#chalinolobus

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Hoary Wattled Bat Chalinolobus nigrogriseus

A bat from Australia and Papua New Guinea. Hoary Wattled Bats feed on insects including flies, moths, crickets, cicadas, and ants and spiders. They catch some prey in flight but can also land and crawl quickly after non-flying prey.

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#3129 - Chalinolobus gouldii - Gould's Wattled Bat 

Photo by Chloe Johnson on Wiki.

A Vesper bat named after the fleshy lobes at the corners of the mouth, and the English naturalist John Gould.

The largest of the genus Chalinolobus, and found across most of mainland Australia, excluding northern Cape York Peninsula and the Nullarbor Plain, but including Tasmania, as well as New Caledonia, and Norfolk Island.

They roost in stumps, hollow branches, bird nests, and the ceilings and basements of buildings. Births are usually twins.

Great Southern BioBlitz 2024, Wongan Hills - Christmas Rock

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Little Pied Bat Chalinolobus picatus

Found only in semi-arid woodlands in eastern Australia. It eats insects such as moths, beetles, wingless ants, cockroaches, stoneflies, katydids, crickets, cicadas, spiders, flies, termites and grasshoppers. They hunt mainly in the low and midrange areas of the canopy.

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