St Kilda field mouse

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St Kilda field mouse (plural St Kilda field mice)

  1. A subspecies of wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus hirtensis, endemic to the Hebridean island of St Kilda.
    • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 54:
      The St Kilda field mice that live on that isolated Hebridean island, introduced by hitchhiking on Viking longships only about a thousand years ago, are already much heavier than those on the mainland.
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