How to Use ground squirrel in a Sentence

ground squirrel

noun
Definition of ground squirrelnext
  • 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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