Flying Squirrels

Flying Squirrels: They live in woodlands, always use a already used nest that is empty and abandoned by the animal that made it. Multiple squirrels will nest together.

Red Squirrels

Red Squirrels: They live in both conifer and broadleaved woodland. They can be found at altitudes up to 2000m in the Alps and Pyrenees.

Flying Squirrels: Are omnivores they eat seeds, nut, fungi, fruit, and insects.

Red Squirrels: Eat spruce and pine seeds, acorns, berries, fungi, bark and sap tissue.

Flying Squirrels: They are common rodents in many parts of the country, but because they are nocturnal few people never really see them. Two subspecies of northern flying squirrel are federally listed as endangered due to habitat loss. Basically they are endangered.

Red Squirrels: They are still common in Europe, and are not classed as an endangered species at a worldwide level. However grey squirrels are beginning to spread through the forests of Northern Italy and, as in the UK, this appears to be at the expense of the native Red Squirrel.

Flying Squirrels: They have very large, round black eyes that help it see at night.

Red Squirrel: Their fur can range from warm reddish-brown in the summer to a deep brown in the winter.

Flying Squirrels: They are nocturnal, and have skin in between their arms and legs which allows them to glide from tree to tree avoiding creatures on the ground. Predators of the flying squirrels.

Red Squirrels: They are taken by a great variety of predators including almost all types of hawks (Cooper’s Hawk, Goshawks, Red tailed hawks, red shouldered hawks, broad wing hawks, northern harriers, and sharp-shinned hawks), several owls (the great horned and the great gray), the bald eagle the american kestrel, red fox, lynx, pine martens, minks, and timber rattlesnakes.

Flying Squirrel: Scientific name: Pteromyini

Red Squirrels: They have four fingers and five toes, They can be right or left- handed when eating a pine cone, They can swim, Reds’ coats moult twice a year, once after winter and then in the late summer before the weather gets colder. They moult their ear tufts once a year, in late autumn.

Red Squirrel: Scientific name: Sciurus Vulgaris. Lifespan is 5 or 6. Do they hibernate? No they also don’t leave instead they nest together with more than they normally would.