Long-eared myotis carry noticeably larger ears than most of Oregon’s other small brown bats, an adaptation that helps them pick up faint echoes while hunting moths and beetles low over forest understory. Records split evenly between the Deschutes National Forest’s volcanic terrain and the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest’s dry eastern-Oregon canyons, showing this bat uses forest types on both sides of the Cascades.
Records concentrate almost entirely in July, ten times any other month, tracking peak summer maternity-roost activity when females and young are most active on the wing. NatureServe ranks the species S4, apparently secure, in Oregon, and its record relies mostly on GBIF specimen data over photographs, a fair reflection of a bat that’s active well after dark.
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