The California myotis is among the smallest bats in the West, and in New Mexico it’s recorded across the state’s western and southern uplands, from San Juan County in the northwest and Cibola in the west to Grant, Hidalgo and Otero in the south, with Chaco Culture National Historical Park the most often named site. Nearly all of the state’s 79 records sit in GBIF; only 3 come from iNaturalist, so this reads as a bat New Mexico knows from bat-survey mist netting more than from casual photos.
Records climb steeply in spring and peak in May and June, in step with the warm-season activity typical of small insect-eating bats. The species carries an S4, Apparently Secure, NatureServe rank in New Mexico, fitting a wide western range that reaches into the state’s western and southern mountains.
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