North American least shrews carry a NatureServe S5 secure rank in Alabama, and all 26 of the state’s records come from iNaturalist with no GBIF specimen data, meaning what’s documented here traces entirely to casual sightings of a species that’s genuinely difficult to detect given its tiny size and near-constant activity in dense ground cover.
Records appear in nine separate months with a June peak (5 sightings) and secondary bumps in October and November, a scattered pattern that fits a shrew active year-round without true hibernation, its visibility more likely tied to observer effort than to any consistent seasonal cycle.
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