Findings of little known insectivore species (Lipotyphla) in Belarus: critical analysis and issues of diagnosis

Abstract

The article analyses the findings of two species of shrews in the 21st century in the ter-ritory of Belarus. Attention is drawn to the need for a wider use of Barber´s traps and expansion of the analysis of pellets of birds of prey. Crocidura suaveolens was caught in a number of areas of the Gomel and Brest Oblasts. It is assumed that the area of distribution of the species covers the entire Belarusian Polesie. The complex of interconnected lakes Borkovshchina–Dolzhino in the Ushachi Raion of Vitebsk Ob-last is of particular interest for findings of a number of shrews.