Northern hoary bats carry a NatureServe S3 vulnerable rank in New Jersey that matches a global G3 rating, reflecting a species under pressure continent-wide, largely from wind-turbine collision mortality during migration. All 10 of the state’s records come from iNaturalist; GBIF carries 6 of those same observations but no specimens, so what’s known here traces entirely to people photographing or detecting the bat directly.
Records are thin, a July peak of 4 sightings followed by 3 in September and 2 in October, too sparse to describe a confident seasonal pattern beyond a July cluster during the summer breeding season and a few fall records as the bat heads south.
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