Montana’s long-legged myotis record is thin: just 4 records, one each from Sanders, Lewis and Clark, Fergus, and Hill counties. That handful still spans the state, from the forested ranges of the northwest, the country this bat is best known for, out to Fergus and Hill counties on the plains, where island ranges and timbered breaks rise above the grassland.
Four points can’t map a range, and they say more about where someone ran nets and detectors than about where the bat lives: 4 records across 4 counties leaves most of a very large state unexamined.
The records fall in June, July, October, and December, one apiece, so there’s no seasonal pattern to read. NatureServe ranks the species vulnerable in Montana.
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