Little pocket mouse holds a respectable mid-tier record in Arizona’s low desert scrub and sandy washes, one of the smallest rodents in North America and a species survey trapping documents far more reliably than casual sightings.
The record spikes hard in April and May, 33 and 71 sightings respectively, before dropping to single digits the rest of the year, a pattern almost certainly driven by spring trapping-survey timing rather than a true seasonal population surge in a species that is active whenever nighttime temperatures allow.
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