Arizona mammals

Montane Shrew in Arizona

Sorex monticolus

Native to Arizona S4 Apparently Secure in Arizona

Not listed as nonindigenous in Arizona by USGS NAS; native to its Arizona range.

IUCN Red List status

  1. LC
  2. NT
  3. VU
  4. EN
  5. CR
  6. EW
  7. EX

LC – Least Concern

Widespread and abundant; not at risk.

Montane Shrew in Arizona, by the numbers

Occasional in Arizona 104th most recorded of 158 mammals logged in Arizona

25 occurrence records

Records from 2000–2026.

When to look for the Montane Shrew in Arizona

Most sightings fall in August to September.

25 Arizona occurrence records (iNaturalist and GBIF) by month of year, 2000–2026. Shows when the species is recorded, not a guarantee of presence. Based on a small number of dated records; the seasonal pattern may not be representative.

Monthly Arizona records (table)
MonthRecords
January0
February0
March0
April0
May0
June0
July0
August11
September14
October0
November0
December0

Monthly montane shrew occurrence records (iNaturalist and GBIF) in Arizona, 2000–2026.

Seasonality

Year-round in Arizona, with recorded sightings peaking in August–September.

Occurrence map

Where Montane Shrew has been recorded in Arizona

25 records mapped · zoom and drag to explore

25 Arizona records mapped

Where it's recorded in Arizona

CountyRecords
Apache County 14
Pima County 10
Graham County 1

The complete county distribution, spread across 3 Arizona counties. Every occurrence record falls in one county, so these sum to the total. Counties from GBIF and US Census boundaries.

Montane shrew in Arizona is restricted to the cool, moist forest floor of the state’s highest Sky Island and White Mountains ranges, and its mid-tier record traces almost entirely to two months of the year.

August and September together account for every logged sighting, which reads as trapping-survey timing rather than a true two-month activity window; a shrew this small and this seasonally undersampled needs a longer record before any real seasonal pattern can be claimed.

More mammals in Arizona in the atlas

Data & sources

The data and visualizations on this page draw on these open sources:

  • GBIFCC-BY 4.0occurrence records behind the range map, elevation, and record counts
  • iNaturalistCC0 / CC-BY / CC-BY-SAobservations, photos, and audio recordings
  • NatureServe ExplorerCC-BYthe state conservation rank
  • IUCN Red Listattributed factthe global conservation status
  • USGS NASpublic domainnative / introduced status
  • Natural Earthpublic domainthe relief basemap
  • USFSpublic domainnational-forest boundaries