Characteristics
Family: Soricidae
Spanish: Musaraña bicolor
French: Musaraigne carrelet
English: Common shrew
Medium-sized shrew, with a general dark brown colour on the dorsal area and greyish on the ventral area. Opportunistic predator that feeds mainly on terrestrial and edaphic invertebrates. It has a relatively continuous distribution throughout the Catalan Pyrenees, penetrating through the humid eastern region up to Montseny, where the southernmost Iberian population is found. Generalist species of Central European environmental requirements, which frequents all types of environments (forest and open). The reproductive period extends between spring and summer. Rare species, it does not exceed 2% of the catches of the SEMICE project. Uncertain population trend (-9% rate of change in the period 2008-2022).
Station | City | Elevation | Captures |
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Avetosa de Passavets- Montseny | Fogars de Montclús (Mosqueroles) | 1442 | 24 |
Matollar de ginebró - Montseny | Fogars de Montclús (Mosqueroles) | 1534 | 2 |
Bosc negre de la Mata de Son - Planes de Son | Alt àneu (València d'àneu) | 1574 | 23 |
Cabana Vella de les Cabanyeres | Alt àneu (València d'àneu) | 1774 | 17 |
Avetosa d'Arinsal | la Massana | 1759 | 2 |
Coll d'Ordino | Canillo | 1957 | 13 |
Pineda pi roig - Andorra | Escaldes-Engordany | 1523 | 21 |
Tartera Pas de la Casa - Andorra | Encamp | 2281 | 16 |
Els Cortals d'Encamp - Andorra | Encamp | 1725 | 1 |
Prat de dall vall d'Incles - Andorra | Canillo | 1810 | 2 |
Tartera de Rialb | Ordino | 1824 | 6 |
L'Orri | Rialp | 1751 | 4 |
Lo Calbo | la Guingueta d'àneu | 2066 | 19 |
Prats de Piero | Alt àneu (València d'àneu) | 1540 | 1 |
Toirigo | la Vall de Boí (Barruera) | 1515 | 1 |
El Serrat | Ordino | 1614 | 6 |
Comís Vell | Ordino | 1899 | 1 |
Sorteny | Ordino | 1921 | 9 |
Tartera dels Orris | Bagà | 1944 | 3 |
Cireres | Alt àneu (València d'àneu) | 1789 | 1 |
Bosc de la Capella | Espot | 1809 | 4 |
Tartera de Fontalba | Queralbs | 2042 | 6 |
Comis Vell II | Ordino | 1878 | 6 |
Sorteny II | Ordino | 1941 | 10 |
Tristaina II | Ordino | 2281 | 1 |
Total captures | 199 |