National University of Ireland, Galway 22nd April 2005 Organised by Dr Colin Lawton [UPDATE] Proceedings of the Symposium are now available: Lawton, C. (Ed.) (2005). Proceedings of the Irish Red Squirrel Conservation Symposium, 22nd April, 2005. 20pp. National University of Ireland, Galway.
On 1st January 2005, Maria Salmon wrote to say that she has a problem with a grey squirrel who is stealing pebbles, about the size of a walnut, from her garden, and she wondered if anyone had heard of or seen this unusual behaviour, and why the squirrel was doing it? Maria would also like […]
The SquirrelWeb team will soon post all sightings of squirrels sent in on a new webpage in SquirrelWeb. Thus, all sightings of red squirrels, unusual colour morphs, or other squirrel observations, will be welcome.
Nicolas Ramos and John Koprowski The conservation and ecology of Mearns’s Squirrel (Tamiasciurus mearnsi) in Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California, Mexico The Mearns’s squirrel is an montane island endemic found in the highest regions of Baja California’s greatest mountain range at elevations around 3000 m. The species is considered to be threatened in Mexico […]
JNCC and PTES are funding a new red squirrel monitoring study to start in January 2005 and will continue for 2 years. The aim is to produce recommendations and costings for an effective red squirrel surveillance scheme in the UK. The study will be carried out by Robbie McDonald (Quercus, School of Biology and Biochemistry, […]
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John Koprowski Arizona gray squirrels (Sciurus arizonensis) were first described about 150 years ago, yet there has not been a single publication on the ecology of this species. Often considered to be uncommon in the mountain islands of the deserts of Arizona and extending slightly into northern Mexico where the species is considered to be […]
Simon Bell from the Natural History Unit, BBC, Bristol has confirmed that a new programme about squirrels in the Wildlife on One Series will be broadcast on Thursday 11th November – it is called SQUIRRELS – Are They Tough Enough?
Marleen Vermeulen, a biology student from Antwerp, Belgium, is working on this project under the supervision of Luc Wauters as part of the collaboration in alpine squirrel research between the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy and the Research Group of Animal Ecology, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Amanda Lloyd Thesis abstract: Red and grey squirrel populations (Sciurus vulgaris and S. carolinensis respectively) and the influence of forest management were studied in Kielder forest, Northumberland and Creech forest, Hampshire between 1998 and 2001. The majority of the work was carried out in Kielder, an upland conifer plantation consisting primarily of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), […]