British Columbia Bat Resources

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Roosting male long-eared bat, probably Myotis keenii. Caught at Cathedral Cave, September 7. 1997 (photo credit: Mark Carema)

With 17 species, British Columbia has more bats than any other part of Canada. We have none of the exotic tropical species, but our bats have managed to cope with the Canadian winter, a season of cold temperatures and few insects for food. Some of our bats avoid winter by migrating elsewhere; others hibernate in caves or old mines. (David Nagorsen, Mammal Curator, Royal British Columbia Museum) Species include - California Myotis (Myotis californicus). Western Small-footed Myotis (Myotis ciliolabrum). Western Long-eared Myotis (Myotis evotis). Keen's Long-eared Myotis (Myotis keenii). Little Brown Myotis (Myotis lucifugus). Northern Long-eared Myotis (Myotis septentrionalis). Fringed Myotis (Myotis thysanodes) Long-legged Myotis (Myotis volans). Yuma Myotis (Myotis yumanensis). Western Red Bat (Lasiurus blossevillii). Hoary Bat (Lasiurus cinereus). Silver-haired Bat 3 (Lasionycteris noctivagans). Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus). Spotted Bat (Euderma maculatum). Townsend's Big-eared Bat (Coryorhinus townsendii). Pallid Bat (Antrozous pallidus).

BC Ministry of the Environment handout on the endangered Spotted Bats of British Columbia Phylogenetic relationships among three species of long-eared Myotis in British Columbia inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences, Bats at the Royal British Columbia Museum Vertical Structure in the Bat Community of an Old Growth Temperate Rain Forest Some notes about The endangered Pallid Bats in British Columbia Island Karst Research's current project, Bat Usage of a Major Karst Area on Northern Vancouver Island A plug for David Nagorsens' Bat Book, very good! Standardized Inventory Methodologies for Components of British Columbia's Biodiversity : Bats BATS, Safe and Sensible Pest Control Goatsuckers: Bats and goatsuckers -- night-active flying vertebrates, by Dr. R. Mark Brigham Stanley Park Conservation Committee, Bat Conservation Project Canadian Bat Resource Personel Canadian Bat Resource Links Return to Canadian Bat Resources The Canadian Cave and Karst Information Server

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This site created Sept '95,
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