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12-09-2010, 08:39 PM
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| | | shrew ID
My kids found this dead shrew on a walk this morning in Oppy Wood (near Hull), next to a path. It looked freshly dead as the eyes were full and bright. It was quite small in size (about 6 cm). 
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12-09-2010, 09:04 PM
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| | | Re: shrew ID
Its very hard as its wet so fur colour isnt reliable. The tail length in comparison to the body is suggestive of pygmy shrew. However the overall look of it i.e. tail hair suggests a juvenile common shrew. |
12-09-2010, 09:11 PM
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Yeah! Tail`s too big and fat to be anything other than Pigmy Shrew.
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13-09-2010, 07:22 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shropshire
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Never seen one of these before. Is the tail of a pygmy hairier than a common? |
13-09-2010, 07:25 PM
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This is another view of the shrew on the hands of my 8 yr old for reference.
The hairy tail shows better here: 
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14-09-2010, 08:25 AM
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Gosh, yes, it's really distinctive. Nice to see someone else teaching their children to handle dead wild animals!  |
20-09-2010, 09:08 PM
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Thank you vole-woman. My kids are better than me, when I was a kid I always insisted in taking dead animals home (my parents were quite tolerant of this habit). Once I found a decaying blackbird which I took home as the skull was almost clean. In the corpse there were lots of beetle larvae which did a very good job for years as I kept them in jam jars and fed them any dead animals I happened to find. The adult beetles had a checkered black and white pattern on their abdomen. This was back in Spain and I hope one day I will find a similar beetle in this country and continue my skull collection!
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21-09-2010, 07:17 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shropshire
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| | | Re: shrew ID
I used to take home skulls, too. My mum was incredibly house-proud: I don't know how she tolerated it. I had a blackbird skull, and an unidentified baby bird's, which was thin as paper, and a rat skull as well as lots of little bones I'd found in owl pellets and stuck to card and labelled (wood mouse and shrew). I also remember gaining a lot of morbid enjoyment one summer from watching a dead cat decay by the road.
Mind, this was the early 70s and we had to make our own entertainment. I lived in a cardboard box on t' motorway, you know. |
21-09-2010, 07:29 AM
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Originally Posted by vole-woman  I lived in a cardboard box on t' motorway, you know. | You were lucky. I used to live......
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