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Lesser long-nosed bat

Leptonycteris curasoae

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26.007, -111.34

Field Notes

Description:

Colonial species, occupies abandoned mines and caves at the base of mountains where the alluvial fan supports agaves, yuccas, saguaros, and organ pipe cacti.

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Comments (6)
Ava T-B
Please consider adding this spotting to the new North American Bat Tracker mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/18306114
Ava T-B
I really appreciate your spottings; I'm in San Diego, and Baja is such a similar biome, but less disturbed by humans.
GabyMerlinaOlimon
We took him out of the mine for a minute to take pictures. This was while doing research on bats of the desert of Central Baja California.
Ava T-B
How did you get a daylight picture of this bat? It's great!

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Bat Monitoring Project
Photographed
PublishedDecember 7, 2011

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