How to Use red squirrel in a Sentence

red squirrel

noun
  • In fact, red squirrels in the British Isles need some extra love.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Oct. 2017
  • And since red squirrels can breed twice a year, a generation might only be six months apart.
    — Brian Gordon Green, National Geographic, 9 June 2018
  • The traps are designed to be too strong to allow red squirrels and other small mammals like dormice and voles to enter.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017
  • Native species like the Mount Graham red squirrel cling to survival in the forests.
    — AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Wood frogs waited in tundra ponds, magpies in shrub thickets, red squirrels in boreal woods.
    — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Both the red squirrel and the ghillie are featured on the bottle called The River Spey.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, Bloomberg.com, 17 Feb. 2021
  • As the researchers work under the sunshine in the 6-degree air, a red squirrel rattles and chickadees sing.
    — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Given that, there’s no need to stigmatize today’s red squirrels because of leprosy.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Modern red squirrels have a strain of leprosy closely related to a medieval human strain.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2024
  • Paul wrote, pointing out that several biologists later showed that martens don’t eat a lot of red squirrels.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Sep. 2019
  • While observing her surroundings, Crawford came upon a red squirrel and placed some nuts for the miniature mammal to eat.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Bebe had brought the red squirrel with her from Germany when the couple moved to Washington in 1936.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Possibly, but the whole picture is more complex, not least because of the history of the red squirrel in the British Isles.
    — Stephen Harrison, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2016
  • Researchers congregate there each summer to study the North American red squirrel.
    — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Understanding what’s going on could help us in our efforts to protect and regrow the red squirrel population.
    — Stephen Harrison, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2016
  • Where pine martens are present, the evidence suggests that gray squirrel populations are suppressed and red squirrel numbers rebound.
    — Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Since then, researchers have also identified the disease in wild chimpanzees in West Africa and in British red squirrels.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2024
  • Give yourself a few hours to explore these enchanting grounds, home to more than 2,000 exotic species from across the world and a number of red squirrels.
    — Julia O'Driscoll, The Week Uk, theweek, 11 June 2024
  • Festus is a red squirrel who has spent most of the summer building a variety of nests and storage facilities on a shelf under the part of our deck covered for wood storage.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Better tree diversity—in this case, rooting more oak, maple, and pecan—creates a welcoming habitat for local wildlife like black bears, red squirrels, and bald eagles.
    — Leilani Marie Labong, Architectural Digest, 25 Nov. 2024
  • According to a press release, the red squirrel, Scottish wildcat and grey long-eared bat are particularly threatened.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 16 June 2018
  • Gray squirrels, on the other hand, outnumber red squirrels by roughly 10 to 1 reports Stokstad.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017
  • Their subsequent analysis of the four strains found that the infection bounced between red squirrels and humans in Winchester’smedieval hustle and bustle.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2024
  • In an attempt to stop this, authorities around the world are protecting coral reefs by killing starfish, protecting salmon by killing sea lions, and protecting red squirrels by killing grey ones.
    — F.d. Flam, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
  • One is the Mount Graham red squirrel, whose habitat was severely damaged by a wildfire in 2017.
    — Amanda Morris, azcentral, 30 Mar. 2020
  • On Monday afternoon, a spastic red squirrel furrowed and tugged at a wet blanket draped over the rain fly of a red single-person tent ringed with empty containers.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Spruce-cone seeds mitigate the early-life trauma and lengthen the lives of Yukon red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris), but peanut butter does not.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • On that 30-degree morning, other traps contained a northern flying squirrel, an American red squirrel and two more voles.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Just last year, for example, news broke that the heir apparent to the British throne lets red squirrels run free inside his Scotland home, hunting for nuts in his coat pockets.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 14 Mar. 2019
  • So while the Big Five are in abundance, so are shy red duikers, diminutive suni antelopes, Tonga red squirrels, and 436 bird species.
    — Nicola Leigh Stewart, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2024

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