I’m back to sharing nature from my garden again for a while and this morning the first thing I saw from my terrace was this Variegated Squirrel (Sciurus variegatoides) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus, the most common squirrel of the 4 or 5 species of squirrels found in Costa Rica. He can be seen at many elevations and is more numerous than any of the others and varies somewhat in looks and color combinations with black, white, gray and reds or oranges.
This Variegated one is found only in Central America from Southern Mexico to Panama and is the most common throughout Central America. For anyone really into squirrels, the 4 others said to be in Costa Rica are the Central American dwarf or pygmy squirrel, Microsciurus alfari LR/lc; Deppe’s squirrel, Sciurus deppei LR/lc; Red-tailed squirrel, Sciurus granatensis LR/lc; and Bangs’s mountain squirrel, Syntheosciurus brochus LR/nt.
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And in MY PHOTO GALLERIES:
- Variegated
- Red-tailed
- Pygmy (dwarf)
¡Pura Vida!
Thanks for the squirrelology! I love to watch the little buggers, no matter what they’re up to.
Thanks Deborah! Like all wildlife, they ARE interesting to watch! 🙂
I just put the link of your blog on my Facebook Wall. very nice blog indeed.`.`.,
Much thanks Peter! And of course we can thank “Nature” which is what I mostly blog about as I live out my retirement in the most nature-diverse country in the world – Costa Rica!