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Wildlife Reports => Southern Ontario Wildlife => Topic started by: JTF on December 16, 2009, 02:32:05 PM

Title: Owl Food
Post by: JTF on December 16, 2009, 02:32:05 PM

Vole

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Post by: Axeman on December 17, 2009, 02:23:50 PM

So what is the difference between voles and mice...and shrews...

Title: Ref: Owl Food
Post by: JTF on December 17, 2009, 06:54:06 PM

The meadow vole which is this one has resembles a mouse but with a stouter body, a shorter hairy tail, a slightly rounder head, smaller ears and eyes.  The Common Shrew has small eyes, a pointed, mobile snout. Deer mice vary from pale buff to deep reddish-brown upperparts; sides and underparts whitish; tail blackish on top and whitish below; nose and inside of ears, pink.