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Daubenton's Bat

Myotis daubentonii

65,340Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
112Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan2,600
Feb2,740
Mar220
Apr103
May1,281
Jun3,871
Jul2,261
Aug48,054
Sep3,095
Oct146
Nov82
Dec621

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Dumfries and Galloway Scotland7,527
2Scottish Borders Scotland2,789
3Kent England2,703
4Devon England1,702
5Cambridgeshire England1,439
6North Yorkshire England1,363
7Surrey England1,280
8Cumbria England1,203
9West Lothian Scotland1,191
10Norfolk England1,157
11Oxfordshire England1,116
12Highland Scotland985
13Suffolk England928
14Cornwall England883
15Fife Scotland854
42,428 England18,162 Scotland3,739 Wales976 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 112 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
65,340
Peak month
August
Counties with records
112
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Myotis daubentonii
Group
Mammals
NBN Atlas records since 2000
65,531
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Convention on Migratory Species, Habitats Directive, Habitats Regulations (NI) 1995, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Scottish Biodiversity List, Habitats Regulations 2010
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Vespertilionidae
Genus
Myotis
Name with authority
Myotis daubentonii (Kuhl, 1817)
Described
1817
Contributing datasets
48

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q504488 · GBIF 2432439