| Taxa: |
| Order: |
| Family: |
| Mammalia |
| Rodentia |
| Muridae |
| NatureServe Global Rank: |
| NatureServe State (NC) Rank: |
| G5 |
| SE |
| Federal Status: |
| NC State Status: |
| --- |
| --- |
| Land Unit |
| US Fish & Wildlife Service |
| US Forest Service |
| US National Park Service |
| US Department of Defense |
| NC State Parks |
| NC University System |
| NC Wildlife Res. Com. |
| NC Forest Service |
| NC Div. of Coastal Mgmt. |
| Local Governments |
| Non-Governmental Org. |
| Other Public Lands |
| Private Lands |
| GAP Status 1-2 |
| All Protected Lands |
| Statewide |
| Hectares |
| 7,071.84 |
| 12,951.54 |
| 15,838.02 |
| 7,382.16 |
| 2,033.64 |
| 1,216.62 |
| 4,961.61 |
| 976.65 |
| 318.42 |
| 670.50 |
| 1,696.14 |
| 2,462.85 |
| 3,936,950.37 |
| 19,141.80 |
| 56,208.03 |
| 3,994,530.36 |
| Acres |
| 17,474.89 |
| 32,003.95 |
| 39,136.59 |
| 18,241.71 |
| 5,025.23 |
| 3,006.33 |
| 12,260.40 |
| 2,689.87 |
| 786.83 |
| 1,656.84 |
| 4,191.25 |
| 6,085.83 |
| 9,728,414.33 |
| 47,576.92 |
| 139,169.55 |
| 9,870,974.07 |
| % of Dist. on |
| Prot. Lands |
| 12.6 % |
| 23.0 % |
| 28.0 % |
| 13.1 % |
| 3.6 % |
| 2.2 % |
| 7.9 % |
| 1.7 % |
| 0.6 % |
| 2.8 % |
| 2.8 % |
| 3.3 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| 34.1 % |
| ----- |
| ----- |
| % of Dist. on |
| All Lands |
| 0.2 % |
| 0.3 % |
| 0.4 % |
| 0.2 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| 0.1 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| 98.6 % |
| 0.5 % |
| ----- |
| ----- |
|
The house mouse was introduced from Europe and is now well established through much of North America (Lee et al. 1982). The house mouse is a common resident of homes and buildings, but can also be abundant in bean and grain fields (Whitaker and Hamilton 1998). Any man-made structure that is not airtight and that has an accessible food source is suitable habitat for this mouse. In field situations, the mouse establishes its burrow in fallow fields or along the grassy buffer around cultivated fields (e.g., fence lines and rite-of-ways). It will also occupy grassy sand dunes along the coast (Webster et al. 1985). Nests in small chambers in any secluded location within buildings or in ground burrows (Webster et al. 1985, Whitaker and Hamilton 1998) NATURE SERVE GLOBAL HABITAT COMMENTS: Occupies buildings/other structures, as well as natural habitats such as fields, cropland, and (in Hawaii) low elevation forests, beaches, sometimes high elevation forest and scrub (Tomich 1986, Sugihara 1997). In some areas, movement into buildings coincides with the onset of cold weather in late fall. Young are born in a nest that may be communally constructed in a well-concealed site. |
| Code | Name | Description | NC Natural Heritage Program Equivalent |
| 371 | Maritime Grasslands | Dune grass community consisting of sea oats and beach grasses. | Dune grass, Maritime dry grassland |
| 180 | Agricultural Crop Fields | Farm fields used for row crops. | No equivalent |
| 205 | Agricultural Pasture/Hay and Natural Herbaceous | Farm fields used for pasture grass or hay production, as well as old fields dominated by native and exotic grasses. | No equivalent |
| 202 | Residential Urban | Includes vegetation interspersed in residential areas. Includes lawns, mixed species woodlots, and horticultural shrubs. Vegetation accounts for between 20 - 70% of the cover. | No equivalent |
| 203 | Urban Low-Intensity Developed | Highly developed areas with vegetation accounting for < 20% of the cover. | No equivalent |
| 204 | Urban High-Intensity Developed and Transportation Corridors | Highly developed areas including infrastructure such as roads, railroads. Vegetation represents < 20% of the cover. | No equivalent |
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Raleigh, NC 27695-7617
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