Northern Birch Mouse

Northern Birch Mouse
Sicista betulina
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Dipodidae
Genus:	Sicista
Species:	S. betulina
Binomial name
Sicista betulina Pallas, 1779

The Northern Birch Mouse (Sicista betulina) is a small rodent about 5 to 8 cm long (without the tail), weighing 4.5 to 13 g. It lives in Siberia in forest and marsh zones.

It hibernates in underground burrows. It eats shoots, grains, berries, and sometimes insects.

References

1. ^ Meinig, H., Zagorodnyuk, I., Henttonen, H., Zima, J. & Coroiu, I. (2008). Sicista betulina. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 17 March 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern

• Holden, M. E. and G. G. Musser. 2005. Family Dipodidae. Pp. 871-893 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.