Adults weigh 454-681 g (1-1.5 lb). The deciduous forests of the eastern half of North America provide optimum habitat for the gray squirrel, but the range includes portions of the mixed forest in ...

In 2001, a wildlife rehabilitator named Christy Hargrove decided squirrels deserved a little respect. So she founded National Squirrel Appreciation Day, which takes place every January 21st. To be ...

Grey squirrels, or Eastern grey squirrels, primarily live in the Eastern ... However, when food is in short supply, they may ...

These squirrels are not albinos, but rather a variant of the eastern gray squirrel. A legend says Brevard’s white squirrels came to be because of an overturned carnival truck in Florida.

I was recently asked by a local TV news station to answer a question about how squirrels find their buried nuts. This is a great example of super cool things that go on in nature that most people ...

In 2003 former Tuskegee Airman and pioneering Black journalist Chuck Stone wrote “Squizzy the Black Squirrel,” about a Philadelphia boy who bonds with a black squirrel in Fairmount Park. Squizzy was ...

New York State is home to several squirrel species, including the Eastern Gray Squirrel and the American Red Squirrel. These ...

Population estimates for the squirrel range from 450 to 1,400 individuals — a ... Western gray squirrels superficially resemble invasive eastern gray squirrels, but they are bigger and have bushier ...