Plains spotted skunks carry NatureServe’s S1 rank in Oklahoma, critically imperiled, matching the species’ G3 global rank; this small, agile skunk has declined sharply across its Great Plains range for reasons that remain only partly understood, making Oklahoma’s thin record consistent with a genuine population collapse rather than just an observation gap. The record leans toward GBIF (32 of 45 combined records) over iNaturalist.
February alone accounts for 6 of the year’s 12 monthly-tallied sightings, exactly half the total, with the record completely silent from April through September, a pattern that may track winter trapping-survey timing more than any real seasonal shift in this skunk’s own activity.
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