This small shrew has a long, pointed snout and very small eyes and ears. In Britain it occurs in places with grass, leaf litter, or other ground cover.
Its back is grey-brown, while the underside is grey or whitish. It has a long, pointed snout and very small eyes and ears.
In Lithuania, shrew trapping ran from 1975 through 2023. Researchers combined records from several habitat types and compared both the number of each species and its share of the total catch.
Across the dataset, Eurasian Pygmy Shrew numbers and its proportion of the catch showed no statistically significant overall trend. The long record allowed comparisons across decades.
In agricultural habitats, however, the species appeared less often than expected from the area surveyed. The study compared its long-term trend separately from its representation across habitats.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
Lithuania’s long-term dataset showed no significant overall trend, while Eurasian Pygmy Shrews were recorded less often than expected in agricultural habitats.