Eastern woodrats carry a NatureServe S4 apparently secure rank in Louisiana, and the record leans almost entirely on GBIF (275 of 277 records), meaning trapping surveys, not casual sightings, document nearly everything known about this stick-nest-building rodent here.
February alone accounts for 47 of the year’s monthly-tallied records, the largest single-month share, with a broader winter-into-fall pattern (January, February, October, and November together carrying more than half the total) that likely tracks when survey teams were most active rather than any dramatic real seasonal shift in the woodrat’s own behavior, since this species doesn’t hibernate.
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