What Is The Species Of Wild Small Animal That Is Solid Black With A Round Face And Small Round Ears?

Alluring wild fauna to your garden is all about providing the correct plants for wildlife, wildlife shelter and food.

Most small UK mammals exercise not hibernate. Instead, they reduce their activeness to conserve energy in winter, but will feed intermittently during balmy weather.

Although small mammals are normally wild and secretive, gardens offer winter aid in the form of spilled bird seeds, dry sheds, outbuildings and compost bins, so they'll venture nearer to humans from their more normal woodland border and hedgerow haunts.

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Discover some of the marvellous modest mammals you could come across, with the help of our detailed small mammal identifier.

Most small UK mammals exercise not hide. Instead, they reduce their activity to conserve energy.

Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus)

An illustration of a white-bellied, orangish-brown woods mouse with large ears, eating a nut

The forest mouse has an orange-brown body, with stake-grayness underside, that grows to eight-10cm. Its tail adds 12cm. Lives in wood edges and hedges. A good climber. Mostly nocturnal, it eats seeds, shoots, buds, berries, insects and snails.

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Harvest mouse (Micromys minutus)

An analogy of a pale-bellied, orange-brown harvest mouse property on to the branch of a bush-league with its tail

Orange-to-red-brown body with pale underside is 5.5-6.5cm. Prehensile tail five-7cm. The harvest mouse nests in a rough ball of woven grass stalks above ground. Found in grasslands and eats seeds, grain, grass shorts and insects.

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Dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius)

An illustration of a tawny dormouse with a fluffy tail sitting on a co-operative

Stocky, tawny torso 6-9cm; fluffy tail 7-7.5cm. Found in woodlands and hedgerows. Hibernates in a subterranean, loose grass ball nest, sometimes in bird boxes. Volition continue to sleep if uncovered, and then needs to be put back carefully. Snores.

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Common shrew (Sorex araneus)

An illustration of a night brown common shrew with a whiskery, long, pointy snout

The 5-8.5cm body is tricoloured: its head (with long, whiskered snout) and back are dark brown, the sides of its body are pale dark-brown and its underbody is greyish. Tail two.5-4.5cm. Eats insects, spiders and snails. Fights for territory with other shrews.

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Bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus)

An illustration of a chestnut-brown bank vole, with minor ears, a circular confront and flat snout

The bank vole'south anecdote-brown body, with paler yellowish-grey underside, reaches 8-11cm. Its hairy tail is 3.5-7cm. Has a short, round face with blunt snout and small ears. Active in daytime, it eats grass, roots, seeds, worms and insects.

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Field vole (Microtus agrestis)

An illustration of a yellowish-brown field vole with a round face and ears almost hidden past fur, nibbling a hazelnut

Yellowish-brown body of ix.513.5cm. Pinkish tail 2.5-4.5cm. Has a brusque, round face, with ears nearly hidden past fur. Nocturnal in summer, but day-feeder in wintertime. Eats generally seeds and leaves.

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Mole (Talpa europaea)

An illustration of a black-brown furred mole with hidden eyes, pointy snout and long-clawed paws

The mole has a cylindrical body of up to 14cm, with a stubby 3cm tail. Covered in short, dumbo fur – black to taupe – its squat limbs end at pinkish, spade-like paws. Digs subterranean burrows, throwing upward soil hills. Eats worms, insect grubs and other small mammals.

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Weasel (Mustela nivalis)

An illustration of a long, cherry-red-brown weasel with a white underside, standing on its hind legs

Smaller than the stoat, the weasel's slim, slinky body reaches 21cm and its tail an extra 5cm. It has short legs, red-brown fur and a white belly. Information technology is a ferocious predator (for its size) of mice, voles, rabbits and birds.

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Stoat (Mustela erminea)

An analogy of a long, chestnut stoat with a white underside and blackness-tipped bushy tail, standing on its hind-legs

The stoat's slim, body reaches 35cm. It has cherry-brown fur and a white belly. The tail, 12cm, is bushy with a blackness tip. In winter information technology moults to all-white (except tail tip). Eats pocket-sized mammals, birds, eggs and feces.

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Many thanks to Chris Shields, for providing the beautiful illustrations used in this feature.

www.illustratedwildlife.com

Source: https://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/garden-wildlife-identifier-small-mammals/

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