brown long-eared bat, common long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) Description
Plecotus auritus (Geoffroy) = Plecotus auritus (Linnaeus, 1758), head from front
English: Brown Long-eared Bat
Date 1904
Source Detail of the 67th plate from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1904) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kunstformen_der_Natur
Author Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haeckel_Chiroptera_Plecotus_auritus_2.jpg
The brown long-eared bat or common long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) is a small European bat. It has distinctive ears, long and with a distinctive fold. They are relatively slow flyers compared to other bat species. Adult brown long-eared bats' ears are long enough to be readily distinguished from most other bat species.