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Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus

Identification features

English Nature/Debbie Worland

Rabbits are herbivores eating grass, root vegetables and crops. They can be found in the wider countryside anywhere they can burrow, especially adjacent to food sources. They are normally nocturnal but will come out in daylight if they are disturbed or on long summer days.

Other identification clues

Burrows

Rabbits make their burrows in most substrates so long as there is deep enough soil levels. Burrows often have very short grass near them where the rabbits have grazed the grass. They often have rabbit droppings (see below) near them or in the entrance.

Droppings

Being herbivores, rabbits produce lots of droppings. They are yellow-brown or green in colour and are small and round almost perfectly sphere shaped about 10mm in diametre. They are often found in piles ocassionally singulary. They smell sweet.

Distribution in Derbyshire information