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Grey long eared bat

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Kingdom
  
Order
  
Chiroptera

Genus
  
Higher classification
  
Plecotus

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Vespertilionidae

Scientific name
  
Plecotus austriacus

Rank
  
Species


Similar
  
Plecotus, Brown long‑eared bat, Serotine bat, Whiskered bat, Lesser noctule

The grey long-eared bat (Plecotus austriacus) is a fairly large European bat. It has distinctive ears, long and with a distinctive fold. It hunts above woodland, often by day, and mostly for moths. It is extremely similar to the more common brown long-eared bat, and was only distinguished in the 1960s, but has a paler belly.

While Continental European distributions are not threatened, a 2013 study found this species was close to extinction in the United Kingdom.

Echolocation

The frequencies used by this bat species for echolocation lie between 18–45 kHz, have most energy at 28 kHz and have an average duration of 5.8 ms.

References

Grey long-eared bat Wikipedia


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