Talk:Red Squirrel

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1 Limited geographic scope
2 Number of young
3 In Britain
4 A potential article source on Great Britain's squirrel wars

[edit] Limited geographic scope

I added the information about the species' status in Slovenia, which should be replaced with more general information (mainland Europe and other continents) if someone can provide it. --Eleassar my talk 20:04, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

At least for me, the article is sufficiently globalized now, so I removed the template. --Eleassar ^{my talk} 17:15, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

I added a disambig for the American Red Squirrel to make the article clearer and more globalized. Having the link 3 paragraphs in is too far. -Ravedave 22:27, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

I haven't the time to do an edit now, but this section states, "Red coats are most common in Great Britain", which is (sadly) no longer true (as it says later in the article). I haven't the time to edit now, but if no one else does then I will do it later...

I think this refers to the actual coat colours, as opposed to the distribution generally. Most UK reds are actually red, whilst in Europe the coloration is a lot more variable. Naturenet | Talk 14:32, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Number of young

SteveBaker wonders what this means:

"Each litter usually contains 4-8 young, although 3 is usual."

So is that 3-8 ? This doesn't make any sense. This site http://www.squirrels.org/red.html says 4 or 5 per litter - but it's not clear whether it's talking about European Red Squirrels or American. This site http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/euro_red_squirrel.htm says 3 or 4 Here: http://www.kellingheath.co.uk/unique_environment/the_red_squirrel_breeding_programme.html it says:

  "Female Red Squirrels tend to produce one litter a year with an
   average of 3 young, though it is possible for a female to have
   2 litters in a year and up to 6 young in a litter.

...no sign of anyplace where it says 8 young are possible. I think you are confused by the number of young one female could have in a year... which could (at a stretch) be 8...in two litters of four.

This site also confirms 3-4 per litter and up to two litters per year: http://www.the-piedpiper.co.uk/th1e.htm

On this basis, I'm fixing the presumed error in this page.

Yes, that seems correct. I don't know what my source was when I wrote that, I'm trying to be better with my references these days. --Mike C | talk 20:35, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I believe this may have been a typographical error. The BBC News website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/191.shtml) claims that they: "have a litter of 1-8 (usually 3)" - SRP —Preceding unsigned comment added by SRPogson (talk • contribs) 13:42, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] In Britain

I think they have been wiped out in England, but are still found in scotland? Don;t know about Ireland and Wales High Heels on Wet Pavement 00:34, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Then you think wrong[1]. Naturenet | Talk 12:10, 11 November 2007 (UTC)