Ord’s kangaroo rat carries one of the strongest records in this rank band, 483 total sightings, though its real Wyoming stronghold is the state’s low sagebrush basins rather than the high mountain parks its overlay locations point to; this bipedal, seed-hoarding rodent needs the loose, sandy soil of desert flats to burrow, not alpine terrain.
Records climb sharply from May through July, peaking at 172 in July, then taper through late summer, a pattern that likely tracks trapping-survey timing as much as this strictly nocturnal rodent’s own activity. NatureServe ranks the species S5, Secure, in Wyoming.
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