The
harvest mouse is a tiny and elusive mammal, widespread in the Palaearctic and Indomalayan regions, from Spain and Great Britain to Japanese islands (Wilson & Reeder 2005).
Ali Ahmed TOP TREND: Naturalists are celebrating after a wildlife survey revealed encouraging signs of one of the North East's rarest mammals, the
Harvest mouse.
The survey included the first report of a
harvest mouse in Teesdale for 40 years.
Harvest Mouse Nest Hunt | Join the experts at Parc |Slip Wildlife Trust Visitor Centre in Tondu tomorrow from 10am.
vagrans), a California Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys californiens), and a
Harvest Mouse (Reithrodontomys megalotis) at sites where we captured Brush Mice.
Vole 1 B Crocidura leucodon Bicolored white-toothed shrew 1 Mus musculus House mouse 2 C Micromys minutus
Harvest mouse 1 Mus musculus House mouse 3 Myodes glareolus Bank vole 1 Microtus sp.
Range, Distribution and Habitat of the Western
Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys megalotis in Indiana.
Pine marten, red squirrel, otters and
harvest mouse are also being monitored in Wales over the coming months, so more volunteers will be needed.
Significantly more individuals of the western
harvest mouse and the house mouse were captured in Museum Specials than Sherman live traps.
Some of the nests shown are for hummingbirds, sea turtles, Caribbean flamingos, a
harvest mouse, a Baltimore oriole, a three-spined stickleback (fish), a paper wasp and an elf owl.
The data will be integrated with findings for other endangered tidal marsh species, such as the salt marsh
harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys raviventris).