<p dir="ltr">Thank you Brian</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 4:51 PM Brian Zinke <<a href="mailto:zinke.pilchuck@gmail.com">zinke.pilchuck@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Christina,<div><br></div><div>Here's WDFW's webpage on rabbits: <a href="https://wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/living/species-facts/rabbits#common-rabbits" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/living/species-facts/rabbits#common-rabbits</a></div><div><br></div><div>As a former Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit biologist for WDFW, I can assure you it is not a pygmy rabbit. They number in the hundreds, have a very restricted range in eastern Washington, and require sagebrush. Nuttall's cottontail is also a shrubsteppe species and very unlikely to be seen around Tacoma. My best guess would be a young eastern cottontail. One thing you can look for is the namesake white cottontail. It will be very obvious on an eastern cottontail, more inconspicuous on a Nuttall's, and non-existent on a pygmy rabbit. </div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps!</div><div>Brian</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 4:11 PM Christina T bean 4 ever via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hello all, I had an encounter with a VERY small rabbit with very small ears in my neighborhood. My neighbor has a lot of trees and wood on the ground in his yard.I think it lives there. Can anyone point me in the direction of either identification or to find out if it is a rare species? Thanks Christina Tacoma</div>
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