The Red Squirrel is about 11-13 inches long (including the tail), weighing in at about 5-8 ounces. Red Squirrels are small reddish brown rodents with large dark eyes, made more prominent by thick bright white eye-rings. Red Squirrel on the Logger's Loop Trail at the Paul Smith's College VIC (). Mammals of the Adirondacks: Red Squirrels are larger than Eastern Chipmunks, but smaller than Gray Squirrels. The references to pine and spruce stem from the Red Squirrel's reliance on seeds from conifers. The last two names point to the squirrel's well-earned reputation for noisiness. Other nonscientific names include Pine Squirrel, Chickaree, Piney Squirrel, Fairy Diddle, Piney, Rusty Squirrel, Spruce Squirrel, Boomer, and Chatter-box. However, Robert Hatt's 1929 survey of the Red Squirrel in the Adirondacks states that our Adirondack Red Squirrels fall into the subspecies gymnicus. Several general treatments of the Red Squirrel show the Adirondack version as T.h. Sources conflict on the identity of our subspecies.
The species name ( hudsonicus) is said to refer to the Hudson Bay region, where the type specimen was obtained.The latter two words are a reference to the squirrel using its own tail as a source of shade. The genus name ( Tamiasciurus) is derived from a combination of three Greek words: tamias (animal who caches food), skia (shadow) and oura (tail).
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