This new book by Richard W. Thorington Jr. and Katie Ferrell has recently been published by John Hopkins University Press. The book contains over 100 photographs and, using a question-and-answer format, covers all aspects of the diverse squirrel family. To find out more and how to order your own copy, go to JHUP. Also see our Publications […]
The SquirrelWeb team wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2007. Please let us know about squirrel research being undertaken, update reports on current research, useful equipment and contacts, publications and any other items of general interest. Thank you.
It’s easy to make the right choices in a world that is predictable. For example we plan our holidays around average weather patterns and work schedules. Similarly, animals in the wild, time reproduction to match seasonal increases in food supply. However, if the world is unpredictable, making the right choice is far more difficult. That’s […]
The presence of alien North American grey squirrels is of extreme concern and could have potentially devasting impacts on native Eurasian red squirrels and woodland ecosyetms in central and southern Europe – see the Aliens and Current and Recent Projects web pages. A study on a recently discovered population of grey squirrels in Ticino Park, Lombardy (N […]
Andrea Grill from Italy has started a new project on the phylogeography and post-glacial history of the European squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris – see the Projects Page. You may be able to help if you have tissue samples of red squirrels from known locations throughout Western, Central, Southern and Eastern Europe. If this is the case, please […]
Andrea Grill The red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris, has declined dramatically in Europe during the last century. Nevertheless, phylogeographic data covering its entire distribution area, which provide the basis to identify the evolutionary significant units of this species and to establish an effective conservation strategy on a European scale, are still missing. Our project is directed […]
A conference about red squirrel conservation, organised by Scottish Natural Heritage, will be held at the Pollock Halls, Edinburgh on Monday, 27th Februiary 2006. Deputy Environment Minister Rhona Brankin will be present and will open the meeting. For further information, see www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2006/01/12090830 .
The Scottish Squirrel Survey, funded by Scottish Natural Heritage, was established in March 2005 and is coordinated by Mel Tonkin, Scottish Squirrel Survey, c/o Scottish Wildlife Trust, Cramond House, Kirk Cramond, Cramond Glebe Road, Edinburgh EH4 6NS. It aims to set up a sustainable system of survey and monitoring of red and grey squirrels throughout […]
Recently, it was pointed out to us that a list of lesser known holidays published in the Washington Post included January 21st as Squirrel Appreciation Day. Apparently, this holiday only dates back to 2001. Further information about this holiday can be found at :www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/January/squirrelappreciation.htm Let’s all observe and celebrate Squirrel Appreciation Day by putting out […]
Happy New Year to everyone from the Squirrelweb Team.