Cotton mice carry a NatureServe S5 secure rank in Arkansas, and every one of the state’s 73 records comes through GBIF, with only 3 also appearing on iNaturalist, meaning trapping surveys, not casual photographs, built essentially the entire dataset for this common Peromyscus mouse.
January through April together account for 56 of the 73 records, more than three-quarters of the total, with June and September showing zero records; that steep swing likely tracks the timing of concentrated winter and spring trapping surveys rather than any real seasonal shift in the mouse’s own activity.
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