Ghost-faced bats roost in caves by the thousands where they occur, and Texas’s records cluster around Big Bend, Guadalupe Mountains, and the Davis Mountains, limestone and rock country with the deep caves this species needs. Texas sits at the northern edge of a range centered mostly in Mexico, so the state’s population is a fringe outpost rather than a stronghold.
The 143 Texas records spike hard in August, with a smaller rise in December, and stay low the rest of the year, a pattern that likely tracks when observers visit known caves and roosts more than any real burst of bat activity. Texas lists the species S2, imperiled, well below its secure global rank, a reminder that a cave-roosting bat at the edge of its range can be locally scarce even where the species as a whole is doing fine.
