Ord’s kangaroo rats rack up 597 records in Nebraska, more than nearly every other species in this rank tier, yet 588 of them come from GBIF rather than iNaturalist, meaning trapping and survey data, not casual sightings, drive almost everything documented here. NatureServe rates the state population S5, secure, fitting a species tied to the sandy soils of the Nebraska Sandhills over the Ogallala Aquifer.
June alone accounts for 244 of the year’s monthly-tallied records, more than a third of the total, with July adding another 137, a pattern that lines up far more closely with summer trapping-survey timing than with the kangaroo rat’s own year-round nocturnal activity.
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