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Hoary Bat
Photo Credit: Merlin D. Tuttle, Bat Conservation International
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Lasiurus cinereus ...

 


Hoary Bat (Lasiurus cinereus)
Protection Status Notes Nothing is known about the hoary bat's status or population trends. The mainland L. cinereus is not listed by the U.S.

Hoary Bat
Lasiurus cinereus
The Hoary Bat migrates to warmer climates in winter rather than hibernate. In summer, male Hoary Bats are found in the southwestern U.S., while the females are spread over the U.S. and southern Canada.

Hoary bat - LASIURUS CINEREUS
Endangered
Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
Subclass: True Mammals (Eutheria)
Order: Hand Wing (Chiroptera)
Family: Vespertilionidae.

Hoary Bat
(Lasiurus cinereus)
RANGE: Most of the U.S. and Canada, into northern Mexico.
STATUS: Not a protected species ...

Hoary Bat
Order Chiroptera : Family Vespertilionidae : Lasiurus cinereus (Palisot de Beauvois) ...

Hoary bats can probably eat up to 40% of their own body weight in a single meal. It has been suggested that certain moths in Hawaii have evolved with the bat and can detect the social calls of hoary bats.

Hoary Bat
Lasiurus cinereus (Beauvois)
Description: Hoary bats are the largest Kansas bat, being at least an inch longer than red bats, to which they are related.

Hoary bats are found from northern Canada all the way to Guatemala, and also in South America and Hawaii. They are solitary and roost in trees. Their frosted, or hoary, look comes from a tinge of white over their grayish-brown fur.

Hawaiian Hoary Bats: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Hoary Bats: Alien World
Indiana Bat
Jamaican Leaf-nosed Bats
Keen's Myotis (Bat): Alien Earth
Little Brown Bat (commonest): Alien Earth: Habitat, Description, Hibernating ...

hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus cinereus)
house mouse (Mus musculus musculus)
Howell's eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus howelli)
Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis)
Kirtland's short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda kirtlandi) ...

species, the Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus semotus)(Hawaii), little Mariana fruit bat (Pteropus tokudae)(Guam) and Mariana fruit bat (Pteropus mariannus mariannus)(Guam), are also listed as endangered.

Little Brown Bat - Myotis lucifugus
Long-legged Bat - Myotis volans
Eastern Red Bat - Lasiurus borealis
Hoary Bat - Lasiurus cinereus
Silver-haired Bat - Lasionycteris noctivagans
Big Brown Bat - Eptesicus fuscus ...

Hoary Bat Lasiurus cinereus - Vagrant.
Common Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus
Soprano Pipistrelle P. pygmaeus
Nathusius Pipistrelle P. nathusii
Barbastelle Barbastella barbastellus
Brown Long-eared Bat Plecotus auritus ...

Large, solitary North American bats of wide distribution are the hoary bat, Lasiurus cinereus, yellow-brown with silver frosting, and the red bat, L. borealis, which is a striking brick-red color. Both have soft, thick fur and roost in trees.

See also: Bat, Fly, Beetle, Big Brown Bat, Chiroptera