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Bats in Barra de Navidad, Mexico
Oh. Well, whoever/whatever entity it is that keeps changing the birds I have on my list to something else.š¤£Salvin's Big-eyed Bats is good enough for me and my curiosity. ;) -
Bats in Barra de Navidad, Mexico
Well, after re-reading the 'article', I realized that C. scopaeum is endemic to Western Mexico and was previously considered a ssp of C. salvini which is the bat associated with montane. So, this bat must be Chiroderma scopaeum? It's not good to be reading late when you're too tired to absorb... -
Bats in Barra de Navidad, Mexico
They are also on the range map. I didn't mean to suggest your ID was wrong, I'm sure that that is the bat, I was just a bit surprised when I read the montane bit. The 'paper' is about a paragraph long! There really isn't a whole lot to find on these bats. I never would have ID'd on my own... -
Bats in Barra de Navidad, Mexico
Did some reading on Leaf-nosed bats in general. Very interesting. -
Bats in Barra de Navidad, Mexico
I just got my camera's video properties working with my software again. Maybe I'll wander back to the site and try to get some flight videos. When I got near them, a half dozen or so flew out from the deserted building they were in, which is what alerted me to the roosting area. They seemed to... -
Bats in Barra de Navidad, Mexico
Thank-you so much. I think you're right. I did some googling; slim pickings. I did find this: Systematics of big-eyed bats, genus Chiroderma Peters, 1860 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) | Zootaxa In this tiny bit of knowledge, it's mentioned they are associated with montane forests. I... -
Bats in Barra de Navidad, Mexico
I thought it would be easy to ID these guys, but I'm not having much luck. I thought I had them a few times, but what I thought they might be were always (way) out of range. I didn't mean too, but I flushed them and I got a fairly good view of size. They almost looked like nightjars in wing...