grey long-eared bat (Plecotus austriacus) Description
Plecotus austriacus
Date 13 September 2008, 00:58:24
Source originally posted to Flickr as Plecotus austriacus
Author Jasja Dekker http://flickr.com/photos/8170571@N03
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plecotus_austriacus.jpg
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.
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Plecotus
Species: Plecotus austriacus (Fischer, 1829)
