Red squirrel’s speed, hypervigilance and agility help them evade predators such as weasels, pine martens, raptors and fishers ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – You better move on. We recently caught sight of a wildlife confrontation out the kitchen window: a squirrel scampering on the same tree branch as a red tailed hawk. The squirrel ...

Jim Chaffin couldn't believe his stroke of good luck a few years back when a mountain finch took up residence in a tree next to his Missoula home. "They're as rare as hen's teeth, incredibly rare," ...

There was Christmas music in the background, and a bunch of little kids were admiring the puppies in the window of Pets R 'Inn. With a background of "Silent Night," I could tell the shoppers at ...

The population of endangered Mount Graham red squirrels held steady in 2025, according to the annual survey by state and ...

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There is a squirrel sitting in the dogwood tree outside our kitchen window. He sits there off and on all winter and summer. He has a reddish tail unlike any other squirrel in our yard. And he keeps ...

About a month ago, a hiker at Sand Ridge Nature Center in South Holland spotted a small creature with reddish brown fur scurrying up the trunk of a long-needled pine tree. “At first we thought it ...

I first saw this curious little animal on June 1. It was a beautiful day outside, but the cottonwood tree that grows next to my deck was in full seed-dispersal mode and sitting outside was not really ...