Reproduction and Seasonal Activity of Silver-Haired Bats in Western Nebraska

摘要: —Silver-haired bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans) were thought only to migrate through Nebraska; however, recent surveys in eastern Nebraska report summer records of females and their young. Our study western also shows that silver-haired are residents. We discovered the 1st reproductively active L. noctivagans this part state. caught lactating volant young riparian forests along North Platte River forested areas Pine Ridge. Previously, adult males not known from summer, 4 during migration. On 28 July we captured an male a coniferous forest Wildcat Hills, have more than 100 migrating individuals. Lastly, obese on November may represent individual preparing hibernate