Northern hoary bat has only 14 recorded sightings in Minnesota, all from iNaturalist, loosely clustered around Superior National Forest, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, and Voyageurs National Park in the Arrowhead. As Canada’s smaller, boreal-adapted counterpart to the widespread hoary bat, it roosts solitary in conifer foliage, a habit that keeps it out of the colony counts other bats show up in.
With records this sparse, spread thinly across the warmer months, the state doesn’t have enough data to describe a real seasonal pattern, which is why this overlay flags timing as unresolved. NatureServe has not yet assigned the species a Minnesota rank, though its global G3 rank signals real vulnerability across its range.
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