There is an all black squirrel visiting my corn pile. It is the size of a grey squirrel and not a fox squirrel. I know there are other black animals in nature. I think the condition is melamine or something like that. Would it have a taxidermy value? Watched it Friday and Saturday afternoon. It is not as nervous as the other squirrels and does not appear to bury corn kernels. It just eats.

Southern Ontario is polluted with the black phase grey squirrel.
Black phase apparently more common in northern part of their range.

Grey squirrells are known to migrate in large numbers quite long distances from time to time so maybe thats why there are some black phase showing up in your area.

There is a beauty that just died under my front yard tree half hour ago. I think it was hit by a car.

We have quite a few of them around me.

Growing up I thought grey squirrel were the different color. Most here are black

we have more blacks than greys here. same animal different colour

BSM-

I've read that black is the dominant color if bred into them. We have both colors here and fox squirrel

Had one crawl under my deer stand this morning. Usually see one every year here.

worth around 40-50 bucks on www.taxidermy.net, have sold black and whits squirrels on there

all kinds of them here

Never knew they were this common.

There is a town in Western NC that has white squirrels that are not albino. Tourist travel to see them. They even have a festival.

many here,

This BLM thing is way outta hand.
There are black squirrels in Marysville KS, Lincoln, NE and Council Bluffs IA. Fox skirrels I think. The big ones. I'd like to have some to transplant to other towns. I love to see squirrels. Except the smashed ones.

Wow. Guess I'm trapping the wrong critters

It's not worth it to have to deal the people on that site, unless it's changed in recent years.

Same here...lots and lots of black squirrels they never used to outnumber the greys but they do now in my neck of the woods.

Blacks are taking over.

One in every wood pile.

Black squirrels are a melanistic subgroup of squirrels with black coloration on their fur. The phenomenon occurs with several species of squirrels, although it is most frequent with the eastern gray squirrel and the fox squirrel. Black morphs of the eastern gray and fox squirrels are the result of an abnormal pigment gene