{"id":259664,"date":"2026-01-23T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/259664\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:24:07","slug":"public-asked-to-watch-out-for-squirrels-and-pine-martins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/259664\/","title":{"rendered":"Public asked to watch out for squirrels and pine martins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The public are being urged to keep their eyes open for squirrels and pine martins.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Galway, Ulster Wildlife and the Vincent Wildlife Trust are looking for the public\u2019s assistance in tracking Ireland\u2019s iconic woodland mammals.<\/p>\n<p>The public are invited to record their sightings of three species in particular \u2013 red and grey squirrels, and the pine martin.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Colin Lawton spoke to Midwest Radio\u2019s Eleanor Prendergast about the 2026 All-Ireland Squirrel and Pine Martin Survey\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/COLIN.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/COLIN.wav<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The public are being urged to keep their eyes open for squirrels and pine martins. Researchers from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-259664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}