Summer foods include leaves, herbs, legumes, fallen fruit, garden vegetables, low broad-leafed weeds, clover and grass. An individual seldom leaves its home territory, where it knows food sources, cover and escape routes thoroughly. A rabbit’s home range may be a quarter-acre to 20 acres, depending on the availability of food and cover. Rabbits seldom dig dens, preferring to occupy abandoned woodchuck burrows. Feeding areas are rarely far from good cover. Preferred habitat includes swamps, thickets, briar patches, weedy fields, brush piles, overgrown fencerows and brushy gullies.

Cottontails are 15 to 18 inches long and weigh two to three pounds, with females slightly heavier than males.

Some individuals have a small white blaze on the forehead. It has a distinct 2-inch-diameter white tail. A rabbit’s soft fur is brownish above and white below. It hops when running, because its hind legs are longer than its front legs. The cottontail rabbit is a long-eared, small- to medium-sized mammal of the family Leporidae. Because of its popularity and conspicuousness, the rabbit arouses interest both in those who hunt and those who simply enjoy wildlife. It is one of the wild animals most often seen in towns and suburban areas. The cottontail rabbit is one of Pennsylvania’s most popular small game animals. Printable Cottontail Rabbit Wildlife Note (PDF)

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