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Photograph of a southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans) in Lincoln, Nebraska. This photograph was taken on 25 August 2020 by Donald Bouwens, Charter Communications Maintenance Technician, on a utility pole during routine maintenance of power lines.
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The southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans) is considered a species of greatest conservation need in Nebraska and listed as threatened in the state. Historically, the geographic range of the southern flying squirrel in Nebraska has been restricted to five eastern counties from a northern suburb of Omaha, Douglas Co., southward in the four count...
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... 25 August 2020 around 1000 hrs Central Daylight Time, maintenance technician Donald Bouwens was working on the "boot" of a utility pole located off Franklin Street between S 52nd and S 53rd streets in the established neighborhood of Woods Brothers Fairview Acres in southeastern Lincoln, when a flying squirrel emerged and surprised him. He was able to capture a photograph of the flying squirrel while it was in close proximity to him (Figure 1). He tapped on the boot to see if any others individuals would exit but no more did. ...
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... first mention in the literature of southern flying squirrel from Nebraska was by W. Edgar Taylor (1888), then a professor at Peru State, who described color variation in five specimens. These animals were collected in OctoberNovember 1885 and winter 1887 from "near Nebraska City, Nebraska, on the Missouri river" (Taylor 1888:745). The ultimate fate of these specimens is unknown. ...
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... 25 August 2020 around 1000 hrs Central Daylight Time, maintenance technician Donald Bouwens was working on the "boot" of a utility pole located off Franklin Street between S 52nd and S 53rd streets in the established neighborhood of Woods Brothers Fairview Acres in southeastern Lincoln, when a flying squirrel emerged and surprised him. He was able to capture a photograph of the flying squirrel while it was in close proximity to him (Figure 1). He tapped on the boot to see if any others individuals would exit but no more did. ...
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... first mention in the literature of southern flying squirrel from Nebraska was by W. Edgar Taylor (1888), then a professor at Peru State, who described color variation in five specimens. These animals were collected in OctoberNovember 1885 and winter 1887 from "near Nebraska City, Nebraska, on the Missouri river" (Taylor 1888:745). The ultimate fate of these specimens is unknown. ...
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... 25 August 2020 around 1000 hrs Central Daylight Time, maintenance technician Donald Bouwens was working on the "boot" of a utility pole located off Franklin Street between S 52nd and S 53rd streets in the established neighborhood of Woods Brothers Fairview Acres in southeastern Lincoln, when a flying squirrel emerged and surprised him. He was able to capture a photograph of the flying squirrel while it was in close proximity to him (Figure 1). He tapped on the boot to see if any others individuals would exit but no more did. ...
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... first mention in the literature of southern flying squirrel from Nebraska was by W. Edgar Taylor (1888), then a professor at Peru State, who described color variation in five specimens. These animals were collected in OctoberNovember 1885 and winter 1887 from "near Nebraska City, Nebraska, on the Missouri river" (Taylor 1888:745). The ultimate fate of these specimens is unknown. ...
