Little brown bat

Myotis lucifugus · Vespertilionidae

The little brown bat or little brown myotis is an endangered species of mouse-eared microbat found in North America. It has a small body size and glossy brown fur. It is similar in appearance to several other mouse-eared bats, including the Indiana bat, northern long-eared bat, and Arizona myotis, to which it is closely related.

Where the Little brown bat lives

Recorded in United States of America and Canada (North America).

Most records fall in California, Kentucky, Ontario, Colorado, New York and Alaska.

See the Little brown bat’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Endangered (EN). In danger of dying out in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 10,648 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.