Hoary Bat

Lasiurus cinereus

What stunning bats! They are Austin bats only in passing, as the females migrate from what could be their wintering grounds in the high pine forests of Mexico’s Sierra Madre up through Arkansas to their summer range in the mid-west, and to a lesser extent, in the northeast. There they will bear twin pups and in the fall come back through Austin on their migration down south again. The males tend to migrate up and down the Rockies.

Here’s a female found disoriented and emaciated on the University of Texas campus this spring. What an honor it was to fix her up and get her released in time to resume her migration.