RANGE: Historically, this squirrel occurred in southeastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, south-central New Jersey, Maryland and the Virginia portion of the Delmarva Peninsula. HABITAT: Delmarva fox squirrels prefer mature forest of both hardwood and pine trees with a minimum amount of understory and ground cover. The fox squirrel is frosty silver to slate gray with a white belly and can grow to be 30 inches long, including 15 inches of tail. DELMARVA PENINSULA FOX SQUIRREL } Sciurus niger cinereusĭESCRIPTION: The Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel is a large, heavy-bodied tree squirrel with an unusually full, fluffy tail.
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