Wetlands: Mammals

Muskrat

The muskrat is a large rat-like animal with dark brown hair and a tail that is flattened sideways and as long as its body. These animals build a mounded push-up of vegetation with a nest in the centre, often in cattails and sometimes within a beaver lodge. They feed on sedges, pond weeds, cattail roots and fish or molluscs when available.

Meadow vole

This is a grizzled grey or brown field mouse that lives in areas of lush vegetation usually near water, where they feed on sedges, grasses and weeds. Complex systems of runways go both underground and into the water. A Distribution of these animals is limited. A subspecies is found only in the Similkameen, South Okanagan, and east along the provincial border to the Yahk area.

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Here are some representative species in wetlands:

Beaver
California Myotis
Fringed Myotis
Meadow Vole
Red Fox
River Otter
Red:
Western Red Bat

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