Southeastern myotis is a bat of the wet lowland South, roosting in caves, hollow trees, and under bridges near swamps and slow rivers, and its Texas records sit in Big Thicket, Davy Crockett, and Sabine National Forest, the Piney Woods corner of East Texas where that kind of wet, forested habitat actually exists.
The 44 Texas records spread fairly evenly across the year, with small upticks in January, February, April, and June rather than one dominant month, which reads more like scattered, opportunistic finds than a real seasonal signal. Texas ranks the species S3, vulnerable, a state-specific concern that its secure global status doesn’t capture, and with so few records statewide, that vulnerable listing looks like a genuine reflection of how thin the Texas population is, not just under-reporting.
