Safety note: May carry rabies — do not approach or handle.
The Southwestern Myotis is a medium-sized bat with long ears and a medium-length ear tragus, found in the mountain sky islands of Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. It roosts in mine tunnels and caves in mountain forests and forages over streams and forest clearings for flying insects. Its taxonomy overlaps with the Arizona myotis and has been subject to ongoing revision.
Habitat
Mountain pine-oak forests and canyon woodlands of the Southwest
Diet
Moths, beetles, and other flying insects
How common
Uncommon
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