They arrived in the UK around 200 years ago. “Red squirrels are hanging on in Scotland ... by focusing on their whiskers, which are unique to each animal. "Whiskers are like a human fingerprints ...

The endangered species was identified by Julie Bailey from the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA), a partnership of forestry and conservation organisations. Ms Bailey said she initially found four red ...

Red squirrels in the UK eat a variety of food, depending on where they live. In northern Scotland, red squirrels almost exclusively eat pine cone seeds which they extract by gnawing away the cone ...

It was Michel’s fondness for red squirrels that prompted him to lie ... Michel captured this profile, using the gentle dawn light to highlight its whiskers and tufted ears. Rather than hibernating, ...

While scrambling grey squirrels are a common sight in parks and forests across the UK, red squirrel sightings ... identify individual squirrels by their whiskers, which Ms McClenaghan explained ...

Red squirrels, once widespread in the UK, have seen their numbers severely decline since the introduction of the invasive grey squirrel. Now, they are only found in a handful of woodland and are ...

There are about 140,000 red squirrels in the UK compared to 2.5 million grey squirrels, which were introduced from North America in the 1800s and have replaced reds across almost all of England ...

A rare colony of red squirrels has been discovered on a tree plantation in the Yorkshire Dales. The endangered species was identified by Julie Bailey from the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA), a ...