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The River Colne and the Wraysbury River originate as chalk streams and support aquatic plants including river water-dropwort, great yellow-cress, and pennyroyal. The site includes wet meadows, flooded gravel pits, and ponds, that provide habitat for kingfisher and water vole, while the rivers support a diversity of fish, including dace, chub ...
The European water vole (Arvicola amphibius) or northern water vole is a semi-aquatic rodent. It is often informally called the water rat , though it only superficially resembles a true rat . [ 3 ] Water voles have rounder noses than rats, deep brown fur, chubby faces and short fuzzy ears; unlike rats their tails, paws and ears are covered with ...
The Trust carried out the first and second national water vole surveys in 1989-1990 and 1996–98. [6] These surveys identified the crash in the water vole population in Britain. Following the publication of the first survey, the water vole was given a degree of legal protection in 1998 under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act.
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European water vole, Arvicola amphibius LC globally, [7] EN in Great Britain; Short-tailed field vole, Microtus agrestis LC [8] Common vole, Microtus arvalis LC [9] Orkney vole, M. a. orcadensis VU [6] Bank vole, Myodes glareolus LC [10] Family: Muridae (mice, rats, and kin) Wood mouse. Yellow-necked mouse, Apodemus flavicollis LC [11] Wood ...
Water vole may refer to: In North America, the North American water vole (Microtus richardsoni) In Eurasia, the three species of the genus Arvicola: European water vole (Arvicola amphibius; previously Arvicola terrestris) Southwestern water vole (Arvicola sapidus) Montane water vole (Arvicola scherman
Martino's Dinaric vole, Dinaromys bogdanovi VU and: [n 1] Western Dinaric vole, Dinaromys longipedis [3] (Balkans) European water vole, Arvicola amphibius and: [n 1] Italian water vole, Arvicola italicus [2] (Italy, Switzerland) Montane water vole, Arvicola monticola, A. scherman [n 2] LC; Southwestern water vole, Arvicola sapidus VU (Spain and ...
A water vole found in Western North America was historically considered a member of this genus, but has been shown to be more closely related to members of the genus Microtus. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Head and body lengths are 12–22 cm (4.7–8.7 in), tail lengths are 6.5–12.5 cm (2.6–4.9 in), and their weights are 70–250 g (2.5–8.8 oz).