Eastern red bats carry a NatureServe S3 vulnerable rank in Nebraska that matches the species’ G3 global rank, reflecting broader range-wide pressure, largely from wind-turbine mortality during migration. The record leans toward GBIF (40 records) over iNaturalist (32), since this solitary, foliage-roosting bat is harder to photograph than to detect through acoustic or capture surveys along the wooded Platte and Missouri river corridors.
Records spike sharply in July (18 of the year’s 49 sightings, more than a third of the total), tracking peak summer maternity-colony activity, with the record going completely silent from November through March as the bat migrates south for winter.
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