California’s combined state files contain 92 Rock Squirrel records: 27 from iNaturalist and 65 from GBIF. It ranks 184th among 243 mammals in this California record comparison, placing it in the lower third. That’s a ranking of submitted records, not a head count of animals.
The monthly series reaches its high point in May, with 8 records in the busiest month. Records appear in 6 of 12 months, so the pattern shows when sightings were documented, not when the species must be present or absent.
The national summary doesn’t provide a California share that can be compared cleanly with this state total. It’s better to treat these records as evidence of documentation effort rather than a measure of the species’ wider range.
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