There’s a reason the few photos available of the Sherman’s short-tailed shrew are of dead ones: That may be the only kind left or, they may never have existed at all. If they did, the only place on ...

One of Virginia's most common mammals is the northern short-tailed shrew. You've probably never heard of this animal, and you may never have seen one. Like many small mammals, shrews spend much of ...

I worked as a naturalist at Lowry Nature Center in Carver Park Reserve for about 20 years, and we had a wildlife-feeding setup for the masses. We had about a dozen seed-and-suet feeders placed within ...

After a colder-than-normal November and a mild December, the first half of January has acted like January. With consistent nocturnal readings of subzero, we recorded an average of several degrees ...

There’s a reason the few photos available of the Sherman’s short-tailed shrew are of dead ones: That may be the only kind left or, they may never have existed at all. If they did, the only place on ...

So I’m watching the birds at the feeder, and suddenly a little black animal dashes out of the ivy, grabs a sunflower seed, and hightails it back into cover. A short-tailed shrew! Blarina brevicauda, ...

This grey-black to blackish-brown shrew with a pointed, down-drooping nose averages 147-157 mm (5.8-6.2 in) in length, and is the longest of the Adirondack shrews. It weighs 10-17 g (0.35-0.60 oz), ...

When Jennifer Callaghan started her tenure at the Urban Ecology Center as an intern in 2006, her first assignment was to document shrews living in Riverside Park. The problem: there were no shrews, ...

Thanks to the warmer temperatures and rain at Thanksgiving, much of the snow cover that we had earlier in November had dissipated. (The 44 degrees recorded Nov. 23 tied Nov. 3 for being the warmest ...