Ocala National Forest is the only named site in Florida’s golden mouse records, though the species’ real range reaches across the state’s sandhills and pine scrub well beyond that one forest. With just a single mapped location, the record set traces where observers have gone more than where the mouse itself is limited to.
Florida’s reports jump sharply in March, the year’s clear high point, with a second, smaller rise in July. Neither spike proves when golden mice are most active, since detection depends heavily on trapping effort and observer timing rather than the animal’s own rhythms.
Full species profile
