The Western Red-backed Vole inhabits the humid coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest and is closely associated with large rotting logs and fallen trees that serve as travel corridors and feeding platforms. It has a distinctive chestnut dorsal stripe over a grayish body. Its diet is unusually heavy in truffles—underground fungi—making it an important disperser of hypogeous fungal spores.
Habitat
Old-growth and mature Pacific Coast forests
Diet
Truffles, fungi, lichens, berries, and seeds
How common
Uncommon
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