Florida has 71 records for the southern short-tailed shrew, 54 carried in GBIF and 36 posted to iNaturalist. About half come only through GBIF survey and specimen data, which fits an animal that spends most of its life underground and is rarely seen alive. Fanning Springs State Park leads the named sites with 3 records, and Ordway-Swisher Biological Station and Colt Creek State Park add one each, so the rest are scattered rather than clustered at any single place.
April produces the highest monthly total at 15, with February close behind at 12, both well ahead of the rest of the year. That pattern is more likely shaped by when trapping surveys happen than by the shrew’s own activity, since an underground animal like this one is almost never observed directly.
