Common Name
Northern Red-backed Vole
Order
Rodentia
Family
Cricetidae
Species Name
Myodes rutilus
Status
Lower Risk
States
Alaska
Distribution
Holarctic - in Old World, from N Scandinavia east to Chukotski Peninsula, and south to N Kazakhstan, Transbailkalia, Mongolia, N China, extreme N Korean Peninsula; St Lawrence Island, Bering Sea; In New World, from Alaska east to Hudson Bay, and south to
Notes
Active by day or night. Eats mainly leaves in tundra regions, also takes fungi, fruit, seeds and berries in northern forests. Habitat is tundra and northern boreal forest.