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Centre for Environmental Data and Recording📝🦇🐝🐋🌺
📍Northern Ireland
Partnership with NIEA , National Museums NI & the recording community

https://www2.habitas.org.uk/records/home
Have you seen a red squirrel or other mammal and want to record your sighting? Contribute to the CEDaR Anniversary mammal recording project: www2.habitas.org.uk/records/mamm...
NI Mammal Recording Project | CEDaR Online Recording
www2.habitas.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
⚠️ The largest threat to red squirrels is the invasive grey squirrel which outcompetes them for resources and spreads squirrel pox, a disease that doesn’t affect grey squirrels but is deadly for red squirrels
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
😴 In winter they don’t hibernate, but they do conserve energy by resting and sleeping more. Fresh food becomes scarce at this time, so they rely on stores of food they have kept in trees
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🌳Higher populations found in mixed broadleaf and coniferous woodland areas where there is greater diversity of species and availability of food. They live in dreys made from interwoven twigs and lined with moss, leaves and grass

😊They have a lifespan of 6 years on average
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
⚠️It is a species of special concern, please submit any sightings using CEDaR’s invasive species recording form: www2.habitas.org.uk/records/ISI

Want to learn more about this invasive species? Book tickets to our evening lecture @ulstermuseum.org: nationalmuseumsni.digitickets.co.uk/event-ticket...
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
🚫Under the Alien Species Order NI 2019 it is an offence to keep, breed or transport this species. Offence under the Wildlife and countryside Act to knowingly distribute this species

💷Estimated to cost the agricultural industry in Scotland £10million annually
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
🌳Found in NZ in shady and wooded areas. Introduced to NI in the early 1960s, has been found here in gardens, nurseries, parks, pasture and woodland.

🪱Feeds exclusively on earthworms in some cases reducing populations by 20%
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM