Missouri’s 28 records for the silver-haired bat all come from GBIF, not a single iNaturalist sighting. That split makes sense: this bat roosts alone under loose bark and flies at night, so it mostly turns up in mist-net surveys and museum specimens rather than photos. Mingo National Wildlife Refuge, Big Oak Tree State Park, and Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge are all river-bottom and wetland forest, the kind of tree cover and open water this species forages and roosts around.
Records cluster in October, with smaller rises in April and February. Those months line up with spring and fall migration, when the bat is moving and more likely to be netted, not because it’s more common in Missouri then. NatureServe ranks it S3, Vulnerable, in the state even though it’s secure across its range, so Missouri’s population carries more weight than the national G4 rank suggests.
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