| Northern birch mouse | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sminthidae |
| Genus: | Sicista |
| Species: | S. betulina
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| Binomial name | |
| Sicista betulina (Pallas, 1779)
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The northern birch mouse (Sicista betulina) is a small rodent about 5 to 8 cm long (without the tail), weighing 5 to 13 g. It lives in northern Europe and Asia in forest and marsh zones.[2]
It hibernates in burrows. It eats shoots, grains, berries, and sometimes insects.
- ^ Meinig, H.; Zagorodnyuk, I.; Henttonen, H.; Zima, J. & Coroiu, I. (2008). "Sicista betulina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
- ^ Holden, M.E.; Musser, G.G. (2005). "Family Dipodidae". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 887–888. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.