Northern birch mouse
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The northern birch mouse (Sicista betulina) is a small rodent about 5 to 8 cm long (without the tail), weighing 5 to 13 g. It lives in northern Europe and Asia in forest and marsh zones.[2]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sminthidae |
Genus: | Sicista |
Species: | S. betulina |
Binomial name | |
Sicista betulina (Pallas, 1779) | |
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It hibernates in burrows. It eats shoots, grains, berries, and sometimes insects.