Siberian Flying Squirrel
Pteromys volans
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,177
- Most observed in
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is an Old World flying squirrel ranging from the Baltic Sea in the west, throughout Northern Asia to the coast of the Pacific Ocean in the east. It is the only species of flying squirrel in Europe and is considered vulnerable in the European Union where it occurs only in Estonia and Finland. In Latvia, it was last sighted in 2001 and has been considered to be locally extinct since 2013.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Siberian flying squirrel”.