Interesting, I assumed they were the native cottontail! Is there a reliable way to tell them apart? Edit: Wikipedia says that they are morphologically almost i

Interesting, I assumed they were the native cottontail! Is there a reliable way to tell them apart? Edit: Wikipedia says that they are morphologically almost identical. Is the species distinction just a matter of genetics at this point? Normally I am bothered by invasive species, but somehow this doesn't seem to be such a problem, if you literally can't tell them apart without molecular analysis or looking at minor differences in their skulls. I am aware that similar situations have happened with house sparrows and starlings, where they have so successfully outcompeted the natives that you would think they were the native dominant species. At least starlings are easy to identify and can't be confused with anything native, but I don't think I could tell apart the different sparrows.