The wood mouse is sometimes known as the long-tailed field mouse and is widespread; it is probably most common in woodland, rough grassland and gardens. It is mostly nocturnal and an agile climber. Wood mice will gather food stores of berries and seeds in the autumn, which they keep in underground burrows or sometimes in old birds' nests.

Wood mice are omnivores. They eat seeds, fruit and nuts in autumn when they are in abundance, but also catch invertebrates such as earthworms, caterpillars and centipedes. Did you know? They don’t hibernate but can go into torpor during particularly cold winters. How do wood mice breed? The breeding season is between February and October.

The wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) is a murid rodent native to Europe and northwestern Africa. It is closely related to the yellow-necked mouse ( Apodemus flavicollis ) but differs in that it has no band of yellow fur around the neck , has slightly smaller ears, and is usually slightly smaller overall: around 90 mm (3.54 in) in length and 23 ...

We found that, unlike woodlands, fields are less suitable in autumn–winter than in warmer months, being characterized in colder months by a lower number of mice, a lower number of adult and reproductive individuals, lighter individuals, and a higher number of resident mice.

Additional nesting material is used in autumn and winter; often the mouse blocks the entrance to the burrow with leaves, twigs or stones. Individuals will nest communally in the winter but in the spring females usually take up their own home ranges and nest singly. However, home ranges shared by two females have been observed.

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Wood mice eat seeds, green plants, fruits and animal foods. In a mixed deciduous woodland they eat acorns and sycamore seeds for most of the winter, buds in early spring, caterpillars, worms and centipedes in early summer and blackberries and fungi in the autumn. Food is cached in underground burrows.

The Wood Mouse is a species that has adapted to living around humans, often using houses and outbuildings for their nests. The reporting rate graph shows an increase in reporting between the spring and autumn, when Wood Mice are breeding so there are greater numbers and therefore a greater detectability.

Peak of activity at dawn and dusk during autumn and winter. Less active at full moon and during very cold (<4C / 39F)/wet weather. Use a complex system of underground and ‘litterzone’ (i.e. within the leaf litter and deep within long grass) tunnels and above-ground feeding stations.

The crop of autumn woodland seeds and nuts has a direct impact on the survival of wood mice over the winter. Breeding from March to October and occasionally through the winter when food is abundant, they may raise up to 4 litters of 4 to 7 young each year.