Northern hoary bats carry a NatureServe S3 vulnerable rank in West Virginia that matches a global G3 rating, a species under pressure continent-wide from wind-turbine collision mortality during migration. All 13 of the state’s records come from iNaturalist, with only 5 of those also logged in GBIF, meaning casual sightings, not specimen surveys, drive what’s known here.
Records cluster entirely in early-to-mid summer, May through July account for all but one of the 13 sightings, with July alone carrying 6, fitting the window when this solitary, foliage-roosting bat is present for the breeding season before it heads south; the record goes completely silent outside that four-month window.
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