California myotis is a small, agile bat that forages over deserts, canyons, and streamside woodland, and its Texas records center on Big Bend, Guadalupe Mountains, and the Davis Mountains, rugged country with the cliffs and rock crevices this species roosts in by day. It’s an insect hunter, out at night picking moths and small flies from the air.
Texas reports climb through spring and peak in June, when insect activity and warm nights likely bring both bats and observers out, then taper into a near-blank February. With only 123 records total, that pattern is thin enough to reflect a few good survey nights more than a true seasonal rhythm. Texas ranks the species S3, vulnerable, a state-level concern that doesn’t show up in its secure global status, worth remembering for a bat this lightly recorded here.
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