Fox squirrels carry a NatureServe S3 vulnerable rank in New York, and the Niagara River corridor’s 6 logged sightings, an eighth of the state’s 48 total records, anchor what’s genuinely a range-edge population for this species in the state’s far-western corner. The record splits evenly between iNaturalist and GBIF (36 records each).
Records stay thin and scattered across nearly every month, two to six sightings, with no single dominant peak, a pattern consistent with a species that’s active year-round but genuinely uncommon across most of New York outside its Niagara Frontier stronghold.
