Nature Mapping Animal Facts

"Southern Red-backed Vole Myodes gapperi. Also known as Red-backed Vole or Gapper's Red-backed Vole. Formerly Clethrionomys gapperi
They have dense, long, soft fur in winter that changes to shorter, coarser fur in summer. The head and body length of red-backed voles varies between 70 and 112 mm. The tail is 25 to 60 mm long.

Range / Habitat:
Red-backed voles, , range from British Columbia to mainland Newfoundland and throughout the northern United States from the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians.
Red-backed voles inhabit cool, mossy coniferous forests with stumps, logs, or brush piles used for nesting.

Diet: Red-backed voles are omnivores and their diet changes with the season.
They eat insects, seeds, grains, nuts, flowers, leaves, roots, bark, lichens, and fungi.

Red-backed voles utter a chirp-like bark when disturbed. Predators include hawks and owls. They store roots, bulbs and nuts for later use."