Rodent Match and Habitat

Norway Rat

Rattus norvegicus

Human-made-structures

Black Rat

Rattus rattus

House Mouse

Mus musculus

Xeric upland grassland

Meadow Jumping Mouse

Zapus hudsonius

Weedy grasslands

Woodland Jumping Mouse

Napaeozapus insignis

mesic woodlands

Praire Vole

Microtus ochrogaster

grasses, forbs, and short woody shrubs

Meadow Vole

Microtus pennsylvanicus

Grasses and sedges

Woodland Vole

Microtus pinetorum

mature deciduous forest

Southern Red-backed Vole

Myodes gapperi

mature deciduous forest

Southern Bog Lemming

Synaptomys cooperi

grasses and sedges

grasses, forbs, and short woody shrubs

Muskrat

Ondatra zibethicus

open wetlands

Cotton Rat

Sigmodon hispidus

Weedy

Rice Rat

Oryzomys palustris

open wetlands

Cotton Mouse

Peromyscus gossypinus

mesic woodlands

White-footed Mouse

Peromyscus leucopus

mesic woodlands

Deer Mouse

Peromyscus maniculatus

xeric upland grasslands

Eastern Harvest Mouse

Reithrodontomys humulis

xeric upland grasslands

Golden Mouse

Ochrotomys nuttalli

shrubby woodland

Allegheny Woodrat

Neotoma magister

Cliffs