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Original source: From: Figure 1 of Popa-Lisseanu, A. G., Delgado-Huertas, A., Forero, M. G., Rodriguez, A., Arlettaz, R. & Ibanez, C. 2007. Bats' conquest of a formidable foraging niche: the myriads of nocturnally migrating songbirds. PLoS ONE 2(2): e205. URL: [1]
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Original source: From: Figure 1 of Popa-Lisseanu, A. G., Delgado-Huertas, A., Forero, M. G., Rodriguez, A., Arlettaz, R. & Ibanez, C. 2007. Bats' conquest of a formidable foraging niche: the myriads of nocturnally migrating songbirds. PLoS ONE 2(2): e205. URL: [1]
Permission: GNU Free Documentation License
Giant noctule
Order : Chiroptera
Family : Vespertilionidae
Subfamily : Vespertilioninae
Species : Nyctalus lasiopterus
The Giant noctule is listed as Near Threatened (Near Threatened (NT), is close to qualifying for or is likely to qualify for a threatened category in the near future, or LR/nt), is close to qualifying for or is likely to qualify for a threatened category in the near future, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Countries
Algeria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and Uzbekistan
Facts about the giant noctule
De grote rosse vleermuis (Nyctalus lasiopterus) is de grootste vleermuis van het Europese continent. (Full text)
Additional to them, the occurrence of Nyctalus lasiopterus is probable, a species that has been observed visually but was never captured. (Full text)
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