New Mexico’s canyon mouse record rests entirely on GBIF specimen data: none of the state’s 128 records come from iNaturalist, and there’s no confirmed recent sighting date. That fits an animal that’s easy to confuse with several similar gray-brown mice, including the western deer mouse and brush mouse, so photographed sightings may simply go unidentified.
Bosque del Apache and Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuges anchor the named locations, both wetter reference points bordering the rocky desert and canyon country the species actually favors.
Monthly counts run from a January high down to zero in February and September, but with so few total records, that swing likely reflects when a handful of surveys happened to run rather than a real seasonal shift. NatureServe rates the canyon mouse S3, Vulnerable, in New Mexico, at the eastern edge of its range.
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