Evening bats sit near the bottom of Virginia’s occasional tier for recorded mammals, with just 56 combined 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 vanish entirely from January through March, then climb through June and August. 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.
Records split close to evenly between iNaturalist (29) and GBIF (27), typical for a small brown bat plain enough that photographs and acoustic or capture surveys each contribute their share. The refuges and shoreline habitat tied to Virginia sightings, including Great Dismal Swamp and the Eastern Shore, fit the wooded edges and wetland margins evening bats forage over.
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