Good day,
In November 2015 we went to Namibia. In Etosha National Park we could take a picture of a bat, hanging in a tree. We are not experts in bats but we think this might be a Schlieffen’s Twilight Bat. Can someone help us to identify this species of bat?
Thank you
Kind regards
Jean-Philippe
Belgium
I found the rodent pictured below underneath a piece of plywood on an abandoned railroad track near my home...
Another report from Sjef Ollers. Arizona, 2017: Sjef Ollers, 2.5 weeks & 33 species including Mexican Long-tongued Bat, White-nosed...
I spent Friday afternoon at a meeting on Planetary Health. It was interesting. But mainly terrifying. As we all know...
Hi all It’s simple to find the law about small mammal trapping in the UK, but I’m not doing...
Hi all, For anyone visiting France, here is a great site to see European Otter. Stéphane Raimond, a former...
For anyone who has been contemplating visiting Deramakot following Jason & James Woolgar’s and Jon, Jean-Michel and I’s reports… here...
Hello all, I’m new to the mammalwatching world, mostly a birder in the past, but I’m broadening my horizons....
Genetically Welsh, spiritually Australian, currently in New York City. I've lived and worked in London, Canberra, Paris and Lusaka, and visited about 100 countries.
I am not at home, so don’t have my books, but glancing over the Namibia species list and then a quick use of Google Image (which can be untrustworthy for bats) it appears you have a Commerson’s Leaf-nosed Bat, Hipposideros marungensis.
I also think it looks like a Hipposideros. Hipposideros taxonomy was reworked a few years back, so now Commerson’s is endemic to Madagascar. The possible candidates for Etosha would be H. caffer and H. vittatus. Perhaps it is H. vittatus (doesn’t look like H. caffer to me).
Yes pretty sure its H vittatus (Still known as Commerson’s Bat even if H commersoni is restricted now to Madagascar
That’s indeed Hipposideros vittatus (formerly synonymized under H. commersonii, and H. marungensis being a proper synonym of H. vittatus.
These are probably migratory bats, and we’d appreciated seeing this observations shared with the AfriBats project on iNaturalist at http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/afribats