ABOUT THE SQUIRREL CENSUS
The Squirrel Census is a multimedia science, design, and storytelling project focusing on the Eastern gray (Sciurus carolinensis). We count squirrels and present our findings to the public. In October 2018, we tallied the squirrels in Central Park in New York, NY. This first phase of the Central Park Squirrel Census — the on-the-ground research and data-gathering conducted by the Squirrel Census Team and over 300 volunteers, with help from The Explorers Club, NYU Department of Environmental Studies, Macaulay Honors College, the Central Park Conservancy, and New York City Department of Parks & Recreation — was covered in a number of media outlets, including The New York Times, Popular Science, Now This, Atlas Obscura, and others. We presented our findings Thursday, June 20, 2019, at The Explorers Club in New York, NY. Additionally, we have performed two counts of Inman Park (Atlanta’s first suburban settlement, in 2012 and 2015), a number of satellite counts at other parks, and we’ve put on something called “Burning Squirrel."
CENTRAL PARK SQUIRREL CENSUS 2019 REPORT
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“The sun shone through October treetops. The air glistened. Mosquitoes squeeeeeed by ears. Central Park hummed low, rich with activity and greenery and soil and the poignant wait, wait, wait for Autumn to finally show to the happy party. Throughout, the Eastern grays worked the acorn mines. And our legion of Squirrel Sighters, equipped with clipboards and pencils and buttons and curiosity, observed and appreciated and recorded the ways of Sciurus carolinensis. The Central Park Squirrel Census was on.”
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