Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Silver-haired bat

Lasionycteris noctivagans

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

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

1 Comment

KarenL
KarenL 11 years ago

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/1830...

J.T.Layne
Spotted by
J.T.Layne

Bucyrus, Ohio, USA

Spotted on Jul 29, 2011
Submitted on Jan 15, 2012

Spotted for Mission

Related Spottings

Silver-haired bat Silver-haired Silver-haired Bat silver-haired bat

Nearby Spottings

Green Lacewing Northern Myotis Big Brown Bat Little Brown Bat

Reference

Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team