Common Name
North American Deermouse
Order
Rodentia
Family
Cricetidae
Species Name
Peromyscus maniculatus
Status
Lower Risk (nt) as P. m. anacapae and P. m. clemintis, otherwise Lower Risk (lc)
States
Alaska
Alabama
Arkansas
Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Georgia
Iowa
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Maryland
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
North Carolina
North Dakota
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
Nevada
New York
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Vermont
Washington
Wisconsin
West Virginia
Wyoming
Distribution
Panhandle of Alaska and across N Canada, south through most of continental USA, excluding the SE and E seaboard, to southernmost Baja California Sur and to NC Oaxaca, Mexico; including many land bridge islands
Notes
Woodland forms climb very well and are semi-arboreal. Feeds on seeds, fruit, insects, subterranean fungi and other foods; stores excess in caches. Occupies almost every habitat type, from boreal forest and tundra to desert, prairies, swamps and high mount
Georgia
Nocturnal
Illinois
Occur in prairie or grassland habitat in Illinois
Ohio
Grassland species in Ohio.