Bats of Colorado - Colorado Division of Wildlife

Big brown bat	Long-legged myotis
Big free-tailed bat	Pallid bat
Brazilian free-tailed bat	Red bat
California myotis	Silver-haired bat
Eastern pipistrelle	Spotted bat
Fringed myotis	Townsend's big-eared bat
Hoary bat	Western pipistrelle
Little brown bat	Western small-footed myotis
Long-eared myotis	Yuman myotis

Authors

David M. Armstrong, Rick A. Adams, Kirk W. Navo, Jerry Freeman and Steven J. Bissell

Department of Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology and University of Colorado Museum,

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0334 (DMA);

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI 53190-1790 (RAA);

Colorado Division of Wildlife, 0722 S. Road 1E, Monte Vista, CO 81144 (KWN);

University of Colorado Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0218 (JF)

Additional Information

Anyone fascinated by nature or biology should not be without Bats of the Rocky Mountains West, available through the Division of Wildlife's online store. This full-color, 289-page book is the result of two decades of extensive research and includes the behavior and ecology of 31 species of bats found in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. It includes a general discussion of bat biology and evolution as well as regional physiography and zoogeography. This beautifully illustrated field guide includes distribution maps, color photographs and contains a handy glossary. By Rick Adams, Associate Professor of the University of Northern Colorado and president of the Colorado Bat Society.

Note: The Bats of Colorado publication is currently out of print.

Last Updated: 7/15/2009