Photo 277003, (c) Todd Jackson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Todd Jackson

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What

Mexican Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis)

Observer

todd_jackson

Date

March 18, 2013 05:20 PM CDT

Description

This poor little guy was dead when we found him under the bridge. Observed while collecting stream macroinvertebrates with Elizabeth Welch from Austin Youth River Watch. Since there's a pretty good general consensus that bats on the ground are not good to pick up we left him in place, and my photos might not be ideal, but later while getting ready to post them here I noticed a whitish patch on his nose. It doesn't look like the images of white-nose syndrome that I have seen online, but I'm not really sure what I should be looking for. If you know what to look for then check out the close up of the head. Also, some guy got in the paper a day or two ago because he was exposed to a bat that apparently tested positive for rabies. Don't know where that was, but it was in Austin.

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