In the winter, reddish brown ear tufts and a bright rusty red stripe along the back develop while the black lines along the sides are usually faint or absent, and the underparts become silvery gray or ...

"Long-term impacts on Mount Graham red squirrel’s population size and habitat include wildfire, insect infestations, competition with non-native Abert’s squirrels, and poor pine cone crops ...

Apart from these differences, and larger size, the northern flying squirrel resembles the southern ... and pilfers from the caches of the red squirrel. Both species of flying squirrel travel over and ...

Grey squirrels can carry the squirrelpox virus that is lethal to red squirrels, and suffer no ill effects. Grey squirrel populations have increased to just under 3 million in the UK since they were ...

A rare colony of red squirrels has been discovered on a tree plantation in the Yorkshire Dales. The endangered species was identified by Julie Bailey from the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA), a ...

A giant flying squirrel – about the size of today’s house cats – once soared through the skies over what is now Southern Appalachia, gliding above rhinos, mastodons and red pandas.

The grey squirrel is not native to the UK - it was introduced from North America. There is great competition between the red and grey squirrel with the population of the grey outweighing that of ...