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This little fella sure enjoys sunflower seeds. Photo taken in my back yard, about 800' elevation, west slope of the Coburg Hills about 6 miles north of Coburg.

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I'm having a hard time with the identification, since he lacks the alternating light colored stripes down his back. Five black stripes down his back but the hair in between the stripes is the same as the rest of his back. His ears are rimmed in white. Cute as all get out.

What kind of chipmunk is he?
 
Townsend's

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"One of the non-California species is Townsend's Chipmunk T. townsendii (left; nice shot by Blake Matheson). In the four-way split (Sutton & Nadler 1974, Sutton 1987), this one retains the original name. It ranges from w. Oregon north to sw. British Columbia (range map on previous page), and it is primarily arboreal in deep forests. It is a large dark chimpmunk that appears to have taken on the color of its favored woods.

You can compare it to the other "Townsend's splits" on the previous page, but even within species there is variation in color patterns from the coast to inland [the latter tend to be more grayish], so this group is best identified by voice and range."
 
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