Diet Overlap

Colinus virginianus (Northern Bobwhite)
Urocitellus columbianus (Columbian ground squirrel)

Common Diet

Poa pratensis (Kentucky bluegrass)
Taraxacum campylodes (Dandelion)

Common Habitat

Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands
North America
Okanagan dry forests
Palouse grasslands
South Central Rockies forests

Attributes / relations provided by
1Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
2Individual variation in the ability of Columbian ground squirrels to select an optimal diet, MARK E. RITCHIE, Evolutionary Ecology, 1988, 2, 232-252
3Spermophilus columbianus, Charles L. Elliott and Jerran T. Flinders, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 372, pp. 1-9 (1991)