#0148 · 🦊 mammals

Savi's Pipistrelle

🇳🇱 Alpendwergvleermuis ·Hypsugo savii

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 in Europe, not in NL

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

Savi's pipistrelle ( Hypsugo savii sometimes classified as Pipistrellus savii ) is a species of vesper bat found across North West Africa, the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. It feeds at night on flying insects. In the summer it roosts under bark, in holes in trees, in old buildings and in rock crevices but in winter it prefers roosts where the temperature is more even such as caves, underground vaults and deep rock cracks.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,106iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
1,106 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1837 (189 years ago).