AN IRISH VOLE

A news story we published yesterday, includes a reference to a rodent species called "the black vole" living in Ireland. This is a regional name for the European pine vole (Microtus subterraneus)which - as far as we know - doesn't live in Ireland. Presumably the original authors meant the bank vole (Myodes glareolus; formerly Clethrionomys glareolus)which has been introduced to Ireland and is colonising much of the south and southwest.



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