Whiskered bat: description, photos and interesting facts. Whiskered bat: description, photos and interesting facts Whiskered bat: photo and description of the species

home The wing membrane connects to the base of the outer finger. The epiblem is missing. The tail is elongated, some individuals may have equal to length

of the whole body. The ears are large, elongated and slightly extended forward. The skull has a non-standard shape. The front part is slightly narrowed in front. They have a massive build. The hair grows in a chaotic manner.

Dimensions: body length of the mustachioed bat is 4-5 cm.

Colour: The upperparts are dark brown or dark grey. The underside of the body is white or gray-brown. Whiskered bat

feeds mainly on invertebrate animals - various insects and their larvae (mosquitoes, house flies, grasshoppers, cockroaches, butterflies, beetles and others). They fly out to hunt in the evening or at night. They catch insects at a height of 1-5 meters.

Broods appear in June-July. Young individuals begin to lead an independent lifestyle within a month after birth. The baleen bat can be found throughout Europe, Asia, China, near Black and Mediterranean seas

. They live in various areas, can be found on plains, mountains, forests, steppes and deserts. They live in various caves, attics, walls, crevices., 1819

Myotis mystacinus Kuhl

Order Chiroptera - Chiroptera Family Smooth-nosed bats, or Common bats - Vespertilionidae Short description.

Small bat. The color on the back is brown. The fur is slightly tousled and uneven. The wing membrane is attached to the base of the outer toe of the hind limb. The length of the foot does not exceed half the length of the lower leg. There is no epiblem. The ear is extended along the head and protrudes 1-3 mm beyond the tip of the nose. The apex of the ear is narrow, mastoidally elongated. A notch on the outer edge and 4-5 transverse folds are clearly visible. The tragus is pointed, evenly tapering towards the apex, exceeding half the length of the auricle. The base of the tragus and the inner edge of the ear are the same color as the entire auricle.. Habitats and biology finds are confined to the mountain-steppe landscape. In the Irkutsk region, the only find was made on the river. Urik. Biology has been poorly studied. Known shelters in the Chita region are confined to outbuildings or rock cracks. Lives in small groups of 3 to 18 animals. There is usually one cub per litter. Emerges late, but often occurs at dusk. Active all night. It hunts by flying at a height of 1-6 m, usually above water bodies and near the crowns of trees. The flight is fast, with rather sharp turns. The young will be born in June-July. In the northern regions it flies south for the winter [b].

Spreading. Widespread Paleoarctic species. Inhabits Europe, North-West Africa and open landscapes of Asia to Mongolia and North-East China. In the Irkutsk region, one reliable find is known in 1959 in the Cheremkhovo district on the river. Urik. It is possible that this species includes encounters with bats in the Nizhneudinsky region in the Bol cave. Nizhneudinskaya and in the Olkhonsky district in the vicinity of the village. Small Kocherikovo (3). No winter finds are known in the Irkutsk region. Bone remains not found in caves.

Number. Low, isolated occurrences in the Irkutsk region. In the Chita region in the steppe areas it is more common and is second in number only to the two-colored leatherback.

Limiting factors. Not known, due to the fact that the species is located on the outskirts of its range. It's possible negative impact fires and deforestation, as well as the destruction of temporary shelters from dry trees with hollows and loose bark.

Accepted and recommended security measures. No special protection measures have been developed. Need to find out current state species and, if new habitats are discovered, take measures to protect them. Attracting bats by hanging birdhouses and other artificial shelters in forests.

Information sources: 1 - Botvinkin, 2002; 2 - Catalog..., 1989; 3 - Lyamkin, 1983; 4 - Ovodov, 1972; 5 - Rosina, Kirilyuk, 2000; b - Flint et al., 1970.

Compiled by: V.V. Popov.

Artist: D.V. Kuznetsova.

Whiskered bat - Myotis mystacinus Kuhl, 1817

Order Chiroptera - Chiroptera

Family Smooth-nosed bats - Vespertilionidae

Category, status. 3 - rare view. Included in the Red Books of the Leningrad and Smolensk regions, the republics of Belarus, Estonia, and Latvia. It is protected by the Berne Convention (Appendix II). Guarded in Western Europe, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic republics under the 1991 Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats (EUROBATS).

Short description. Small bat. Body length 39-46 mm. Forearm length 30-35 mm. The wingspan is 19-23 cm. The color of the back is dark, brownish-brown. The underparts are grayish tones. The fur is thick and long. The epiblema is undeveloped. The wing membrane is attached to the base of the outer toe. By external signs difficult to distinguish from Brandt's bat.

Area and distribution. Distributed throughout Europe, in northern Africa, Southwestern and Central Asia east to Mongolia; in Russia - the south and east of the European part, the Caucasus, Southern Urals and Northern Caspian region, mountainous regions of the southern Western and Eastern Siberia, Transbaikalia. Inhabits different landscapes from forest zones to deserts (1).

In the Pskov region it is known from the discovery of two females in the village of Trutnevo, Gdovsky district (2).

Habitats and biological features. It settles in tree hollows and human buildings. Departure late, active all night. It occurs singly or forms small colonies. Flies out to hunt in the thick twilight. It feeds over forest roads, clearings, park alleys, over ponds, and along forest edges. The flight is fast and maneuverable. Mating after the end of lactation or during wintering. At the end of June - beginning of July, the female gives birth to one cub. A sedentary species that does not migrate long distances.

Species abundance and limiting factors. There are no long-term observations of the distribution and condition of the population. Limiting factors include: low reproductive capacity, cutting down of hollow trees, disturbance in the areas where brood colonies are located and wintering areas.

Security measures. Organization of specially protected natural areas at wintering grounds and in areas where brood colonies are located.

Information sources:

1. Pavlinov et al., 2002; 2. Chistyakov, 2002; author's data.

Compiled by: D. V. Chistyakov.

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Registration locations:

Brest region - all

Vitebsk region - except for the far east

Gomel region - except for the eastern 1/3

Grodno region - all

Minsk region -all

Mogilev region - except for the eastern 1/2

Family Vespertilionidae.

The smallest representative of the genus of bats. A rare, sedentary, little-studied species of bats in the country. On the territory of Belarus in the east lies the border of the range. The extreme east of Vitebsk, the eastern half of Mogilev and about 1/3 of the eastern part of Gomel regions remain outside the range. On the territory of Belarus it is found everywhere, but rarely, and over the past 15 years there has been a sharp decline in the number of baleen bats.

The smallest representative of the genus of bats. Body length 3.8-5 cm; tail 3-4 cm; ear height 1.4-1.5 cm; tragus 0.8 cm; forearms 3.2-3.7 cm. Body weight 4.5-10 g. Ears are long, pointed, if pressed to the head, they reach the tip of the nose. The flight membrane is attached at the base of the outer toe of the hind limb.

Among other species of bats, it is identified by the following characteristics: the wing membrane is attached to the hind limb at the base of the outer finger, and there is a rudimentary part of the epiblema on the spur.

The fur is long, thick, and has a silky sheen on the back. The general color tone of the back is from fawn-red to brownish-brown, on the abdomen it is gray-whitish.

At the end of March and the first half of April, the mustachioed moth appears in summer shelters: in hollows, under shutters and behind window frames, under the lining of wooden sheds, under loose bark, in woodpiles, etc.

It flies out to hunt early, in the evening twilight. It feeds without interruption all night in open clearings and forest edges, in gardens and parks, along forest clearings and roads, over reservoirs and in tree crowns at a height of 1.5-5 m.

The diet includes dipterans, stoneflies, caddisflies, mayflies, small butterflies and beetles.

The whiskered bat leads a solitary lifestyle. During birth and

feeding the young is found in small groups of up to 10 individuals, less often - up to several dozen. Males and unmarried females lead a solitary lifestyle.

The gestation period in this species of bats is extended. Mass births are observed in the second half of June. Females give birth to one or two young. By the end of the third week, the young are capable of flight; independent flights begin at the age of 4 weeks. In August, after the young have transitioned to an independent lifestyle, no spatial separation of the sexes is observed.

Some populations of the long-whiskered bat perform seasonal migrations and have been observed in wandering colonies of the pygmy pipistrelle. At the end of July and August, when the autumn migrations of the pygmy pipistrelle are observed in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, several cases have been recorded in which baleen bats were present in the colonies of this species. Perhaps the mustachioed bat migrates together with the dwarf pipistrelle. IN Voronezh Nature Reserve a large number of

In Belovezhskaya Pushcha, 2 cases of wintering of the long-whiskered bat were recorded in December and February in the basements of buildings. It is interesting that in August 2 baleen bats were caught in a community with the late leatherback, which leads to Belarus sedentary image life. Wintering places of this species in caves are known in Latvia, Estonia, in the vicinity of St. Petersburg, and in Poland.

This is a small bat that has a body length of only 48 mm. Similar to the water bat, but slightly smaller than the latter.

The upper side of the bat's body is colored gray-brown, the lower side is dark gray. The coloration of these mice is subject to strong variations: young individuals are darker in color. Dental 2.1.3.3/3.1.3.3 = 38. The ears are quite long. The wing membrane is attached to the base of the outer toe.

The baleen bat is widespread throughout almost the entire Eurasian continent, with the exception of the northern regions.

This mouse settles both in hollows and in buildings. It also lives in gullies and karst crevices. Moths usually do not form large clusters. Its flight is not particularly fast, which is obviously explained by the structure of its relatively wide wings. As a rule, it flies among the crowns of trees, in forest clearings, in park alleys, etc. The bat usually flies out to hunt and flies out quite late, only with the onset of thick twilight. The bat usually hunts near bodies of water. The bat feeds mainly on small insects.