Eastern gray squirrels are more a Piney Woods and East Texas species than a coastal one, so the named refuges attached to this record, Aransas, Padre Island, and Brazoria, mark wooded edges and mature-tree pockets within those coastal reserves rather than open beach or marsh, the closest thing to core squirrel habitat the reference set offers.
Records surge into an April peak nearly four times the August low, one of the sharpest spring swings among Texas’s common mammals, likely tracking a burst of movement as young squirrels disperse from spring litters. With over 8,400 records, this is a well-documented species statewide, and NatureServe rates it secure across both Texas and its full eastern range, distinct from the more open-country fox squirrel that dominates much of the rest of the state’s squirrel record.
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