Which os the only species of the Old World flying squirrel found in Europe?
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Siberian flying squirrel The Siberian flying squirrel ("Pteromys volans") is an Old World flying squirrel with a range from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific coast in the east. It is the only species of flying squirrel found in Europe. It is considered vulnerable within the European Union where it is found only in Finland, Estonia and Latvia.
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Old World flying squirrel Commonly referred to as simply the Old World flying squirrels, the genus Pteromys is distributed across temperate Eurasia, Korean Peninsula and Japan. Although there are a host of flying squirrel genera in Asia (particularly southern Asia), "Pteromys" is the only one present in Europe.
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Muscicapa Muscicapa is a genus of passerine birds belonging to the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, and therein to the typical flycatchers of subfamily Muscicapinae. They are widespread across Europe, Africa and Asia with most species occurring in forest and woodland habitats. Several species are migratory, moving south from Europe and northern Asia for the winter.
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Groove-toothed flying squirrel The groove-toothed flying squirrel or North Chinese flying squirrel ("Aeretes melanopterus") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is monotypic within the genus Aeretes.
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Père David's rock squirrel The Père David's rock squirrel ("Sciurotamias davidianus"), also known as the Chinese rock squirrel, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to China, where it is found widely in rocky habitats in the eastern and central parts of the country. This largely terrestrial squirrel is overall dull olive-grey with paler underparts, a distinct pale eye-ring and a dark patch on the cheeks. It has sometimes been confused with the rather different –but in colour very variable– Pallas's Squirrel; an introduced population in Belgium was first mistakenly identified as Père David's rock squirrel.
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Empis stercorea Empis stercorea is a large species of dance fly, in the fly family Empididae. It is found in most of Europe, except the Iberian Peninsula.
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European mouflon The European Mouflon ("Ovis gmelini musimon") is the westernmost and smallest sub-species of mouflon. It was originally found only on the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia, but has since been introduced into many other regions of Europe.
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Spermophilus relictus Spermophilus relictus is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. It is sometimes called the relict ground squirrel or the Tien Shan ground squirrel, a name also used for "Spermophilus ralli", which is sometimes considered the same species.
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Mountain ground squirrel The mountain ground squirrel ("Xerus princeps") is a rodent that is native to southwestern Angola, western Namibia, and western South Africa. It is also known as the Kaoko ground squirrel or the Damara ground squirrel.
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European robin The European robin ("Erithacus rubecula"), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in the British Isles, is a small insectivorous passerine bird, specifically a chat, that was formerly classified as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae) but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher. About 12.5–14.0 cm (5.0–5.5 inch) in length, the male and female are similar in colouration, with an orange breast and face lined with grey, brown upperparts and a whitish belly. It is found across Europe, east to Western Siberia and south to North Africa; it is sedentary in most of its range except the far north.
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Mexican ground squirrel The Mexican ground squirrel ("Spermophilus mexicanus") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Mexico and the United States.
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Little ground squirrel The little ground squirrel or little souslik, ("Spermophilus pygmaeus") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found mostly in Central Asia east to the Aral Sea.
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Brazilian squirrel The Brazilian squirrel (or Guianan squirrel) ("Sciurus aestuans") is a tree squirrel in the genus "Sciurus" endemic to South America. It is found in North-eastern Argentina, Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname and Venezuela.
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Chinese giant flying squirrel The Chinese giant flying squirrel ("Petaurista xanthotis") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to China and Laos .
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Red-legged sun squirrel The red-legged sun squirrel ("Heliosciurus rufobrachium") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae, also commonly known as the crab-eating mongoose and the isabelline red-legged sun squirrel. It is native to tropical western and central Africa where its range extends from Senegal in the west, through Nigeria and the Republic of Congo to Uganda and Tanzania in the east. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and moist savanna. This species is thought to be common and has a very wide distribution, so the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being of "least concern".
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Siberut flying squirrel The Siberut flying squirrel ("Petinomys lugens") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Jentink's flying squirrel The Jentink’s flying squirrel ("Hylopetes platyurus") is a species of squirrel native to Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Icterine warbler The icterine warbler ("Hippolais icterina") is an Old World warbler in the tree warbler genus "Hippolais". It breeds in mainland Europe except the southwest, where it is replaced by its western counterpart, melodious warbler. It is migratory, wintering in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Santander dwarf squirrel The Santander dwarf squirrel "Microsciurus santanderensis" is a small tree squirrel endemic to Colombia.
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Larix decidua Larix decidua, common name European larch, is a species of larch native to the mountains of central Europe, in the Alps and Carpathian Mountains as well as the Pyrenees, with disjunct lowland populations in northern Poland and southern Lithuania. Its life span is given by different authorities as anything between 100 and 350 years, but the most reliable is normally about 200 years. It is claimed that one of the larches planted by the second Duke of Atholl at Dunkeld in 1738 is still standing.
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Japanese squirrel The Japanese squirrel ("Sciurus lis") is a tree squirrel in the genus "Sciurus" endemic to Japan. The Japanese squirrel's range includes the islands of Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū. Recently, populations on south-western Honshū and Shikoku decreased, and those on Kyūshū disappeared. One of the factors affecting the local extinction of this species seems to be forest fragmentation by humans.
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Scots pine Scots pine ("Pinus sylvestris" L.) is a species of pine that is native to Eurasia, ranging from Western Europe to Eastern Siberia, south to the Caucasus Mountains and Anatolia, and north to well inside the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia. In the north of its range, it occurs from sea level to 1,000 m , while in the south of its range it is a high altitude mountain tree, growing at 1200 – altitude. It is readily identified by its combination of fairly short, blue-green leaves and orange-red bark.