Endangered Animals of Florida Series: Choctawhatce LbNA #50317 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Sep 9, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Santa Rosa Beach |
| County: | Walton |
| State: | Florida |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Moo Poo  |
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| Found by: | Not yet found! |
| Last found: | N/A |
| Status: | aa |
| Last edited: | Sep 9, 2009 |
ENDANGERED ANIMALS OF FLORIDA SERIES: CHOCTAWHATCHEE BEACH MOUSE Letterbox
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Created by: Moo Poo
Placed by: Moo Poo, The Real Truth, and Where the Wind Blows
Difficulty: Easy/ Drive-By
Stamp: Hand-carved
Choctawhatchee Beach Mouse (Peromyscus polionotus allophrys)
These small, light-colored mice burrow and excavate nests within dune sand among sea oats, grasses, herbs and small shrubs. The beach mouse's diet consists mostly of the seeds and fruits of plants that grow among the dunes, including parts of sea oats, bluestem, dune spurge, evening primrose, oaks, magnolias and youpon hollies. Their diet frequently includes invertebrates such as beetles. Choctawhatchee beach mice are nocturnal and active at night - and are rarely, if ever, seen by beach visitors.
Unlike the house mouse, beach mice are not known to live in buildings or frequent garbage sites.
Critical habitat is designated along 12.6 miles of coast in Walton and Bay Counties, including Grayton Beach State Recreation Area and Topsail Hill Preserve in Walton County, Shell Island and the mainland section of St. Andrew State Recreation Area in Bay County.
Like many small mammals, the Choctawhatchee beach mouse is an important component of a complex food web. The Choctawhatchee beach mouse and its relatives have survived thousands of years since barrier islands were formed. The continued existence and recovery of the Choctawhatchee beach mouse depends largely on the conservation of a healthy dunes ecosystem.
***MISSING***
Created by: Moo Poo
Placed by: Moo Poo, The Real Truth, and Where the Wind Blows
Difficulty: Easy/ Drive-By
Stamp: Hand-carved
Choctawhatchee Beach Mouse (Peromyscus polionotus allophrys)
These small, light-colored mice burrow and excavate nests within dune sand among sea oats, grasses, herbs and small shrubs. The beach mouse's diet consists mostly of the seeds and fruits of plants that grow among the dunes, including parts of sea oats, bluestem, dune spurge, evening primrose, oaks, magnolias and youpon hollies. Their diet frequently includes invertebrates such as beetles. Choctawhatchee beach mice are nocturnal and active at night - and are rarely, if ever, seen by beach visitors.
Unlike the house mouse, beach mice are not known to live in buildings or frequent garbage sites.
Critical habitat is designated along 12.6 miles of coast in Walton and Bay Counties, including Grayton Beach State Recreation Area and Topsail Hill Preserve in Walton County, Shell Island and the mainland section of St. Andrew State Recreation Area in Bay County.
Like many small mammals, the Choctawhatchee beach mouse is an important component of a complex food web. The Choctawhatchee beach mouse and its relatives have survived thousands of years since barrier islands were formed. The continued existence and recovery of the Choctawhatchee beach mouse depends largely on the conservation of a healthy dunes ecosystem.