All 329 of Tennessee’s tricolored bat records come through GBIF; there aren’t any iNaturalist entries in this dataset at all. That split points to formal hibernacula and mist-net surveys rather than casual public sightings, the kind of targeted monitoring biologists run because white-nose syndrome has hit this species hard in the state’s cave systems.
December alone accounts for the single highest monthly count, likely reflecting winter cave surveys when bats cluster in known roosts and are easiest to count. A second, broader rise builds through March and April as bats become active again before dispersing for summer. NatureServe ranks the species S2, imperiled, in Tennessee, so this record total shouldn’t be read as a secure population.
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