Tennessee’s prairie vole record is built almost entirely on specimen and survey data: 303 GBIF entries against a single iNaturalist observation. That gap says this is a species biologists document through trapping surveys, not one people commonly photograph or encounter directly.
March is by far the busiest month in the record, with 30 reports, and May follows with 21. Both line up with the vole’s main spring breeding activity, when survey effort and animal movement are both elevated. Records drop close to zero by midsummer and stay low into fall.
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