A 2019 study found that in moonlight, if it is a red owl, the chance of a field vole escaping is pretty good. However, if it ...

Voles, on the other hand, are omnivorous, but they mostly eat plant roots and leaves. Voles closely resemble field mice, and they have dark gray-to-brown fur, round ears, and stubby tails. Compared to ...

Voles are rodents that closely resemble mice or hamsters. They are often called field mice because of their tendency to ...

Consider the vole-fox system described in the first section. Field voles (Microtus agrestis) and bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) preferentially consume forbs and grasses, but they will turn ...

The nose of this small rodent is yellowish orange, and thus another common name, the yellow-nosed vole. The rest of the body is yellowish to grayish brown above and silvery gray below. The ears ...

Journal of Mammalogy, 55:417-427. Martell, A.M. 1981. Food habits of southern red-backed voles (Clethrionomys gapperi) in northern Ontario. Canadian Field Naturalist, 95:325-328.

This natural survival strategy, known as coprophagy, reveals how wildlife makes the most of every available resource.

Once every spring, a few days after the full moon, corals of the great barrier reef release eggs and sperm simultaneously - a phenomenon so ...

This is a place where the years can be measured in voles, especially the bank vole and field vole, which bore through the mass of low-lying plants at ground level. Some years vole numbers boom ...

“We've had some very clear sightings over the last few weeks and identified field signs during in-stream surveys that 100% confirm their presence." It is now hoped the success of water vole ...

placing additional pressures on populations of field mice as well as bank and field voles. Habitat restoration and protection has also allowed birds of prey to thrive, including white-tailed ...

"The abundance of field signs show that water voles are now thriving on the River Meon and this is incredibly important when nationally their future still remains uncertain," she added. Elaina ...