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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-8-1028757264 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Might be Sorex palustris, judging from the dimensions and from the silvery underside of body and tail. On 4 Jun 2010, at 4:23 PM, Randy Lauff wrote: > All, > > To me, there are two kinds of shrews...little ones (in the genus > Sorex) and the much bigger, Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina brevicauda). > Up until recently, I have not seen the one in the following two > pictures: > > http://people.stfx.ca/rlauff/photos/maybedispard.jpg > http://people.stfx.ca/rlauff/photos/maybedisparv.jpg > > So of course, I looked up the diversity of mammals in NS and > thought, the Long-tailed (Rock) Shrew is listed as S1 by the > Conservation Data Centre (I forget the exact definition of S1, but > it implies really, really, really rare at the subnational > (provincial) level). So now I'm excited that one of my Saw-whet Owls > caught something rare! > > Then I started looking up some the characteristics of some other > shrews, and well, I don't think I can conclude that the photographed > animal is a Long-tail. > > Can anyone out there provide any more info based on the photos? I > will be isolating the bones (regurgitated by the chicks into the > nest) later this summer, so may be able to narrow it down. > > Randy > _________________________________ > RF Lauff > Way in the boonies of > Antigonish County, NS. --Apple-Mail-8-1028757264 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Might be <i>Sorex = palustris</i>, judging from the dimensions and from the silvery = underside of body and tail.<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 4 Jun = 2010, at 4:23 PM, Randy Lauff wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite">All,<div><br></div><div>To me, there are two kinds of = shrews...little ones (in the genus <i>Sorex</i>) and the much bigger, = Short-tailed Shrew (<i>Blarina brevicauda</i>). Up until recently, I = have not seen the one in the following two pictures:</div> = <div><br></div><div><a = href=3D"http://people.stfx.ca/rlauff/photos/maybedispard.jpg">http://peopl= e.stfx.ca/rlauff/photos/maybedispard.jpg</a></div><div><a = href=3D"http://people.stfx.ca/rlauff/photos/maybedispard.jpg"></a><a = href=3D"http://people.stfx.ca/rlauff/photos/maybedisparv.jpg">http://peopl= e.stfx.ca/rlauff/photos/maybedisparv.jpg</a></div> = <div><br></div><div><a = href=3D"http://people.stfx.ca/rlauff/photos/maybedisparv.jpg"></a>So of = course, I looked up the diversity of mammals in NS and thought, the = Long-tailed (Rock) Shrew is listed as S1 by the Conservation Data Centre = (I forget the exact definition of S1, but it implies really, really, = really rare at the subnational (provincial) level). So now I'm excited = that one of my Saw-whet Owls caught something rare!</div> = <div><br></div><div>Then I started looking up some = the characteristics of some other shrews, and well, I don't = think I can conclude that the photographed animal is a = Long-tail.</div><div><br></div><div>Can anyone out there provide any = more info based on the photos? I will be isolating the bones = (regurgitated by the chicks into the nest) later this summer, so may be = able to narrow it down.</div> = <div><br></div><div>Randy</div><div>_________________________________<br>R= F Lauff<br>Way in the boonies of<br>Antigonish County, NS.<br> = </div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-8-1028757264--
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