'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a....snoremouse! 😴🎄 🔊SOUND ON to hear the cutest little snores from this sleeping dormouse! Note: This video is from a dormouse surveyor with a licence to handle the animals for the National Dormouse Monitoring Programme, which aids their conservation. As a protected species, only trained and licensed individuals can handle or check them. #Wildlife #Nature #Conservation #Dormouse | Devon Wildlife

Can you help protect hazel dormice? Please consider sponsoring a nest box to support our work returning dormice to woodlands in areas where they've become locally extinct. When you make a donation, you'll receive a free dormouse booklet, exclusive photos and a House a Dormouse certificate (available by post or digitally). 🎥 Lorna Griffiths | People's Trust for Endangered Species

Come with us on a dormouse survey! Conservation officer Laura spent autumn checking boxes put up on our nature reserves to monitor dormouse populations. As a licenced surveyor, Laura checks for the presence of dormice and their nests. When they’re found, they are sexed and weighed and this data is input into the National Dormouse Monitoring Programme. Sometimes other residents have made their homes in the boxes, like the woodmouse in the clip. Why do we do these surveys? Dormice populations have

Napping like a dormouse in the breeze 🌝🍄 Our friend Nate Moss (instagram.com/nate_moss) went looking for butterflies in Kent, England, and found a dormouse instead!! There are 29 different dormouse species across Europe, Africa, and Asia, and the species native to England is the Hazel Dormouse. Dormice are known for their love of sleep—as nocturnal omnivores, they sleep most of the day and eat flowers, berries, fruits, and sometimes bugs at night. They also hibernate for six or more months out