meadow voles are seldom numerous in the places where short- tailed shrews are common. Meadow voles construct surface runways and underground tunnels that may honeycomb an area. They build roughly ...

Sometimes confused for moles and voles, shrews are smaller, have a very pointed snout, brown or gray fur, and their ears are flattened against their head. "These small animals are not rodents ...

Voles are also known as meadow mice, field mice and ground moles. They are not a mole, nor a mouse, nor a shrew. I don’t think I have ever seen a shrew, so I looked it up. Shrews use the tunnels ...