The European rabbit is a different species entirely from Ohio’s native eastern cottontail, and it has no established wild population in the state. Any of the 9 sparse records gathered since 2000 almost certainly trace back to escaped or released domestic and feral stock, not a self-sustaining wild rabbit population like the ones found across much of Europe and Australia.
Records are too few and scattered, spread thin from March through November, to say anything meaningful about seasonal timing. Ohio hasn’t assigned the species a NatureServe rank, since it isn’t tracked as part of the state’s native wildlife.
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