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Serotine bat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Eptesicus
Species: E. serotinus
Binomial name
Eptesicus serotinus
(Schreber, 1774)

The serotine bat (Eptesicus serotinus) is a fairly large European bat with quite large ears. It has a wingspan of around 37 cm (15 in) and often hunts in woodland. It sometimes roosts in buildings, hanging upside down, in small groups or individually.

Echolocation [edit]

The frequencies used by this bat species for echolocation lie between 25-55 kHz, have most energy at 31 kHz and have an average duration of 8.8 ms.[2][3]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Hutson, A.M., Spitzenberger, F., Aulagneir, S., Alcaldé, J.T., Csorba, G., Bumrungsri, S., Francis, C., Bates, P., Gumal, M., Kingston, T., & Benda, P. (2008). "Eptesicus serotinus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 16 March 2013. 
  2. ^ Parsons, S.; Jones, G. (2000). "Acoustic identification of twelve species of echolocating bat by discriminant function analysis and artificial neural networks". J Exp Biol 203: 2641–2656. 
  3. ^ Obrist, M.K.; Boesch, R. and Fluckiger, P.F. (2004). "Variability in echolocation call design of 26 Swiss bat species: Consequences, limits and options for automated field identification with a synergic pattern recognition approach". Mammalia 68 (4): 307–32. 
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