r/mildlyinteresting • u/lveg • 9h ago

My town has black squirrels

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u/lveg 4h ago

What I'm getting from this thread is it depends. In the US they are less common, but in Canada all bets are off.

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u/minniebin 3h ago

Yeah, black squirrels are very common in Southern Ontario. I guess I just assumed if you have squirrels you have all the normal colours - black, grey, red, brown

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u/anifyz- 2h ago

I live in south Florida and we only have gray squirrels.

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u/Burning_Goddess 3h ago

Don't forget the white squirrels

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u/Reallyasquid 1h ago

Eurasian Red squirrels are a separate species to Eastern Grey squirrels iirc.

Some douche brought grey ones over to the UK and they massively overtook the environmental niches that Red squirells had. As such they only exist in small pockets of the UK (I think mostly Scotland and Anglesey in Wales) where eradication of the grey squirrel has been preformed and habitats protected.

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u/RockMover12 3h ago

They used to be pretty uncommon in most of the US but I think that’s changed. I live in SE Michigan and over the last 10 years we see them everywhere.

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u/Beautiful_District47 3h ago

Yess SE Michigan represent. Just saw abt 5 on my walk today, was gonna comment how normal they are

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u/ABotelho23 3h ago

Uh, no? I've lived in Ontario and Quebec and they're everywhere.

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u/guess214356789 3h ago

And Olney, Illinois has white squirrels.

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u/soappube 3h ago

We have both black and grey squirrels here in BC. The grey ones are bigger

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u/Smyley 3h ago

Washingtonian here, I never knew black squirrels existed until I visited bc. Blew my mind!

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u/Lost_in_spreadsheets 2h ago

They are in Washington close to the border with BC as well- they’re all over Bellingham!

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u/Smyley 2h ago

I wonder if they'll make it to Seattle area one day! It's all greys here

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u/soappube 3h ago

Sadly I feel like I barely see the grey ones anymore

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u/No_Letterhead6883 2h ago

I’m in northern Michigan and I feel I see more black ones than any other color

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u/Long-Zombie-2017 2h ago

I live in Georgia. Nothing but gray squirrels my entire 34 years and recently we've been seeing black squirrels. Idk if they're moving down here or what