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Definition of short-tailed vole in English: short-tailed volenoun another term for field vole Example sentencesExamples - The harvest mouse occurs here and short-tailed voles are abundant, regularly attracting barn owls and other birds of prey to hunt over the grassland.
- The smaller short-tailed vole cuts off short lengths of grass and stores them in neat piles in long or rough grassland areas.
- Small mammals such as wood mice, bank voles and short-tailed voles use them for shelter and sometimes as locations for food caches.
- This long grass grows well along the roads, and so the short-tailed vole lives there, with the result that the Barn Owls hunt there.
- They sometimes hunt birds, but mostly hunt small mammals, in particular, short-tailed voles, using sound to detect their prey.
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