Image of American Pika

Description:

1 adult seen & heard, and perched fecal pellets found (fecal pellets pictured - they're near-spherical and about 2-3 mm diameter). Habitat was an isolated granitic talus patch, probably <1 ha, some of it unsuitable for pika. Surrounded by low cover subalpine to alpine meadow, tree thickets (whitebark pine, lodgepole pine), and igneous rocks too small for pika use. This is CNDDB element occurrence number 80842 (www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/cnddb/)