Week of Jan 26-30, 2015

My field forays this week consisted of trekking around the old mining district in Banner looking for hibernating Townsend's big-eared bats. It mostly consisted of being thwarted by rugged terrain, thick brush, and private land but did manage to get into one mine that had a couple of Corynorhinus in torpor.

Publicado el sábado, 31 de enero de 2015 a las 12:18 AM por dcstokes_sdnhm dcstokes_sdnhm

Observaciones

Fotos / Sonidos

Qué

Murciélago Orejón de Townsend (Corynorhinus townsendii)

Fecha

Enero 2015

Descripción

Banner, CA

Comentarios

Why only one? Are they a solitary species?

Anotado por steph_taylor hace cerca de 9 años

There were 2 actually, but separated by several meters...this species forms maternity groups (mostly females) during the late spring through early fall while the males are typically solitary. In the winter, you will mostly find solitary individuals in torpor though sometimes you will find multiple bats in torpor in the same general area, however, they are not clustered together like the maternity groups. Thanks for asking!

Anotado por dcstokes_sdnhm hace cerca de 9 años

Ohhhh! Cool! Thanks for responding!

Anotado por steph_taylor hace cerca de 9 años

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