Fauna of Latvia - European Beaver, European Water Vole, List of Non-Marine Molluscs of Latvia, Wood Mouse, Hazel Dormouse, Common Vole (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: European Beaver, European Water Vole, List of Non-Marine Molluscs of Latvia, Wood Mouse, Hazel Dormouse, Common Vole, Common Shrew, Lesser Noctule, Harvest Mouse, Nathusius's Pipistrelle, Mountain Hare, Edible Dormouse, Barbastelle, Eurasian Pygmy Shrew, Parti-Coloured Bat, Bank Vole, Whiskered Bat, European Mole, Eurasian Water Shrew, Brandt's Bat, Soprano Pipistrelle, Field Vole. Excerpt: Bank Vole The Bank Vole, Myodes glareolus (formerly Clethrionomys glareolus ), is a small vole with red-brown fur and some grey patches, with a tail about half as long as its body. It lives in woodland areas and is around 100 millimetres (3.9 in) in length. It is found in western Europe and northern Asia . It is native to Great Britain but not to Ireland, where it has been accidentally introduced. The bank vole lives in woodland, hedgerows and other dense vegetation such as bracken and bramble . It can live for 18 months and is omnivorous, eating insects, leaves and fruits such as raspberries and hazel nuts. It readily climbs into scrub and low branches of trees. In areas such as mainland Great Britain where the only other small vole is the Short-tailed Vole ( Microtus agrestis ), it can be distinguished from that species by its more prominent ears, chestnut-brown fur and longer tail. Bank voles live in underground chambers lined with moss, feathers and vegetable fibre. Inside the chamber they keep a store of food. Young bank voles in their nest beneath a wood pile References (URLs online) Ferris-Khan, R. (Ed.). 1995. The Ecology of Woodland Creation. John Wiley