Red Fox

Similar Species:
All other North American canids lack conspicuously with-tipped tail Common Gray Fox, often confuses with this species, is reddish on backs and outsides of ears, around neck, and on sides of belly , but otherwise is gray and lacks white tail tip,.

Breeding:
Mates January- early March; 1 litter of 1-10 kits born March–May; in maternity den; gestation 53 days.

Habitat:
Varied; mixed cultivated and wooded area, and brushlands.

Range:
Most of Canada and U.S. except for far north, nw British Columbia, much of w U.S. and s Florida.

Signs:
Den: Maternity den, commonly an enlarged Woodchuck or American Badger den, usually in sparse ground cover on slight rise, with view of all approaches; may also be in stream bank, slope, or rock pile, or in hollow tree or log. Main entrance in earthen mound, typically up to 3’. Wide, slightly higher, with littered fan or mound of packed earth; 1- 3 smaller, less cons pious escape holes. Den well marked with excavated earth, cache mounds where food is buried, holes where food has been dug up , and scraps of ones and feather.
Scat: Similar to that of Common Gray Fox, but sometimes paler.