Squirrels, badgers, dormice, and larger animals such as deer are greedy for it. |
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It's precious for wildlife too, sheltering dormice, water voles, bats, and innumerable birds including barn owls. |
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Exposure of male edible dormice all year round to an unvarying photoperiod and warm temperature disrupted their biological cycles. |
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And come to think of it most of the victims I have seen being carried home as trophies by cats have been birds, dormice and voles. |
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Suburban householders report large numbers of hedgehogs, voles, shrews, dormice and hares. |
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Foxes, rabbits, harvest mice, house mice, dormice, shrews, weasels, and voles all depend on the hedgerows as a place to breed, hunt or shelter. |
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To this day, wild edible dormice are consumed in Slovenia, where they are considered a rare delicacy and dormouse trapping an ethnic tradition. |
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The development, he maintains, would also threaten the presence of wildlife including yellowhammers, badgers and dormice. |
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Rabbits are running rampant, dormice numbers are dwindling and otters are on the increase. |
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Their diet consists of fruit, nuts, insects, spiders, bird eggs and nestlings, and small rodents even other dormice. |
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After a good autumn feed-up, snails, bats, butterflies, snakes, ladybirds, dormice and others find somewhere they hope will remain undisturbed and usually dry. |
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In the fall of 1998, the trees were cut down while the dormice hibernated. |
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In the undergrowth Bobcat and fox hunting dormice and mice live Quercini, but are rare porcupines and other small mammals. |
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Foxes and pine martins are also common here. Shrews and dormice are the characteristic inhabitants of the rocks. |
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The fauna is very rich, including lynx, mongooses, wild boars, storks, eagles, herons, rabbits, chameleons and dormice. |
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Despite what the volcano still live porcupines, fox, wild cat, marten, rabbit, hare and among the smaller animals, weasels, hedgehogs, dormice, the dormouse and several species of mice, bat and snake. |
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Pairs of giant famille rose soldier vases, 135 cm tall, occupy centre stage, while stage left are two tureens, 11 cm high and modelled as dormice. |
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But if the deer are reckoned to be a problem they threaten woodland and habitats for dormice, voles and nightingales dealing with them could be profitable. |
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As well as dormice, the PS945,000 project will look at the spread of red squirrel, otter, pine marten, polecat, harvest mice and bats. |
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Ultrasonic calls play a part in social communication between dormice and are used when the individuals are out of sight of each other. |
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The odor would thus push back dormice and mice. |
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You might spot skylarks, meadow pipits, linnets, song thrushes, and grey partridges in the limestone grassland, but you'll have to be eagle-eyed to spot the dormice, water voles and stoats that reside here. |
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The dormice are distinguished from the campagnols by the superior softness of the fur, and the greater length of the tail. |
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In Western Europe, the wildcat feeds on hamsters, brown rats, dormice, water voles, voles, and wood mice. |
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One of the most notable characteristics of those dormice that live in temperate zones is hibernation. |
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During the Pleistocene, giant dormice the size of large rats, such as Leithia melitensis, lived on the islands of Malta and Sicily. |
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Habitat destruction has led to a population decrease in the number of dormice and bank voles found in Britain. |
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Habitat destruction has led to a decrease in the population of dormice and bank voles found in Britain. |
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The Romans used a special kind of enclosure, a glirarium, to raise dormice for the table. |
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The sleepy behaviour of the dormouse character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland reflects this familiar trait of dormice. |
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The saddle might be decorated with dormice, lilies, bats or dragons, and the detachable bowl, made of stone or porcelain, in which opium was evaporated, was shaped to resemble crabs, shells or poppy heads. |
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Beetles and butterflies, sand lizards and dormice, bluebells and orchids, are just a sample of the flora and fauna that have benefited from the scheme. |
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