Muskrats carry a NatureServe S5 secure rank in Mississippi, and the record leans on iNaturalist (18) more than GBIF (11). Harrison County on the coast leads with 5 records and neighboring Jackson adds 3, and single sightings at Graveline Bay and Bayou Portage coastal reserves put muskrats in Gulf Coast marsh, the kind of wetland cover this species depends on for burrow-lodges and cattail forage. That’s the southern edge of a range that’s generally denser farther north.
Records stay low all year, never more than three in a month, with May holding the most and January none. That’s too few to show a seasonal pattern, and the thin spread fits a species that’s sparsely recorded this far south rather than seasonally absent.
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