Mexican free-tailed bats carry a NatureServe S4 apparently secure rank in Arkansas, and the record leans almost entirely on GBIF (59 of 62 records), meaning large-scale colony surveys, not casual sightings, document nearly everything known about this fast-flying, highly colonial bat here.
July alone accounts for 55 of the 62 records, close to 90 percent of the entire year’s total, an extraordinary concentration that almost certainly reflects a single large summer roost-count survey rather than any real seasonal explosion in the bat’s own activity; the record is nearly silent every other month.
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