Mexican woodrats in Texas stick to rocky, high-elevation woodland in the Trans-Pecos “sky island” ranges, Big Bend National Park, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, and the Davis Mountains, where they wedge stick nests into crevices, boulder piles, and cave mouths rather than building the more exposed houses some woodrat species pile up in the open. All 83 Texas records come through GBIF with no iNaturalist observations at all, so this pattern reflects museum and field-survey specimens rather than people spotting a live animal, unsurprising for a nocturnal rodent that dens underground.
NatureServe ranks the species S4, Apparently Secure, in Texas. Records scatter across the year with a modest October bump, but on a sample this small that’s more likely survey timing than a real autumn peak in activity.
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