Južni veliki večernjak - Myotis blythii, Lesser Mouse-eared Bat

Abstract

Lesser Mouse-eared bat prefers open habitats instead of forest habitats favored by Myotis myotis. In the north the summer and maternity roosts are in building attics and in the south in caves. Males were recorded in caves and bunkers while hibernation colonies are underground. Since 1960 there were 222 ringed bats in Serbia, with 19 recovery records, most of them loco. Occasionally this species makes longer movements, so a bat ringed at Abaliget cave in SW Hungary travelled 87 km to Sombor.