House mouse records at Okefenokee and Banks Lake don’t make this an animal of Georgia swamps. Barns, storage rooms, visitor buildings, and nearby farms create the dry shelter it follows. Atlanta development and the state’s peanut, cotton, and grain country provide the same connection to structures and stored food.
May and November dominate the record series. Spring fieldwork and autumn movement into buildings may both improve detection, but the reports don’t track a wild population cycle. NatureServe treats the house mouse as exotic in Georgia. Its scattered refuge records are a useful reminder that a dot inside protected land may come from a human-made corner of that landscape, not the native habitat surrounding it.
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