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Silver-haired bat

Lasionycteris noctivagans

Photo by J.T.Layne
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Tree roosting insectivore. Known for it's "frosted tips."

Habitat:

Will roost under bark and within cavities of trees.

Notes:

This species of bat, along with hoary bats and eastern red bats, make up the majority of bat fatalities found at North American wind farms. http://www.batcon.org/index.php/what-we-do/bats-and-wind-energy.html

This bat was caught during a bat survey using mist-nets placed over a stream.

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Comments (1)
KarenL
JT, please consider adding this & your other bat spottings to the new North American bat tracker mission created by the Save Lucy campaign http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/18306114

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Bat Monitoring Project
Photographed
PublishedJanuary 15, 2012

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