Checklist of Yorkshire mammals

The complete checklist of the mammals of Yorkshire can be seen by clicking here.

Yorkshire's cetaceans

A fuller account of all of the recent records of whales, dolphins and porpoises which have been sighted from Yorkshire's coasts and rivers can be seen by clicking here.

Mammals and Lower Vertebrates Recorder

Dr C.A.Howes  Tel: 01302 811037

                       email: colinhowes@blueyonder.co.uk

Red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris are found only in the very north-west of Yorkshire, close to the Cumbrian border. Elsewhere they have been forced out by habitat loss and by both competition with the ubiquitous grey squirrel Sciurus carolinensis and a disease which this introduced species carries.