ID on BAT!!!

[D-WALT]

ME and my Girlfriend where walking down the road to the bridge over a highway at my house and we heard a noise and i found a small i believe to be a juvenile! but i wondered what type it was?

i know its just a ordinary bat found in NC but i live Kings Mountain if you want to map the location!!

and one more thing my hand is 8" long i believe the bat was right at 3" or less!

 

[Noto]

It is a baby; it must have fallen from its perch. It's not really identifiable from the photos.

 

[haynchinook334]

A baby GRAY BAT

 

[Noto]

Very unlikely. Gray bats are seldom seen in North Carolina and do not breed in man-made structures; they only use caves, and only a few of those, which is part of the reason they are considered an endangered species.

 

[haynchinook334]

Very unlikely. Gray bats are seldom seen in North Carolina and do not breed in man-made structures; they only use caves, and only a few of those, which is part of the reason they are considered an endangered species.

Yeah....just read a thing about that. Mostly gray bats are found in Florida.... But rare.

http://bcwaller.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/bats-in-north-carolina/

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Looks almost like a member of the Free-tailed Bat family.

 

[Noto]

It does have that pit-bull-headed look that freetails have, but so do some vespertilionids when young (especially big brown bats). I can't tell if the tail is free or not. I don't think freetails are known to breed in NC, but you never know. Lots of things are shifting their ranges poleward these days.

Haynchinook- Gray bats are a karst (cave-bearing limestone) associated species. There are some in the north Florida/south Georgia karst region, but most populations are associated with three big karst formations: the Interior Highlands in Arkansas and Missouri, and the Mississippian and Cumberland plateaus in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama.