Bats around Houston

Houston, Texas, United States

Every measure here is worked out per 5 degree square, so this covers the wider area around Houston (25° to 30° latitude, -100° to -95° longitude, about 550 km across), not the city alone. Counts are shares of all bats records in the same weeks, so busier stations do not inflate them (methods).

Arrived in the last four weeks

No bats arrived here in these weeks last year, as far as the records show.

Expected in the next six weeks

No arrivals expected here in the next six weeks, going by last year.

Dates are last year's first regular records after at least six weeks away, with each species' own uncertainty on its page. Each species page can email you when it turns up.

Most recorded, last eight weeks

SpeciesRecordsPer 1,000
Mexican Free-tailed Bat Tadarida brasiliensis20,544275.9
Big Brown Bat Eptesicus fuscus8,389112.6
Evening Bat Nycticeius humeralis4,16255.9
Wagner's Bonneted Bat Eumops glaucinus2733.7
Eastern Red Bat Lasiurus borealis1261.7
Northern Yellow Bat Lasiurus intermedius380.5
Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis100.1
Silver-haired Bat Lasionycteris noctivagans100.1
Tricolored Bat Perimyotis subflavus50.1
Hoary Bat Lasiurus cinereus40.1
Pallid Bat Antrozous pallidus20.0

How well this area is covered

Watched in 12 of the last 12 weeks for bats (enough records to count; unwatched weeks say nothing about absence). Active stations here in the last 30 days: 32 BirdWeather. Add a station to fill the gap.