Red squirrel

Sciurus vulgaris · Sciuridae

The red squirrel, also called Eurasian red squirrel, is a species of tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus. It is an arboreal and primarily herbivorous rodent and common throughout Eurasia.

Where the Red squirrel lives

Recorded in United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Russia and Spain (Europe and Asia).

Most records fall in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Akershus, Oppland, Gelderland, Hedmark and Noord-Brabant.

See the Red squirrel’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 993,847 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.