Texas holds more white-tailed deer than any other state, an estimated several million animals spread across Hill Country ranchland, East Texas pine woods, and brushy South Texas alike, and the more than 52,000 records here trace only a thin slice of that population along the wooded Brazos and Trinity river corridors and Caddo National Grasslands, where water and cover cut through farms and towns.
Unlike many Texas mammals, deer records don’t collapse in summer; the count stays high nearly every month, with only a modest April peak standing out. That flatness fits a species active and visible across every season, from spring green-up through the fall rut. NatureServe rates the species secure both statewide and across its full range.
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