Eastern woodrats carry no NatureServe state rank in Nebraska, SNR unranked, and every one of the state’s 20 records appears in GBIF, with half of them also on iNaturalist, so survey work and casual sightings share the job of documenting this pack-rat species. The records follow southern Nebraska’s river bottoms, from Hitchcock, Harlan, and Franklin counties on the Republican River to Gage and Richardson in the southeast, with 3 more from Cherry County in the north.
September alone accounts for 9 of the 20 records, nearly half, with only scattered reports in other months and none in December, a pattern that likely tracks survey timing more than any real winter absence, since eastern woodrats don’t hibernate and cache food for lean months instead.
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