New Mexico sits at the northern edge of the white-nosed coati’s range, and Gila National Forest carries the only place-level count in the record, five sightings among the oak and sycamore canyons typical of the species’ preferred habitat. City of Rocks State Park and the Gila River corridor round out the wider pattern.
Reports stay thin and spread fairly evenly across the year, with a mild uptick in April. Sixty-one total records is too few to call that a real seasonal signal.
NatureServe lists the coati as S2, Imperiled, in New Mexico, even though its global rank sits at G5, Secure. That gap matters: the species is doing fine range-wide but genuinely uncommon this far north, where bands of females and young occasionally push into the Mogollon highlands while adult males typically travel alone.
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