Western deer mice carry no NatureServe state rank on file in Oklahoma, and all 15 of the state’s records come from iNaturalist with no GBIF specimen data logged, meaning what’s documented here traces entirely to casual sightings of a small, nocturnal rodent that’s usually caught rather than photographed elsewhere.
March alone accounts for 4 of the year’s 13 monthly-tallied sightings, the largest single-month share, with August and September showing zero records, too thin a pattern in a dataset this small to draw a confident seasonal conclusion beyond confirming the mouse turns up sporadically across Salt Plains, Red Slough, and Lake Thunderbird.
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