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 ...

In a town called Formby, both citizens and conservationists began feeding the local red squirrels. From the 1990s to the 2010s, the free peanuts became their main source of food. Eventually ...

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 ...

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 ...