Red foxes tolerate almost any habitat elsewhere in their range, from farmland to city edges, but Texas’s records cluster in the higher, cooler country of the Trans-Pecos, Big Bend, the Guadalupe Mountains, and the Davis Mountains, a narrower slice of the state than the species could probably use.
With 417 records, most from photographs rather than museum specimens, Texas observers clearly recognize the rusty coat, black legs, and white-tipped tail on sight. Reports run highest in January and lowest in August, a swing that likely tracks cold-weather activity and visibility more than any real summer disappearance. The species ranks common in Texas, at the 74th percentile among the state’s mammals, and NatureServe lists it S4, Apparently Secure.
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