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Little Brown Bat

Myotis lucifugus

Photo by Tom15
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42.3789, -72.0324

Field Notes

Notes:

A friend took me to an abandoned cave in western Massachusetts where he'd been monitoring the bats for a couple decades. There were 4 species of bats in there, with almost 6,000 individuals. A few years after this spotting, white nose disease was discovered in the northeast and the cave has been off limits since.

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Comments (3)
Tom15
I'm hoping they survived too and developed a resistance to white nose. But I'll never know for sure:-(
Maria dB
Nice spotting; hopefully, some survived

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Bat Monitoring Project
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North American Bat Tracker
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PublishedMarch 2, 2013

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