“People loved it,” Stuart Bowler says about participating in the Squirrel Census. “The tales they were coming back with — saying, ‘ah I never believed that I'd have so much fun walking through the undergrowth, you know, looking for little squirrels.’”
This census, which is run by a rag-tag group of data scientists and moonlighting naturalists, spotted 433 squirrels overall. Tompkins Square Park in the East Village had the most sightings. Four parks — Sternberg and Cooper Parks in Brooklyn as well as Thomas Paine and Sara D. Roosevelt Parks in Manhattan — recorded zero sightings. Grey squirrels were the most common , followed by cinnamon-colored squirrels and then black squirrels . One squirrel entry wasn’t labeled with a color.
The squads of volunteers change, but the mission remains the same. When the census decides to count in a particular park, anyone can sign up — no experience necessary.Jamie Allen, founder, gives an orientation to volunteers in Central Park.These datasets are the first of their kind for these parks, and provide vital scientific information about urban wildlife.
“There’s a lot of questions that we have about urban organisms,” said Elizabeth Carlen, an evolutionary biologist researching urban squirrels at Washington University in St. Louis who was not involved with the census. “And if we had these historical datasets, which now The Squirrel Census is building, we can begin to ask those questions.”A squirrel climbing up a tree near Strawberry Fields in Central Park.
“As more natural environments are harmed or taken away from them, you’re going to see more and more animals adopting more of the behaviors of squirrels,” said Jerolmack, who participated in the census count with his 4-year-old son.
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