Chipmunk | Diet, Habitat, & Facts | Britannica
2024年11月5日 · They relish seeds, berries, and tender plants, but they also eat fungi, insects and other arthropods, and sometimes carrion. They stuff seeds and nuts into their cheek pouches and carry them to a burrow to be stored for later use.
Eastern chipmunk - Wikipedia
Eastern chipmunk eating under a log pile in Bedford, New York. The chipmunk is mainly active during the day, spending most of its day foraging. It prefers bulbs, seeds, fruits, nuts, green plants, mushrooms, insects, worms, and bird eggs. It …
Eastern Chipmunk - ESF
Chipmunks occasionally kill and eat birds, especially nestlings. The use of fungi may be significant to forest regeneration by spore dispersal, because some fungi create conditions favorable to tree seedling survival and growth. The eastern chipmunk spends most of the winter in its burrow.
Chipmunks - National Geographic
They feed on insects, nuts, berries, seeds, fruit, and grain which they stuff into their generous cheek pouches and carry to their burrow or nest to store. Chipmunks hibernate, but instead of...
Eastern Chipmunk - Missouri Department of Conservation
Chipmunks relish but do not store perishable foods such as mushrooms and many types of berries. Occasionally chipmunks eat insects and their larvae, millipedes, earthworms, slugs, snails, and other small animals.
ADW: Tamias rufus: INFORMATION
Hopi chipmunks are eaten by snakes, birds, and possibly mammals. Bullsnakes ( Pituophis catenifer sayi ) have been known to eat juvenile chipmunks. Other predators include coyotes ( Canis latrans ), Swainson's hawks ( Buteo swainsoni ), and long-tailed weasels ( …
Chipmunks - Penn State Extension
2006年6月23日 · The diet of chipmunks consists primarily of grains, nuts, berries, seeds, mushrooms, insects, and carrion. Chipmunks also prey on young birds and bird eggs. Chipmunks spend most of their time on the ground, but regularly climb trees in the fall to gather nuts, fruits, and seeds. Chipmunks cache food in their burrows throughout the year.
Eastern Chipmunk | FWC - Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
The diet of the Eastern chipmunk primarily consists of seeds, fruit, eggs, and birds (Anderson and Stephens 2002). Eastern chipmunk females breed once or twice a year in the spring and/or summer. The female will stay in heat for a short time during which the male will extensively guard the female from other males looking to mate.
Chipmunk - National Geographic Kids
Chipmunks feed on insects, nuts, berries, seeds, fruit, and grain which they stuff into their generous cheek pouches and carry to their burrow or nest to store.
Chipmunks - The Humane Society of the United States
Along with providing a food source for owls, hawks, foxes and other predators, chipmunks help nurture trees from the ground up; their feces spreads a fungus that enriches the soil and helps trees and other plants absorb water and nutrients. Every day, more and more wildlife habitats are lost to the spread of development.