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16-07-2011, 08:11 PM
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| | | Mouse identification
Hi - I'm new to Wild About Britain so please bear with me if I don't upload the photo correctly! 
Uploading this photo for a friend who I believe found this mouse in their garden and would like to know exactly what it is. Any help would be much appreciated.  |
16-07-2011, 08:37 PM
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| | | Re: Mouse identification
I take it that's a child's hand?
Hard to be sure from that pic, but the colour of the fur and the ears/tail are making me think House Mouse.
The other possibilities are Wood Mouse or Yellow-necked Mouse, but the view isn't good enough to be 100%.
It doesn't look very well, normally they move so quick you barely see them. |
16-07-2011, 08:40 PM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: North Yorkshire
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| | | Re: Mouse identification
Its almost certainly wood mouse looking at the pelage, ears and eyes. I agree it does not look well. |
16-07-2011, 08:48 PM
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| | | Re: Mouse identification
Yes - as I said, uploading for a friend so don't know much about it.
Think they found it dead a day after the photo was taken! 
Thank you for your suggestions, will pass it on. |
17-07-2011, 12:28 AM
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| | | Re: Mouse identification
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogghound  Its almost certainly wood mouse looking at the pelage, ears and eyes. I agree it does not look well. | That tail not a bit grey? I caught a House Mouse in the middle of nowhere a few months ago, and that was pretty sandy. The ones I get on farmland are quite brown. I wouldn't like to call this one on that single pic, with closed eyes etc. |
17-07-2011, 07:51 AM
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| | | Re: Mouse identification
You can see the eyes are big (bulgy even with them shut in comparison to Mus ). The head looks quite wide too and the coat is not a grey as I would expect in Mus. Tail perhaps not typical but can be quite variable especially in Apodemus which are continually shedding tail skin, which can make appearance differ. |
17-07-2011, 11:26 AM
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| | | Re: Mouse identification
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogghound You can see the eyes are big (bulgy even with them shut in comparison to Mus ). The head looks quite wide too and the coat is not a grey as I would expect in Mus. Tail perhaps not typical but can be quite variable especially in Apodemus which are continually shedding tail skin, which can make appearance differ. | Hmmmm. Want to take a punt on the sex and breeding condition?  |
18-07-2011, 05:23 PM
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| | | Re: Mouse identification
Well its most likely going to be sexually active at this time of year . As for sex its a parthenogenetic form of the woodmouse unknown to science until this thread was posted, stupid question = stupid answer | | |
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