Role in the Ecosystem by: Jack, Joey, and Tyler

1. They are prey of American Minks, Weasels, Red Foxes, Bobcats, Gray Wolves, Canadian lynx, and Coyotes.

2. They are hosts of ticks, fleas, lice, and roundworms.

3. Eastern Gray Squirrels diet’s consist of all sorts of plants, nuts, seeds, fruit, and grasses.

They also gather certain kinds of plant

buds and blossoms from flowers/plants.

4. Sometimes they bury acorns & forget about them.

In it’s place is a new oak tree.

5.  They live in Hardwood Trees and Coniferous Forests.

6. They build nests about 25 feet of the ground.

7. Sometimes they eat insects, frogs, small rodents, small birds, eggs, and they will also raid bird feeders.

8. When they scatter, their nuts and berries it is called scatter hoarding, the pattern makes sure that even if some nuts or berries are found by other animals most nuts and berries are still there and may be forgotten to grow into trees.

9. “Scatter hoarding” is putting nuts and berries into hundreds of different places.



10. They also provided food for settlers a long time ago.