The gray fox has a white throat and belly. The chest and lower sides of the body, undersurface of the tail, backs of the ears, parts of the legs, feet and neck are reddish or yellowish brown. The ...

If you can see the feet, a red fox looks like it's wearing black stockings whereas a gray fox’s legs are some mix of gray, orange and white.

Our area’s smallest wild canid, the Common Gray Fox, competes with coyotes, raccoons, bobcats, and other predators for its living space and meals.

Both native and introduced red foxes compete with gray foxes for resources. These factors led to a decline in gray fox populations in the 1800s. More recently, with the abandonment of farmland and ...

The gray wolf and red fox were both named for their fur coloration. ... Gray wolves may have brown, white, black, or reddish ...

A big male gray fox tips the scales at 15 to 20 pounds. Vixens are about half that. The overall length is about 3½ feet, but one-third of that is bushy tail.

ABOVE: The Wye Oak tree in Maryland was the nation’s oldest white oak tree until it fell in June 2002. BELOW: A gray fox.

The gray squirrels I grew up with in western New York 50 years ago sported a handsome gray back and tail above a white belly, and that’s still the most commonly encountered pelage in forested ...

While the red fox is mostly of reddish fur, that of the gray fox is gray above and orange and white below, with a black streak on the length of the bushy tail. ADVERTISEMENT.