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- 4-H Wildlife. Project 1Dudderar, Glenn R. (Virginia Cooperative Extension Service, 1978-06)
- A survey of the food habits of the gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) in Montgomery County, VirginiaDudderar, Glenn R. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1967)The examination of one-hundred-thirteen gray squirrel stomachs collected throughout the year revealed a total of seventy-eight food items eaten. Only four, however, contributed more than half of the entire diet for any season. In the fall, hickory nuts (36%), fungi (26%), white oak acorns (12%), and black walnuts (10%) were the major foods. Red oak acorns (36%) and combinations of acorns, hickory nuts, and walnuts (22%) constituted most of the winter diet, followed by fungi (16%) and black walnuts (10%). Red oak acorns (26%) again headed the list for spring foods, along with a red oak-black walnut mixture (7%), elm buds and flowers (10%), and corn (9%). As a group, however, flowers composed 28% of the spring diet. Summer foods consisted primarily of herbaceous plants (24%), herbaceous buds (13%), hickory nuts (13%), and woody buds (10%). Of the aforementioned foods, hickory nuts, white oak acorns, and fungi were classified as preferred foods; red oak acorns and black walnuts were classified as staple foods, fruits, seeds, and herbaceous plants were classified as emergency or staple foods; buds were classified as emergency foods. Flowers were unclassifiable from the information at hand.
- Your Surroundings. Conservation 1Mundie, E. W.; Garrett, J. C.; Hale, Edward B.; Dudderar, Glenn R.; Groves, D. R. (Virginia Cooperative Extension Service, 1979-03)