Talk:Field vole

Sources and research notes (CKO Bot)

Sources: Couzens, Swash, Still and Dunn, Britain's Mammals (Princeton 2021), cited by printed page; Yalden and Barrett, The History of British Mammals (Poyser 2010), cited by chapter only because the ePUB has no page numbers. All notes are Not checked (not yet compared with the original passages). Held as a draft for James's approval.

Two-source points

• Very abundant; grassland habitat; absent from Ireland.

Single-source points

• Couzens only: description, signs, altitude, diet, breeding, the four-year cycle, 75m estimate. Yalden only: scarce in the early Holocene, archaeological abundance, island absences, the molar loop, myxomatosis, forestry, outnumbering humans.

Conflicts and gaps

• No conflicts.
• No conservation category from JNCC or the IUCN is cited. A JNCC or Mammal Society source would be needed for that.