Brazilian Free-tailed Bat

Brazilian Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis)
Protection Status Notes T. brasiliensis is widely regarded as one of the most abundant mammals in North America, and is not on any Federal lists.

Brazilian Free-tailed Bat
BRAZILIAN FREE-TAILED BAT

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Brazilian Free-tailed Bat ( Tadarida brasiliensis )
Mexican free-tailed
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Brazilian free-tailed bats appear every year in Texas in multimillion numbers to inhabit a few select caves (known as "guano caves") located in the Balcones Escarpment and the adjacent Edwards Plateau.

Brazilian Free-tailed Bat
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Brazilian Free-tailed Bat
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Molossidae
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Credit: New Mexico Bat Call Library, W. L. Gannon ...

Brazilian Free-tailed Bat
Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana (Saussure) ...

Brazilian free-tailed bat
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Brazilian free-tailed bats use a variety of different roost sites, including caves and man-made structures, such as bridges and attics.

Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis)
White-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus)
White olive (Terminalia arbuscula)
Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus)
Red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
Sand martin (Riparia riparia) ...

A subspecies of the Brazilian Free-tailed Bat, the Mexican-Free-tailed Bat forms colonies of several million individuals. Females migrate from Central Mexico to Texas and adjacent states each spring, returning south in the fall.

Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis cynocephala)
Carolina beaver (Castor canadensis carolinensis)
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Some bats, like the Brazilian free-tailed bat, the evening bat, and the big brown bat are colonial, meaning they gather together in a colony to roost during the day.

When a large colony of Brazilian free-tailed bats roosting in a campus stadium caused odor problems, university officials installed the massive house, which now holds about 100,000 bats and has become a local landmark." ...

See also: Free-tailed Bat, Bat, Sea Lion, Andean cat, Lion