Eastern red bats roost singly in foliage and forage along forest edges, roads, and openings across South Carolina. Francis Marion provides extensive Coastal Plain forest, while Caesars Head and Table Rock represent cooler Upstate settings. At dusk, acoustic detectors are much more reliable than visual identification alone.
Reports appear in most months, with scattered highs in February, April, and June and none in July in this sample. With only a few dozen records, detector effort and chance encounters strongly influence the apparent seasonality.
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