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The American red squirrel is barely twice the size of a chipmunk and prefers pine forest and pine nuts as a dietary staple.

Peanuts are easier for squirrels to eat than well-armored pine nuts or hazelnuts. The red squirrel is protected, so scientists curious about the impact of its diet looked at specimens that had ...

In northern Scotland, red squirrels almost exclusively eat pine cone seeds which they extract by gnawing away the cone scales one by one. In northern England’s mixed deciduous and coniferous ...

Lots of Scottish woodlands house some red squirrels but the pine forests and broadleaf woodlands of the Highlands offer some of the best chances.

Normally, red squirrels chomp on hard food such as hazelnuts, pine seeds, acorns and even tree bark. But during the 1990s conservationists provided a local population of red squirrels in Formby ...

The pine marten was captured by cameras set up to monitor red squirrel movements Rare pine martens have been seen in Northumberland's Kielder Forest for the first time since it was planted more ...

The red squirrel is the only species of squirrel native ... That led them to change to much harder nuts, such as pine or hazelnuts, the type the squirrels would have been eating naturally.

Take a leaf out of the book of the red squirrel, and try our quiz of the day. It was Squirrel Appreciation Day this week, and ...

Staff from its Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) plan to put in boxes on the land to attract pine martens. Research has suggested that they could help red squirrels to flourish by removing ...

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 ...