#0049 · 🦊 mammals

Grey Long-eared Bat

🇳🇱 Grijze Grootoorvleermuis ·Plecotus austriacus

NTnear threatened 🦊 Mammals 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Milan Pestalozzi · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Rudo Jureček · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. Manche, Basse-Normandie, FR:© Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Euskirchen, DE-NW, DE:© eifelman · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Italy:© chirosphera · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Forli' - Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, IT:© Eddi Bisulli · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Île-de-France, FR:© Julien Bottinelli · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Steiermark, AT:© Johannes Färber-Hallama · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Dorset, England, GB:© thelandlover · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The grey long-eared bat ( Plecotus austriacus ) is a fairly large European bat. It has distinctive ears, long and with a distinctive fold. It hunts above woodland, often by day, and mostly for moths. It is extremely similar to the more common brown long-eared bat, and was only distinguished in the 1960s, but has a paler belly.

base stats

NL sightings 6iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 743iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

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).