North American least shrew, one of the smallest mammals in North America, holds 20 records in Kentucky clustered around Land Between the Lakes and the Clarks River and Reelfoot refuges, old-field and grassland edges where this shrew builds its own runways rather than following those of other burrowers.
Records scatter across the year with small clusters in late winter and fall, too thin to describe a confident seasonal pattern for an animal that hunts insects nearly around the clock rather than settling into a single daily rhythm. NatureServe ranks the species S5, Secure, in Kentucky.
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