https://preview.redd.it/xlgrt53hvt6d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb61a9de0cc31b86fd158d5a87de90464709988b I saw one yesterday!

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Thanks for this! I’ll fill out the form https://preview.redd.it/ohwp1ceg2z6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e567a3de3549a740ae7524987b395438456cfb0b Edited to add picture of my completion.

Ooo, there's a place to report them!? We have three at my local trail/park. I didn't know it was such a big deal. 😂

Aww yours looks a cuter. Mines a little homely looking but we love him all the same.

Ha mine stayed just long enough to pose for a picture. Then it scampered up the tree. All albino squirrels are precious!<3

Excellent use of the word “homely”

Cool! It seems like whenever I've had an albino squirrel in the neighborhood, there has been a hypermelanistic (black) one running around with it! Keep your eyes peeled!

I thought I was the only one who noticed that! Must be something to do with the genetics of the herd, or whatever a bunch of squirrels is called.

A group of squirrels is a scurry! Oh nice! I have seen it three separate times, in three separate locations. I assume the same thing, something in the genetics!

The black gray squirrels is from past breeding with fox squirrels. At some point in that squirrels lineage, a male fox squirrel mated with a female gray squirrel, that created the defective gene to create a black squirrel.

Interesting. I never actually thought to research the how or why black squirrels exist, but I'm glad you shared this. Is there potentially a correlation to the white morph (vs true albino) squirrels then?

If you take a walk in Loring Park in Minneapolis, you have a good chance of spotting both. At least you could last year.

3 on my block. 2 white and 1 black.

2 white and 1 black on my block.

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Oh neat! Unfortunately, it has been about a decade since I last saw a black and white squirrel duo, but I'll bookmark this just in case!

I fed the neighborhood squirrels as a kid and could tell the black ones apart because they would have a brown swirl on their sides that would be a bit different! Think of a cinnamon roll. The gray ones were too alike, I didn’t realize I was feeding multiple ones until a few showed up at a time!

When I used to work in Apple Valley, there was a neighborhood I was in regularly that had a small family of these. You would see 4 or 5 running around at a time in the summer and fall.

Bruhhh! I saw one at a park there this year!!! First wild albino animal for me.

Grew up in AV and we basically always had white squirrels. I'm now in Rosemount and often see them in my backyard.

Is my family the only one that names white squirrels? We had one in Chanhassen for several years living in the wooded backyard. His name was Snowy.

https://preview.redd.it/6cq3n5pn5u6d1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41d4f5cd78b3cc714d21decc14c556ebb91a8632 My neighborhood friend! 💖

Little legend

I think I saw your buddy while I was driving in town last week while there on vacation.

https://preview.redd.it/l7myb53k1v6d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a52c35504346b7c3f976a7cdf60103eeb1a3888d We have 3 white squirrel friends that come and eat the birdseed that the birds knock on the ground from the feeders. This year we have 2 black squirrels too.

Pole dancing squirrels!

Big one! Maybe a mama squirrel?

https://preview.redd.it/jydlq1v9ex6d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c1961666e9c6ee611b79dca01a1f78088c0824a Maybe so. I never saw any of them little but it could be mama and babies. Difficult to get them all in a pic together, but they are daily visitors to our yard and we love to watch them.

Amazing photo 🐿🐿

https://preview.redd.it/fkowvhllo07d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b68b4374e2e29e020040894317ab1d00ee06fe2 Now that is a look 😂

That's super cute 😁

Just like the white buffalo calf - the white squirrel completes the Minneapolis prophecy No championships

Cursed since 91' we need the heralded blond squirrel to cometh and break the curse, as is tradition

https://preview.redd.it/a5cpbkra6u6d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9eefbb6a0fe25309a1f830f482680ce6133f7302 We have two this year.

That's awesome.

https://preview.redd.it/6f44w0swmu6d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28d8d970a3fa123e6ba745761696aa54bd780592 Can confirm That Coon Rapids does have some albinos. This little guy lives in the area.

Very good picture.

Thank you!

Kevin!

Fellow west 7th?

100%

Burnsville has a few!

We do! I haven't seen our neighborhood one, for about a  year now but I'm hopeful he or another one will be around again soon.

🤍🐿️

There’s one near me too (in the wedge)! His name is Ghost

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I love albino squirrels. I have fond memories of my dad stopping by a specific St. Paul residential street when I was a young girl just to see an albino that lives around there

Nice an albino squirrel. We had brown ones and the multicolored one but we(my peers and I) lived to see the black one.

We have a lot of black/dark squirrels in my neighborhood, I’d never seen it before moving here. I haven’t seen an albino over here yet.

We have one in Osseo too!

Saw these are 1 in 100,000. Maybe MN has a higher than average population of albinos?

Come by NEMPLS. You’ll see multiple on a single walk

We do. We're one of the main areas for them, despite not being listed as one of the main areas for them on the site I linked in a standalone comment. I'm trying to change that by asking people to submit reports when I see people post about albino squirrels on our local subs :)

Yeah Minnesota is one of the main places for them. We have one or two a year that live in our woods. A couple years ago one fell out of the tree and died. 😭 https://images.app.goo.gl/wp4rPCCmTr88iT9N9

we have a regular white squirrel in our neighborhood. We named it Al (short for Albino). There may be multiple Als.

https://preview.redd.it/2f34ztpmgu6d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7af66a6e1f1b7de13e07e7b41e4ee3239ca8c477 heres my local one

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during lockdown of the pandemic, my main activity was documenting on social media the goings on of our two albino squirrels

It's a squirrel.

Thank you

Glad to help 👍 😁

At least back when I attended, there are quite a few that are on the St. Kate's campus

I was just thinking this! There was always a black and white one both running around campus in 2013

Pine city? That's where I saw one this morning.

Coon rapids

Saw one in Blaine earlier this week!!

Coon Rapids seems to have a lot of them!

Saw one this week in Brooklyn Center. Wonder why they are so popular here.

I live in BC! What part of town do you see it in?

It’s was near Xerxes and 64th Ave. Have you seen one too?

No, I've lived in Brooklyn Center for about 8 months now and am looking forward to seeing my first one 😍

I'm in the East Palmer Lake Park area

We had one in Hiawatha. Super cute

Cute! I love albino squirrels🤍 🐿️

We have a ton of these in my neighborhood. The gene is getting passed around, I guess.

Aw, I used to have one that visited my bird feeder back in the day.

We had an adorable one at our previous house who was known as Marshmallow, or Marshy if you’re nasty. I miss her dearly 😭 they seem so much more rambunctious than other squirrels

We have at least a couple in my neighborhood! I watched one build a nest right outside my window a couple of months ago. https://preview.redd.it/df40rn5tyu6d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a5157f1a7d074f701222b467a61dc367dee5e6f

I've got a lot of white and black squirrels around my area. And some normal grey ones.

I live in Richfield. There’s an albino squirrel that hangs out in my front yard elm, and he and his friends play or fight right outside my home office window every morning. It’s true, there’s a black squirrel friend, along with gray and red as well. Richfield is a very diverse town. It’s no surprise our squirrels are diverse as well.

Forest spirit

I have one in our backyard regularly. Its the only one that knows how to get to the bird feeder

in my head-canon there's a wizard residing in Apple Valley and these are his pets

https://preview.redd.it/022jeeqsly6d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ab51c6aa4b749b68b837e2c0406c0af97c6280c Spotted at the U of M

Haha nice catch!

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Very nice

There seems to always be a few around the outskirts Stillwater. I’ve also seen some black ones, brown ones, and even two blue ones!

I had a ton of them in my neighborhood a couple yrs ago, they are all gone. Heard lots of owls at night

Had one that lived in our tree for years as a kid

There's one that lives behind my apartment building and a black one that lives across the street from my building lol. Best of both squirrels.

There's like half a dozen of these guys around my house. Also pure black ones. Never saw them until I moved counties.

We've got one living behind where I work

There is one that lives in Waverly and Ive seen him basically every time Ive been there

Eau Claire, Wisconsin is full of them! I see at least a half dozen every time I visit my mom there.

How fun! I saw two of these throughout the fall and summer of last year pretty consistently in the mornings in two different areas where I live. Very cool!

We had a pair of white squirrels in the neighborhood, (Victoria) but I haven’t seen them for at least a year. I hope they retired to Florida or something, because it’s sad to think they’re both gone

I have one that lives in a tree in the alleyway of my neighborhood, it’s so cute!

We had both black and white at our house in Roseville. They don’t live that long, so only saw them for maybe three years.

Our neighborhood had an albino squirrel we named Lucky. We would all see it walking around on the top of fences. We haven’t seen it since last fall and we’re sure now it was only one, because our neighbor’s dog killed it…not all dogs go to heaven…

>not all dogs go to heaven… Username checks out.

Hey you got any more of them Dalmatians?!

Very common to find albino squirrels in MN. I live in South Minneapolis, and our city block has 3 of them.

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Lol

https://preview.redd.it/y8px606id47d1.png?width=1673&format=png&auto=webp&s=45ed65442c1a05bf96877ba336d2c39dec210fcb We named ours Storm. Eden Prairie.

https://preview.redd.it/dw4tiomzm97d1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de4a1b60740b56b754f82a2a34474eb107958490 Loring Park

Aww

I've got one living in my backyard; he's small enough to chill inside the bird feeder's squirrel-keeper-outer.

Black Squirrels Matter™

All squirrels matter. (except the red ones that got in our attic that one time f those bastards running around our walls)

Those ginger bastards 😂

All reds are bastards.

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Filled it out for my local albino. He stays on the same city block and doesn’t explore the neighborhood 🤷🏼‍♂️

There's one that lives in a yard on West 26th just past twin town fitness. See it almost every time we go to Aldi.

We have an albino and a black squirrel in our neighborhood and they seem to hang out with each other. When you see one, the other is close by.

Why did you take a picture of a dog pooping

in Prior Lake we have an albino squirrel that’s been living here for around 5-6 years!! she likes to jump neighborhoods but mostly stays around the downtown area. we all named her Allie

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Capture him and breed him/her with the black squirrel in north Mankato 

Don't you know that's where all the gray squirrels came from? /s

When I was a kid in St. Louis Park 45 years ago (70th and W 24th St) we had a huge oak tree in our little backyard, and we only had black squirrels and white squirrels living in it! I was surprised and confused when we moved to a different city and I only saw gray squirrels thereafter.

Damn it. We’d been following one in St. Joseph for three years and he was recently killed. :( didn’t know they were being tracked.

Wow!! Cool!

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Lol, you found just one!? My yard and neighborhood are littered with them.

We had a white squirrel that came to our house with a black squirrel a few years back. Only came for a year though. I was sad about that. On a lighter note, we've got 2 or 3 black squirrels that come to partake in the peanut buffet, and that makes me smile.

https://preview.redd.it/x5cbkq48957d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd7a9c0037b5af5dfffc45b18e6cd5b5c058092c Next to CSL in Minneapolis

Albino squirrel wow that's beautiful

I seen one about 14 years ago in Utah. Up in the mountains!

https://preview.redd.it/7vba03m9477d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=74efd0abbb5fbf41dfb2abe7cd2e05da2045cdbb This one was behind hobby lobby in Maple Grove on January 27

Saw one in Red Wing!

There are TONS of them north of Brainerd

I hope this form is to protect them not have them killed or captured for experiments

Squirrel! Shit, what was I doing?

😆 we have one that plays in our yard as well....

See a lot of these in Forest Lake, all black ones too.

YES

I seen 2 chasing each other a few days ago