How to Use ground squirrel in a Sentence

ground squirrel

noun

• The prey base for the birds — ground squirrels and rabbits — lived on the flats.
  — Steve Stuebner, idahostatesman, 26 Feb. 2018
• The parkas are full length, made from the skins of gray and reddish-brown arctic ground squirrels.
  — Emily Schwing, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• The parkas are full-length, made from the skins of gray and reddish-brown arctic ground squirrels.
  — Emily Schwing, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• Scoops in the dirt are a sign that a grizzly bear has rooted out a ground squirrel.
  — Christopher Solomon, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• O'Dea and his friends were on lawn chairs, shooting at ground squirrels.
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• The holes also are too small for gophers, moles and ground squirrels.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• Cape ground squirrels might remind you of prairie dogs.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
• The badger can dig into ground squirrels' dens and then once the prey surfaces, the coyote can chase it down.
  — Alicia Lee, CNN, 5 Feb. 2020
• The ground squirrel darted up to the table, grabbed his keys and scampered into his hole.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2018
• During the spring, its flowers are one of the only sources of wet food available for insects, ravens, and ground squirrels.
  — Sam Schipani, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2017
• Those animals that can’t match the rate of warming and delay breeding, like the roe deer and Columbian ground squirrels, don’t raise as many young.
  — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2019
• The Arctic ground squirrel cools down to 27 degrees Fahrenheit.
  — Gregory Mone, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2013
• Coyotes, wild pigs, deer, ground squirrels and red-tailed hawks are common on most visits.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2017
• Borrowing ground squirrel burrows to beat the heat, meerkats emerge to get food in the morning and late afternoon.
  — National Geographic, 27 July 2021
• The main culprit is the California ground squirrel, which is native to the region.
  — Phil Diehl, latimes.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• Wildlife: High numbers of ground squirrels, fair numbers of rabbits, deer.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2018
• On the trail, hikers should keep backpacks and other items within reach lest they be ransacked by bears or the Half Dome ground squirrels.
  — Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• Terriers are pretty fierce hunters and could well have survived by catching ground squirrels and the like.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• And humans share genes that give ground squirrels their distinctive stripes.
  — NBC News, 7 Mar. 2018
• Groundhogs, also known as woodchucks, are one of the largest members of the ground squirrel family.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2023
• Rats and ground squirrels can do significant damage to nut crops and can strip trees in short order.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 17 July 2019
• The bulk of a coyotes’ diet consists of rodents, mainly field mice, rats, chipmunks, and ground squirrels.
  — Hampton Bourne, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
• The lead conservationist is a large, fluffy ground squirrel known as a marmot.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022
• Of the other animals observed, 70 percent of ground squirrels and racoons ate grapes, stripping the bunches grape by grape.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 22 Sep. 2017
• This speedy little round, based on a necked-down .22 WMR, shot flat and accurately and became a scourge for ground squirrels and other small game.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 2 Jan. 2020
• And all three occur because of Yersinia pestis—a species of bacteria carried by fleas that live on rodents like ground squirrels, rats, mice and prairie dogs.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• The grizzly bear on a slope to the west enlarged his excavation of the mountain, determined to have the ground squirrel below for supper.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Feb. 2018
• The ground and air were full of life — a hawk hunting a ground squirrel, a pair of rock ptarmigan appearing and disappearing with movement and stillness, and ...
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2019
• Researchers have found that as the freeze and thaw of the Arctic landscape has changed over the past 25 years, the hardy Arctic ground squirrel’s hibernation patterns are adapting.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• Earlier, Olmos had been inspecting the fringes of the secondary fence, a place where jack rabbits and ground squirrels scamper about in the darkness.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, sacbee, 4 Sep. 2017

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