Least weasels are North America’s smallest carnivore, and South Dakota’s record for the species leans toward GBIF (16 records) over iNaturalist (8), since an animal this small and fast is more likely to turn up in a trap than in a photograph. NatureServe rates the state population S5, secure, despite the genuinely thin record.
Records scatter one at a time across four separate months, February, April, June, and November, too sparse a pattern to describe any real seasonal trend beyond confirming occasional detection through the year.
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