The Creeping Vole is a subterranean vole of Pacific Northwest forests, with very small eyes and reduced ears suited for its fossorial lifestyle. It spends much of its time in shallow burrows just beneath the forest floor, rarely using surface runways. This vole has the smallest eyes of any North American vole and is an important prey species for Pacific Coast owls and weasels.
Habitat
Pacific Coast conifer forests with dense understory
Diet
Roots, fungi, bark, and forest floor litter
How common
Common
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