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Gray-tailed Vole

Microtus canicaudus

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) philipspencer, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Oregon.

United States	227
Oregon	206
Washington	21

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Chordates · Chordata
Class	Mammals · Mammalia
Order	Rodents · Rodentia
Family	Hamsters, Voles, Lemmings, and Allies · Cricetidae
Genus	Meadow Voles · Microtus

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
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