I often enjoy the more common side of nature, the nature in our own backyards or neighborhood park that we see every day – for example, the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis).

The gray squirrel’s appearance differs seasonally. The yellowish brown summer coat becomes thicker and gray in winter, the pelage of some individuals strikingly silver-gray. Underparts and eye-rings ...

The grey squirrel is having a 'devastating' impact on Britain's songbird population, according to a new study by the wildlife charity Songbird Survival. It now ranks alongside the cat as the top ...

No not little green men!

If you hate tree rodents, this is your weekend. State of play: Arkansas' annual Big Squirrel Challenge, where participants ...

OLYMPIA, Wash.— The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission today voted to uplist western gray squirrels from threatened to endangered under the state’s endangered species act. Population estimates ...

The grey squirrel’s yellow-brown summer coat grows thicker and turns a silvery-grey color. They also eat large amounts of food to bulk up for the winter. Some scientists believe grey squirrels ...

We often overlook or ignore the more common critters in the natural world. The eastern gray squirrel and chipmunk come to mind as examples of common critters that many people don’t think ...

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 ...

Philip Cox has received funding from the Royal Society. Red squirrels have been replaced over a large part of Great Britain by the non-native grey squirrel, introduced from North America in the ...