Yep, folks, red squirrels can be a destructive menace for their size, and I place them in the same nuisance category as raccoons. The last place you want them to be is in your attic!

Its tail is not only more fitting in length to the red squirrel’s diminutive size, but it is more compact in the bushiness factor. They are in fact pretty sleek little animals.

About twice the size of chipmunks (2.5 to 4.5 oz.) and half the size of gray squirrels (about one pound), red squirrels (4.5 to 8 oz.) split the difference. (For comparative purposes, southern ...

A red squirrel will chase down animals twice their size to protect their territory.” Palmer doesn’t know for sure if the squirrel is male or female, but he is certain the animal is a bit of a ...

Mar 26, 2015 — Small but aggressive, red squirrels are most at home in conifer forests where they prefer a diet of cones supplemented with whatever else is around.

Red squirrels are surprisingly omnivorous and eat baby birds, bird eggs, insects, frogs and carrion — dead animals. In the spring, they eat tree sap, gnawing away the tips of maple twigs to ...

Lucas A. Wauters, Mwangi Githiru, Sandro Bertolino, Ambrogio Molinari, Guido Tosi, Luc Lens, Demography of Alpine Red Squirrel Populations in Relation to Fluctuations in Seed Crop Size, Ecography, Vol ...

"Long-term impacts on Mount Graham red squirrel’s population size and habitat include wildfire, insect infestations, competition with non-native Abert’s squirrels, and poor pine cone crops ...

The Mount Graham red squirrel population peaked in the 1990s at about 550. The numbers began to decline again and typically ranged from 200-300 squirrels annually up until the 2017 Frye Fire.

Mount Graham red squirrels were believed to be extinct in the 1950s, but a small population was rediscovered in the 1970s, and in 1987, the USFWS listed the subspecies under the Endangered Species ...