Gray bat: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the gray bat lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Myotis grisescens
Group	Bats
Status	Vulnerable (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	North America
Mass	2.9 g (birth weight); 10.7 g (adult weight)
Class	Mammal
Order	Chiroptera
Family	Vespertilionidae

Where does the gray bat live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the gray bat in 1 country or territory across North America.

United States

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a gray bat?

Wikidata records the following for the gray bat: mass 2.9 g (birth weight); 10.7 g (adult weight).

Is the gray bat endangered?

The gray bat’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Vulnerable” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the gray bat?

The gray bat (Myotis grisescens) is a mammal in the order Chiroptera and the family Vespertilionidae, genus Myotis. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the gray bat

The gray bat (Myotis grisescens) is a species of microbat endemic to North America. It once flourished in caves all over the southeastern United States, but due to human disturbance, gray bat populations declined severely during the early and mid portion of the 20th century. Today, only fifteen caves support 95% of hibernating gray bats. M. grisescens has been listed as federally endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 1976, and is protected under the Endangered Species Act. Gray bat populations were estimated at approximately 2 million bats around the time they were placed on the Endangered Species list. By the early 1980s populations of gray bats dropped to 1.6 million. With conservation efforts in place, in 2004, gray bat populations were estimated to have reached 3.4 million.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Gray bat (revision 1346798137), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q1834518 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).