Southern red-backed vole
Mammal - Clethrionomys gapperi
The southern red-backed vole or Gapper's red-backed vole is a small slender vole found in Canada and the northern United States. It is closely related to the western red-backed vole, which lives to the south and west of its range and which is less red with a less sharply bicolored tail.
These voles have short slender bodies with a reddish band along the back and a short tail. The sides of the body and head are grey and the underparts are paler. There is a grey color morph in the northeast part of their range. They are 12–16.5 cm long with a 4 cm tail and weigh about 6–42 g; average 20.6 g.
Main Photo Credit: "Southern red-backed vole (Clethrionomys gapperi), British Columbia, Canada" by Robyn Worcester, 2026. CC BY-NC 2.0. Description: Wikipedia
