NPSpecies

Present in the park on MDI (Garman 1991)

Whitaker and Hamilton (1998) Native to New England. Native to Maine (Palmer 1937), apparently locally common nearly everywhere in Maine.

Few reliable records on Mount Desert Island (Coman 1987).

Park Species Detail: Garman (1991) trapped 1 individual during extensive trapping in 1987 and 1988 on MDI. Coman (1987, 1981) collected on MDI on 24 August 1934 (M. Branin), collected at Sieur de Monts Spring on 9 May 1936 (M. Sullivan), specimen found on Bay View Drive during July 1971 (C. Jellison), and 2 caught in mixed woods near Hadley's Beach in July 1972. Species hibernates in Maine. Packie and Nadeau (1975): Present in the park on MDI at Hadlock Pond; 1 lactating female trapped and released here. Calhoun (1951) trapped on MDI during 1950, exact locations unknown. Manville (1942): only 2 specimens recorded from Mount Desert Island; one specimen taken at Sieur de Monts Spring on 9 May 1939 (M. Sullivan), and another specimen taken east of Champlain Mountain on 24 August 1934 (M. Branin); also an adult and 9 young were unearthed from a nest near a small creek in dense woodland south of The Tarn on 7 September 1934 (V. Lunt). Branin (1939): A brood of 6 immature mice were observed; less common than Meadow Jumping Mouse on MDI; captured alive along a small woodland creek about 1 mile south of The Tarn (V. Lunt), and a specimen was trapped at the woods-meadow station east of Champlain Mountain. Branin (1936): adult male was collected on 24 August 1934 at the edge of a mixed woods of oak, maple, birch, and aspen, and at a point where this merges with the grassy tundra east of Champlain Mountain., Park Species Data Source: Garman (1991); Coman (1987, 1981); Packie and Nadeau (1975); Manville (1942); Branin (1939); Branin (1936)