Wood Mouse
Apodemus sylvaticus
Wildlife Explorer collectible · Wood Mouse
🐭 Discover the Wood Mouse
The wood mouse lives in forests, hedgerows, field margins, parks, and gardens — anywhere with sufficient cover.
🔎 At a glance
- Animal group: Mammal
- Region: Europe
- Conservation status: Least Concern (LC)
- Diet: seeds, fruits, and small invertebrates
🌿 Where does it live?
The wood mouse is one of Europe's most common mammals and thrives in almost any landscape with cover: from forest edges to gardens and hedges.
🌰 What does it eat?
Seeds, nuts, and berries form the bulk of its diet, supplemented by insects and other small invertebrates.
🌙 How it lives
Mainly active at night, and an excellent jumper and climber. Wood mice dig underground burrow systems and store food for the winter.
✨ Special features of this animal
Relatively large eyes and ears make the wood mouse alert to danger, and it is an essential link in the food chain for owls, foxes, and birds of prey.
💡 Did you know?
- A wood mouse can jump up to 75 centimeters.
- It stores food for the winter.
- It is one of Europe's most common mammals.
- Wood mice are important food for owls, foxes, and birds of prey.
🌿 Threats & protection
The species is not globally threatened. A varied landscape with natural ground cover, hedges, and field margins helps small mammals like the wood mouse.
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