Florida’s eastern woodrat records span three named sites: Osceola National Forest near the Georgia border, Myakka River State Park on the central Gulf coast, and Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge on the Atlantic side. Each logged a single record, but together they don’t favor one region over another.
May stands out clearly in the monthly counts, more than double every other month’s total. Numbers stay moderate through spring and early summer, then taper off through fall and winter, with October through December the quietest stretch.
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