Long-tailed Weasel Images, Facts and Information:
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- Long-tailed Weasels have brownish backs, long brown tails with black tips and white to yellowish undersides during the summer, during the winter they are snowy white and retain the black tipped tails. Long-tailed Weasels in the southern parts of their range may stay brown.
- Females can be 10 to 15% smaller than males.
- Long-tailed Weasels habitats include woodlands, open areas, thickets, and farmlands, They usually love near a water source.
- Long-tailed Weasels can be found from southern Canada, throughout most of the lower 48 of the U.S., Mexico, Central and South America.
- Long-tailed Weasels prey on mice, voles, rats, squirrels, chipmunks, shrews, moles and rabbits. They will also take small birds, eggs, reptiles, fish, worms, amphibians, and insects.
- Long-tailed Weasels have 5 to 8 young which are called kits.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Long-tailed Weasel photos.
Curious Long-tailed Weasel close up in poor light
Title: Curious Long-tailed Weasel close up in poor light
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/24/2018
Close up of the Long-tailed Weasel’s facial injury
Title: Close up of the Long-tailed Weasel’s facial injury
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/23/2015
Long-tailed Weasel at a burrow
Title: Long-tailed Weasel at a burrow
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/23/2015
Portrait of an injured Long-tailed Weasel
Title: Portrait of an injured Long-tailed Weasel
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/23/2015
Long-tailed Weasel sniffing excrement in the road
Title: Long-tailed Weasel sniffing excrement in the road
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/23/2015
Long-tailed Weasel standing in tall grasses
Title: Long-tailed Weasel standing in tall grasses
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/23/2015
Long-tailed Weasel in front of a burrow in a road
Title: Long-tailed Weasel in front of a burrow in a road
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/23/2015
Long-tailed Weasel looking back over its shoulder from a road
Title: Long-tailed Weasel looking back over its shoulder from a road
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/23/2015
Long-tailed Weasel standing up
Title: Long-tailed Weasel standing up
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/2/2014
Long-tailed Weasel near a burrow of some kind
Title: Long-tailed Weasel near a burrow of some kind
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/2/2014
Long-tailed Weasel in its winter coat
Title: Long-tailed Weasel in its winter coat
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/2/2014
Long-tailed Weasel on a hillside
Title: Long-tailed Weasel on a hillside
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/2/2014
Adult Long-tailed Weasel in its snow white winter coat
Title: Adult Long-tailed Weasel in its snow white winter coat
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/2/2014
Long-tailed Weasel at a badger burrow
Title: Long-tailed Weasel at a badger burrow
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 5/13/2014
An American Badger with its prey, a Long-tailed Weasel
Title: An American Badger with its prey, a Long-tailed Weasel
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 5/13/2014
An American Badger with a Long-tailed Weasel
Title: An American Badger with a Long-tailed Weasel
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 5/13/2014
Long-tailed Weasel in summer coat
Title: Long-tailed Weasel in summer coat
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/15/2010