Finland has a weird classification of some animals. The coat is gray all over, the abdomen being slightly lighter than the back, with a black stripe between the neck and the forelimb. Siberian flying squirrels can be seen in the northern parts of Europe and in Asia. As a kid, you may have seen flying squirrels in museums or zoos.

Photographer Nick Upton has spent some very long days (and nights) in the field capturing some rare images of this unusual and engaging creature in an Estonian forest. Close.

We used mark-recapture data from 1992 to 2004 for 3 flying squirrel populations to estimate the demographic parameters of these populations. Satu Lampila, Laura Kvist, Ralf Wistbacka and Markku Orell, Genetic diversity and population differentiation in the endangered Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) in a fragmented landscape, European Journal of Wildlife Research, 10.1007/s10344-009-0259-2, 55, 4, (397-406), (2009). The gestation period is about 40 days, and they have roughly 2-6 young per litter. O ccasionally, there is a second litter in the autumn. Most of the populations are concentrated in Siberia and Mongolia. Seven subspecies are recognized. Scared Of Flying Fear Of Flying Stuffed Animals Beautiful Creatures Animals Beautiful Animals And Pets Cute Animals Small Animals Flying Squirrel. Within the European Union, most of the species population occurs in the southern part of Finland (Santangeli et al. Siberian flying squirrel First described in 1758 The native habitat of the Siberian flying squirrel (or pteromys volans to its closest friends) stretches all the way from Finland to the Bering Sea.

We examined how the structure of a boreal forest landscape is related to the occurrence of the Siberian flying squirrel Pteromys volans in northern Finland.

The flying squirrel is a nocturnal arboreal squirrel widely spread throughout the Eurasian taiga. It's very cute, but it's not endangered. Mysterious Flying Squirrel Could Get Endangered Species Protection. For the southern flyi ng squirrel, there are usually two litters each year with the young born between April-May and August-September. The efforts that saved them may help other species that become endangered. The coat is gray all over, the abdomen being slightly lighter than the back, with a black stripe between the neck and the forelimb. 1. This year, that number climbed to 530. The Siberian flying squirrel ranges across Northern Europe and Russia, but a population on the Japanese island of Hokkaido is now considered an endemic subspecies, known as …