Narrow-faced kangaroo rat records stay in California’s coastal hills south of San Francisco Bay, where sandy soils under chaparral and grassland give this species its small range. Santa Cruz County leads with 16 records, followed by Santa Clara with 12 and Monterey with 10, and Hastings Natural History Reserve in the upper Carmel Valley is the most often named site.
Most of the 41 records since 2000 are community photos: 38 are research-grade iNaturalist observations, and most of the 34 GBIF records are those same observations shared onward, so museum and survey work adds only three. Records turn up in every month but September, with a modest high in May, and a total this small can shift with a few nights of fieldwork.
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