Cotton mice carry a NatureServe S5 secure rank in Arkansas, but the state has only 13 records since 2000, and 12 of them come through GBIF while just 3 are iNaturalist observations, so trapping surveys, not casual photographs, account for most of what’s documented for this Peromyscus mouse.
January alone holds 10 of the 13 records, and Little River County in the far southwest holds 10 as well, a clustering that likely reflects concentrated trapping effort rather than any real seasonal shift in the mouse’s own activity.
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