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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

As well as carrying the squirrelpox virus, grey squirrels also out-compete the smaller reds in the search for food and habitat. Greys have displaced red squirrels in most of England and Wales and ...

Instead, they enter a lighter sleep and consequently require plenty of energy-rich food to endure the year's coldest months. Indeed, both grey and red squirrels play a crucial role in the ecosystem.

Raiding bird tables for food has become common behaviour. Their antics can be amusing as they’re very agile and determined, but they can get through vast quantities of seed and scare off garden birds, ...

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 ...