Northern hoary bat is a migrant through Texas, and its Trans-Pecos records at Big Bend National Park, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, and the Davis Mountains likely capture the species passing through rather than settling. It roosts alone in trees, never in colonies, which makes it one of the harder bats to survey consistently.
Texas reports show two peaks, April into May and again August into September, a pattern that lines up with spring and fall migration more than a single breeding season. That timing matters nationally: this species dies at wind turbines more than any other North American bat, and migratory pulses through Trans-Pecos wind country are exactly when those collisions cluster. With 201 records, Texas sits in the occasional tier among the state’s mammals, but NatureServe rates it Vulnerable (S3) here, a real step down from its secure global status and a sign that Texas’s slice of this wide-ranging species deserves closer attention than the national picture alone suggests.
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