Category: Mammal

Family (birds only):

Species: Clethrionmys gapperi

Habitat: forest

Seasonality (birds only): Resident

Basic Information Links:
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/education/wns/voles.pdf

 There seem to be more voles this year, 2011.

Red-Backed voles eat a wide variety of foods including grass, seeds, fruit, lichens, fungi, insects and meat.  They are the bottom of the food chain and are eaten by weasels, marten, foxes, coyotes, owls, most hawks, inland breeding gulls, jaegers, great blue herons, domestic cats, northern pike and other voles.