Alabama’s wild boar records don’t gather in parks. The busiest named spot, Wehle Nature Preserve, holds just 3, and the real signal sits in farm and timber counties. Pike County leads with 24, followed by Sumter, Macon, Barbour, Lowndes, Perry, and Bullock. Most of those lie in the Black Belt, the band of dark prairie soil that crosses the middle of the state, or in the row-crop country of the southeast. It’s a landscape of fields, river swamps, and hardwood draws, where hogs raid crops and acorns and bed down in thick cover. Mobile and Baldwin counties add records from the delta and bay country on the coast. All told, Alabama’s 211 records reach 50 counties.
Two seasons of reports
The calendar runs in two humps. Reports climb to 29 in March, sink to a low of 4 in August, then rise again to 27 in October. Summer heat pushes hogs toward night feeding and shaded wet ground, and fewer people are out walking the woods in August, so sightings fall off on both counts. Cooler months bring hogs and observers back into the open.
Wild boar are introduced in Alabama. NatureServe treats a conservation rank as not applicable here, because the species isn’t part of the native fauna. By record count, it ranks 23rd of 78 mammals in the state.
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