Every one of Louisiana’s 89 tricolored bat records comes through GBIF rather than a photograph, meaning hibernaculum and cave surveys, not casual sightings, document everything known about this bat in the state. NatureServe rates the population S3, vulnerable, matching the species’ global IUCN Vulnerable status, both reflecting the steep declines white-nose syndrome has driven across much of this bat’s range since the disease appeared.
Records spread across the year without a dominant peak, August’s 14 sightings are the closest thing to a high point, and September dips to just 3, a scattered pattern consistent with a species surviving in small, dispersed numbers rather than concentrated colonies.
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