Every one of South Carolina’s 46 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 peak in July (10 sightings) with a scattered pattern through the rest of the year and complete silence in May, August, and October, a gap that likely reflects survey timing at hibernacula and roost sites rather than any real seasonal absence, since this species doesn’t migrate far.
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