Of the seven species known to be affected by the deadly bat disease white-nose syndrome, the northern long-eared is among the hardest hit. In the U.S. Northeast, where white-nose syndrome has been ...

White-nose syndrome has killed millions of bats since it was first discovered in the U.S. Northeast in 2006. Biologists consider it North America’s worst-ever wildlife disease outbreak. It not only ...

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 ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, in collaboration with Central Lakes College, has discovered a bat species new to Minnesota, the evening bat – Nycticeius humeralis. “It’s very ...

Portal residents have a new nocturnal neighbor, an elusive endangered bat species that was discovered and confirmed making visits to hummingbird feeders in the area. Researchers at Bat ...

The Northern long-eared bat ... The species is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 2015. Northern long-eared bats are particularly susceptible to white-nose syndrome; a ...

New Jersey has reclassified 30 wildlife species found in the state as endangered ... The new animals on the list include the little brown bat, barn owl, green sea turtle and Atlantic sturgeon.

In reality, the more than 1,300 bat species are vitally important to ecosystems and economies ... to establish a security population of bats that have been threatened by white-nose syndrome.

An endangered species of migrating bat has been confirmed in Arizona for the first time, using an emerging genetic sampling method and the work of some amateur scientists. The first definitive ...