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Harvest Mouse

Micromys minutus

1,917Records since 2000
NovemberPeak month
51Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan186
Feb167
Mar112
Apr24
May12
Jun11
Jul11
Aug27
Sep74
Oct382
Nov572
Dec304

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England120
2Surrey England77
3Somerset England65
4Bracknell Forest England62
5Kent England61
6Worcestershire England60
7Northamptonshire England48
8Wirral England32
9Monmouthshire Wales29
10Sefton England28
11Telford and Wrekin England27
12Cambridgeshire England26
13Herefordshire, County of England22
14Peterborough England20
15North Yorkshire England13
1,841 England9 Scotland66 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 51 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,917
Peak month
November
Counties with records
51
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Micromys minutus
Group
Mammals
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,908
Conservation designations
Biodiversity List – England, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Biodiversity List – Wales, UK BAP priority species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Rodentia
Family
Muridae
Genus
Micromys
Name with authority
Micromys minutus (Pallas, 1771)
Described
1771
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q209516 · GBIF 5219833