The common name of this bat is an honor of the Reverend John Henry Keen who, in 1894, obtained the first specimen from which the species was described. Keen’s myotis is brown in color, darker above ...

While some bat species have seen up to a 99% population decline, Rafinesque's big-eared bat has shown a strong resistance to ...

Four of the nine species of Adirondack bats belong to the genus Myotis, the mouse-eared bats. The little brown bat is the most abundant of the four, and is the common bat of the region. During the ...

southeastern myotis, evening bat, Seminole bat, northern yellow, tricolored, gray (endangered), big brown, Rarinesque's big-eared, hoary and velvety free-tailed. Flightless young bats can become ...

Six species have the disease, one of which had been declared endangered long before white-nose syndrome: the Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis). Three others are at very high risk, including the gray ...

As its name suggests, this bat is distinguishable from other Myotis species by its long ears ... with back fur dullish yellow-brown with brown shoulder spots, and belly fur pale gray. Females tend to ...

The species' flight pattern is highly distinctive; their slow, fluttering movement is unusual for small-bodied bats and makes them easy to distinguish from other Myotis species in flight. Eastern ...