Salt Marsh Harvest Mice
The salt marsh harvest mice numbers are decreasing!
About the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse
Food
- Salt
- Seeds
- Plants
- Pickle weed
- Glasswort
- Vegetation cover
- Salt marshes
- Lives near salt
- USA
- Hawk
- Snake
- Owls
- Shore birds
- Domestic cats
- Larger mammals
- Humans
- 8-12 months
- 8 is normal
- Napa Sonoma Marsh
- Shollenberger Park
- Sausanto
- San Ratael
- Alviso
- Palo Alto baylands
- Weight of a nickle
- Can drink salt water
- Some prefer salt water over fresh
- Nocturnal
- Fur blends in with surroundings
- Ears
- Dark brown fur and tawny belly
- Tail has two colors
- Height: 1.5-2.1 cm
- Weight: 10-20 grams
- Humans destroy marshes
- Only give birth to 4 mice a year
- Average lives up to 8 months
- Don Edward Marsh help these mice
Pickleweed
The main food source of the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse
Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse
Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse
This is a Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse on the stem of a pickle weed.
Bibliography
Works Cited
"Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 May 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Marsh_Harvest_Mouse>.
"Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse, Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge." U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 May 2012. <http://www.fws.gov/desfbay/Archives/Salty/salty.htm>.
"wetland - National Geographic Education." Teachers Homepage - National Geographic Education. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 May 2012. <http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/wetland/?ar_a=1>.
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"Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 May 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Marsh_Harvest_Mouse>.
"Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse, Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge." U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 May 2012. <http://www.fws.gov/desfbay/Archives/Salty/salty.htm>.
"wetland - National Geographic Education." Teachers Homepage - National Geographic Education. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 May 2012. <http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/wetland/?ar_a=1>.
MLA formatting by BibMe.org.