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Flying squirrels

John Benson, UNL assistant professor of vertebrate ecology, installs a nesting box for flying squirrels Dec. 22 East Campus. Researchers are hoping more people will install boxes in hopes of attracting the squirrels and helping with their research.

Flying squirrel

A flying squirrel on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus. Researchers hope people will help them document other sightings so they can learn how widespread they are.

A homeowner near 40th and Normal took a photo of a flying squirrel that moved into a birdhouse.

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Peter Salter

They screwed the slender wooden box to an oak tree two weeks ago, hoping Lincoln’s newest species — the southern flying squirrel — would make it a home.

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Plains leopard frog

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Ducks on Rancho Road

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Coyote

Coyote at Phares Park Monday, April 27.

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Woodchuck

South First and J streets on March 30.

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Political ducks?

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Duckling at Pioneers Park.

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Heron on Bowling Lake

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Snake on deck

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Monarch caterpillar on milkweed

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Young opossum hiding in a clay tile.

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Geese

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Critters

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Butterfly

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Bald Eagle at Branched Oak Lake

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Lincoln Memorial Park red-tailed hawk.

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Squirrel

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A fox at Capitol Beach Lake.

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Deer

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Opossum

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How to help a flying squirrel

For plans to build and install a nesting box, or to report flying squirrels for part of a research project, go to:

go.unl.edu/flyingsquirrel

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