Live Trapping Small Mammals: A Practical GuideTrapping small mammals is as much an art as a science. It relies on individual animals finding, exploring and entering traps set by the field worker, and activating the trap door tripping mechanism. This book provides practical advice on trapping small mammals. |
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Additional Information Advice for field aluminium Apodemus Appendix bait Bank vole blowfly body weight boundary strip method breeding adult canes carried Common shrew cover density door catch ears English Nature estimates female field vole field workers Flowerdew fur clip grass grassland habitats handling animals head and body hinge hole individual juveniles/subadults lactating large numbers Leptospirosis licence live trapping Longworth trap Lyme Disease males Mammal recording Mammal Society's website Micromys monitoring movement nest box non-breeding number of captures number of traps patterns of traps pelage polythene position prebait catch pygmy shrews range length recommended Risk Assessment rodents Sherman trap Sorex species spring wire study area tail tick total adults juvenile trap door trap lines trap points trap round trap tunnel trapped animal trapping grid trapping methods trapping periods Trapping shrews Trapping small mammals treadle tripping weight vegetation water voles weather wood mouse Yellow-necked mouse