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Nebraska Wildlife Event Calendar

The information contained here is to provide you with general and approximate times when animals, mate, give birth, disperse and cause the majority of damage. It provides a thumbnail of the annual lifecycle of Kansas wildlife. It will provide guidelines only!! Understand that wildlife don't always follow the "rules". For example, NWCO's have observed raccoon young in every month of the year. Certainly, the vast majority of their encounters with raccoon young occur during the Spring. However, be aware that what happens generally doesn't mean much to your situation in particular.  Nevertheless, this calendar is useful in providing you with more information to help you identify the culprit damaging your property.

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Nebraska Wildlife Calendar Month First 2 Weeks Second 2 Weeks Jan     Feb Southern Flying Squirrel (a threatened species) begins mating   Mar Pocket gopher problems peak   April Tree squirrel problems begin Snakes more active Garter mating balls House sparrows raise young May   Rabbit problems peak Snake problems peak Snapping Turtles laying eggs Grackles take feces from nests and deposit them into bird baths. June Robins nesting Prairie dog problems peak Coyote problems peak Rabbit young seen running about Bull snakes deposit eggs July   Tree squirrel complaints peak Aug Garter snake young begin to disperse Bull snake eggs hatch Cicada-killer Wasps dig holes Sept     Oct Snakes prepare for hibernation Grackles begin to grub lawns and form large flocks   Nov     Dec

The information contained here is to provide you with general and approximate times when animals, mate, give birth, disperse and cause the majority of damage.

It will provide guidelines only!! Understand that wildlife don't always follow the "rules". For example, NWCO's have observed raccoon young in every month of the year. Certainly, the vast majority of their encounters with raccoon young occur during the Spring. However, be aware that what happens generally doesn't mean much to your situation in particular.  Nevertheless, this calendar is useful in providing you with more information to help you identify the culprit damaging your property.

We welcome your observations, submit suggestions to svantassel2@unl.edu . For this calendar will be an ongoing project.

References

Dale J. Hafer et. Al. The Nature and Timing of Wildlife Damage Events in Nebraska:A Five‑Year Review of Requests to Three Extension Wildlife Personnel. Eleventh Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings, 1993 Kansas City pp.109-10.

Dennis Ferraro. Incidence of Urban Vertebrate Pest Problems in the Greater Omaha, Nebraska Area. Proceedings 10th Great Plains
     Wildlife Damage Conference (S.E. Hygnstrom, R.M. Case, and R.J. Johnson, eds.) Published at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
     1991. 147-148.

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, Wildlife Division

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