Tennessee’s swamp rabbit records, 95 combined from iNaturalist and GBIF, cluster in the species’ core habitat: bottomland hardwood forest, cane thickets, and wetland edges concentrated in West Tennessee’s Mississippi River lowlands. That’s a narrower range than a cottontail’s, and it shows in the numbers, this species sits at the 47th percentile for in-state mammal records, an occasional find rather than a routine one.
Records rise sharply each spring: April and May account for the year’s highest monthly tallies, 7 and 8 sightings respectively, while records fall to almost nothing from September through December. That spring concentration lines up with the swamp rabbit’s breeding season, when animals move more and observers are more likely to spot young rabbits along wetland edges.
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