Bobcats are solitary, mostly nocturnal hunters, and the short black-tipped tail that gives them their name is often the clearest field mark when one crosses a road at dusk. Kansas records cluster in the wooded river corridors and tallgrass remnants of the eastern prairie-forest transition and the Flint Hills, the kind of brushy, broken cover bobcats favor for stalking rabbits and rodents.
The record split leans slightly toward GBIF, 174 entries against 105 from iNaturalist, suggesting a mix of survey data alongside casual photographs. Sightings happen in every month but peak in May at 13, likely tied to kittens being born and adults moving more to hunt for a growing litter, though it could just as easily reflect when people are outdoors.
With a percentile ranking of 56.3, bobcats report more often than most other tracked Kansas mammals, and NatureServe lists the species as apparently secure (S4) statewide.
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