[va-richmond-general] Re: Sunday birding and fox question

another help may be to look for the white tip on the tail of the red fox which 
is lacking on the tail tip of the grey foxes. 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Bumpass <dbumpass@xxxxxxx>
To: va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 20:12:44 -0500
Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Sunday birding and fox question


I'm not much of a wildlife buff, but I did a google image search on the
phrase "gray fox".  What I found were pictures of gray foxes with lots of
reddish orange.  I found the paragraph below on gray foxes from an Illinois
website.  The paragraph also mentions gray foxes as having reddish orange
bands.  I don't know if this is what you mean by red.



"From a distance, the gray fox looks like a small dog. Adults are 35 to 44
inches in length. Weights range from 5 to 14 pounds. The sides of its neck,
backs of its ears, and underside of its tail are rusty yellow. A
reddish-orange band separates the whitish throat and belly from the upper
sides and back, which are a salt and pepper gray. A black mane made up of
long, course hairs extends along the top of the tail from its base to its
tip, which is also black."



www.inhs.uiuc.edu/dnr/ fur/species/grayfox.html



The link below shows a Virginia gray fox with plenty of red.



plank-road.com/ indexb/fox.htm



By the way, a google image search is a great way to see additional pictures
of a species.  It's a great way to supplement your bird book when bird's
don't quite look like one of the pictures.



Diane Bumpass



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ben saunders" <betsyben@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 6:10 PM
Subject: [va-richmond-general] Sunday birding and fox question
.....

>          We also saw two fox, one gray and one with red on his front half
> and gray on the back.  Do they hybridize or was this two- toned fox just
> growing out his winter coat? Are they all gray in the winter?
>
> Betsy and Ben Saunders

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