Prairie voles have 31 records in Nebraska since 2000, 29 carried by GBIF and 14 by iNaturalist, a small set for a grassland rodent that spends most of its life in runways under the grass and is rarely seen. Scotts Bluff and Garden counties in the west hold more than half of them. NatureServe rates the state population S5, secure.
May leads the calendar with 8 of the year’s monthly-tallied records, and May through July together hold nearly two-thirds, a spring-to-summer lean that likely reflects when people are out in the grass more than the vole’s own activity, since prairie voles stay active under grass and snow cover year-round.
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