Mammals
Bats

Bats

Add a sighting Subscribe View significant View unverified

Bats

Microbats
Flying Foxes & Other Megabats

Moderators

Liam.m
MartinPredavec
MPennay
Wildlifewarrior80
become a moderator

Announcements

Canberra Nature Map's Newsletter for June 2025
Yesterday

Hello everyone. Alison Milton has produced the June quarterly CNM newsletter. It has some interesting information about what the Nature Mappers have been doing and finding. We hope you enjoy the read....

Continue reading

Known issue affecting NatureMapr mobile app 6.3.0

NatureMapr Mobile App Update

Platform consolidation and impact to regional functionality

Improvements to Search

Discussion

MPennay wrote:
28 May 2025
Batty and Betty are either Vespadelus vulturnus or V. regulus.
Both species look very similar and are among the smallest mammals in Australia.
Vespadelus sp. (genus)
LisaH wrote:
27 May 2025
:))
Vespadelus sp. (genus)
HelenCross wrote:
27 May 2025
Batty and Betty are very cute :)
Vespadelus sp. (genus)
arjay wrote:
24 May 2025
I do have other photos. Is there anything specific that you need to give a better ID?
This bat had landed in a shallow bowl and it couldn't actually take off flying from this position. It was taken outside.
The person who caught them has absolutely no taxonomic qualifications whatsoever so no ID from them.
Vespertilionidae (family)
arjay wrote:
24 May 2025
No background. The bat was being evicted from a house. Normally we leave them alone and they make their own way out. Or not. Sometimes they get themselves into impossible positions where they can't take off so in that case we very carefully take them outside.
The general area is dry sclerophyll forest with some cleared grassland that is reverting via ti tree and wattles to a forested state.
Chalinolobus gouldii

Top contributors

Top moderators

829,653 sightings of 22,847 species from 14,355 members
CCA 3.0 | privacy
NatureMapr is developed by at3am IT Pty Ltd and is proudly Australian made