Normally, red squirrels chomp on hard food such as hazelnuts, pine seeds, acorns and even tree bark. But during the 1990s conservationists provided a local population of red squirrels in Formby ...

Middens mark the presence of the red squirrel. The term midden in the case of this species refers to both food cache, and to the debris that accumulates over months and even years from stripping cones ...

Some squirrels received extra food for eight months during the analysis ... outcome after analyzing data from more than 1,000 ...

and buds for food, instead of stored nuts. The northern flying squirrel eats relatively more fungi, which it collects above ground, excavates from the soil, and pilfers from the caches of the red ...

At the top of the page: Female red squirrel forages for food. Photo by Juliana Balluffi-Fry. Above: Andrew McAdam, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of ...

This has happened for a number of reasons: The grey squirrel eats a wider range of food and can survive in areas of mixed woodland whilst the red squirrel cannot. The grey squirrel carries a ...

Scotland's red squirrels are at risk of a potential outbreak of squirrelpox at Bridge of Allan after reports from the public raise concern.