Common Name
Masked Shrew
Order
Eulipotyphla
Family
Soricidae
Species Name
Sorex cinereus
Status
Least concern
States
Alaska
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Iowa
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Maryland
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
North Carolina
North Dakota
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Virginia
Vermont
Washington
Wisconsin
West Virginia
Wyoming
Distribution
Throughout Alaska, south through most of Washington, Idaho, central Utah and Colorado into north central New Mexico, east through most of Wyoming and Nebraska, Iowa, northern Illinois, and most of Indiana and Ohio, and south throught the Appalachian Mount
Notes
This species ranges into eastern Siberia. Active day and night. Likes moist areas in fields, brushlands and forests.