Hooded skunks reach Texas only at the far western edge of their range, and the state’s handful of records around Big Bend, Guadalupe Mountains, and the Davis Mountains sit right where that range spills north out of Mexico into desert canyon country. Interestingly, the species runs noticeably larger in the Southwestern United States than in southern Mexico, so the animals turning up here are near the big end of the scale.
With just 13 Texas records, the monthly counts are too sparse to trust as a calendar, a few sightings scattered across the year with no real cluster. Texas lists the species S1, critically imperiled, a sharp contrast to its secure global rank. This is a marginal population at the northern tip of hooded skunk range, and thin records here likely reflect genuine scarcity as much as limited searching.
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