Muskrats carry a NatureServe S5 secure rank in Mississippi, and the record splits close to evenly between iNaturalist (18) and GBIF (19). The north Mississippi flood-control lakes’ single logged sighting anchors the kind of still-water wetland habitat this species depends on for burrow-lodges and cattail forage, at the southern edge of a range that’s generally denser farther north.
Records stay low and steady across most months, one to three sightings, before a modest November peak (5 of the year’s 26 monthly-tallied sightings), too subtle a pattern to point to one clear driver but consistent with a species that’s genuinely uncommon this far south rather than seasonally absent.
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