The eastern cottontail is an herbivore, and eats a wide variety of plant parts, but prefers green vegetation. Grasses and legumes are favorites. However, cottontails also consume many broad-leaved ...

Cottontails who survive winter see their population begin to rebound in March, when females give birth to the first litter of ...

However, in 2015 MDIFW confirmed a nest of eastern cottontails in a shipment of potted plants from New Jersey, thus documenting that they occasionally hitchhike into Maine from other states.