Every one of New York’s 194 American ermine records comes through GBIF rather than a photograph, meaning trapping and specimen surveys, not casual sightings, document everything known about this weasel in the state. No NatureServe rank appears on file here, and Montezuma and Iroquois national wildlife refuges anchor the Great Lakes plain wetland edges this species favors.
May alone accounts for 26 of the 194 records, the largest single-month share, with September the year’s low point (6 sightings); that spring peak likely tracks the weeks after this year’s kits become mobile enough to be trapped or observed, though a record this survey-heavy says as much about trapping-season timing as about the ermine’s own activity.
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