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harvest mouse

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harvest mouse
1. a very small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse, Micromys minutus, inhabiting cornfields, hedgerows, etc., and feeding on grain and seeds: family Muridae
2. American harvest mouse. any small greyish mouse of the American genus Reithrodontomys: family Cricetidae


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Those ponds once hosted vegetation like cordgrass, gumplant and salty, bitter pickleweed, which in turn provide homes for rails and the salt marsh harvest mouse, also listed as endangered.
truei = pinyon mouse, Reithrodontomys megalotis = western harvest mouse, and other).
Bair Island - which contains the largest unbroken chunk of wetlands in the area - is home to dozens of wildlife species, including the endangered California clapper rail, a shore bird, and the salt marsh harvest mouse, which is an important food for the peregrine falcon.
 
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