Microtus pennsylvanicus has the widest distribution of any North American voles. It ranges from Alaska and the Northwest Territories as far east as Newfoundland, and as far south as Colorado, New Mexico, and Georgia. Disjunct populations occur in Florida and Chihuahua (Mexico). This species inhabits moist, dense grassy areas with abundant plant litter, both natural and man-made (e.g., meadows, riparian shrublands, tallgrass prairies, hayfields, and grassy woodlands). Meadow Voles create a network of surface tunnels and trails through dense vegetation, and feed on grasses and grass seeds, sedges, forbs, tubers, roots, tender tree bark, and, occasionally, fungi, invertebrates and other animal matter. Their pelage is reddish-brown above and grayish on the underparts (in adults); the juveniles are mostly gray.
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(Microtus pennsylvanicus)
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Meadow Vole; imm.
(Microtus pennsylvanicus)
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