How to Use red squirrel in a Sentence

red squirrel

noun

• Both the red squirrel and the ghillie are featured on the bottle called The River Spey.
  — Matthew Kronsberg, Bloomberg.com, 17 Feb. 2021
• In fact, red squirrels in the British Isles need some extra love.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Oct. 2017
• Native species like the Mount Graham red squirrel cling to survival in the forests.
  — AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• In 2017, the Frye Fire wiped out much of its habitat on Mount Graham, the only place the red squirrel subspecies lives.
  — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 4 Dec. 2020
• Bebe had brought the red squirrel with her from Germany when the couple moved to Washington in 1936.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• The red squirrel was scaled up for size and had to be revised after the initial design: The original Ulysses was too fond of food.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• One is the Mount Graham red squirrel, whose habitat was severely damaged by a wildfire in 2017.
  — Amanda Morris, azcentral, 30 Mar. 2020
• Of the many species that call it home, the Mount Graham red squirrel resides in critical habitat in the mountain islands that includes only spruce-fir forests above 9,200 feet.
  — Erin Stone, azcentral, 18 June 2020
• 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
• 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
• Wood frogs waited in tundra ponds, magpies in shrub thickets, red squirrels in boreal woods.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Modern red squirrels have a strain of leprosy closely related to a medieval human strain.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2024
• 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
• Given that, there’s no need to stigmatize today’s red squirrels because of leprosy.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Oct. 2017
• In 2017, the survival of the Mount Graham red squirrel was dangerously in doubt after the Frye Fire nearly wiped out much of its preferred environment.
  — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2020
• Researchers congregate there each summer to study the North American red squirrel.
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Gray squirrels, on the other hand, outnumber red squirrels by roughly 10 to 1 reports Stokstad.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017
• 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
• Safford: After a devastating 2017 wildfire nearly wiped the species out, the Mount Graham red squirrel, the nation’s rarest small mammal, continues its slow climb out of the danger zone.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024