Evening bats sit in the middle of Virginia’s occasional tier for recorded mammals, with just 33 records and a percentile rank that reflects how close the state is to the northern edge of this southeastern species’ range. NatureServe still lists it as S4, apparently secure, in Virginia despite the relatively thin record count.
Reports are absent in January and February, with a single March record, then climb through June to an August peak. Evening bats are less tied to cave hibernation than many Virginia bats, and the winter gap in records likely reflects real seasonal inactivity or movement out of the area, not just a lull in survey effort.
All 33 records are research-grade iNaturalist observations, and GBIF carries 25 of the same sightings, so observers’ photos and recordings, not capture surveys, make up the Virginia record. James City County holds 11 of them and Colonial National Historical Park 4, putting the strongest cluster on the peninsula between the York and James rivers, where wooded edges and wetland margins suit the way evening bats forage.
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