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

Authors

Keith Geluso, University of New Mexico
Jeffrey J. Huebschman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jeremy A. WhiteFollow
Michael A. Bogen, University of New Mexico

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2004

Publication Title

Western North American Naturalist

Volume

64

Issue

3

First Page

353

Last Page

358

Abstract

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

Comments

Published in Western North American Naturalist 64(3), © 2004, pp. 353–358.

Recommended Citation

Geluso, Keith; Huebschman, Jeffrey J.; White, Jeremy A.; and Bogen, Michael A., "Reproduction and Seasonal Activity of Silver-Haired Bats in Western Nebraska" (2004). Biology Faculty Publications. 54.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/biofacpub/54