Sentence examples for water vole from inspiring English sources

In 2001, nearly 350 water vole were recorded on the Chess.

Candidates include the water vole, highland wildcat, fox, bottlenose dolphin, red squirrel and soprano pipistrelle bat.

It can disturb wildlife, including rare creatures, such as the water vole.

Little human creatures will no doubt find the adventure playground with its water vole tunnels a highlight.

Cameron said the EA was worried that some of the habitat of the water vole might have been destroyed.

The water vole, often confused with brown rats (Ratty of The Wind in the Willows was actually a water vole), is now one of the nation's fastest disappearing mammals.

Immortalised as Ratty in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, the water vole is Britain's fastest-declining mammal.

A water vole prior to release on the Holnicote Estate, Somerset, where the mammals have been extinct for 30 years.

But there is one thing missing from this bucolic scene: the telltale swish of the reeds or sudden liquid plop that betrays a water vole.

I tried to fend them off, but they were stronger than me – after the last few days a geriatric water vole could probably have taken me down.

Water vole populations are very difficult to estimate, but Tansley said the natural population of tens of millions had now almost certainly dropped below one million.