Western Gray Squirrel 1 in western Washington 090618
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Common Name
Western Gray Squirrel
Scientific Name
Sciurus griseus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Rodentia
Family
Sciuridae
Genus
Sciurus
Subject
Mammals; Places; Nature sounds
Place Names
Fort Lewis (Wash.); Pierce County (Wash.); Washington (State)
Creator of Media Recording
Rice, Jeff
Media Rights Management
Audio file copyright 2009, Jeff Rice. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
Publisher
Western Soundscape Archive, University of Utah
Date.Original
2009-06-18
Resource Type
sound
Format
audio/mp4
Digitization Specifications
Compressed from .wav format into .mp4 delivery format
Contributing Institution
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112; Ecological and animal data provided by NatureServe. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available http://www.natureserve.org/explorer
Recording of a male Western Gray Squirrel caught in a cage trap; squirrel had been trapped as part of a study by the University of Washington and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife on the Fort Lewis army base in western Washington; squirrel was examined by a biologist and was released;
Habitat type: hardwood forest near wetland area with ash, oak and Douglas Fir;
Conditions: mild temperatures; winds calm with high humidity and overcast skies;
Recorded using PCMD50 recorder with internal microphones in X-Y pattern with a 44.1 kHz/24 bit sampling rate
