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Natterer's Bat

Myotis nattereri

13,257Records since 2000
FebruaryPeak month
84Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan3,274
Feb3,316
Mar302
Apr75
May489
Jun1,991
Jul659
Aug911
Sep842
Oct261
Nov99
Dec788

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Dumfries and Galloway Scotland1,159
2Kent England1,053
3Cambridgeshire England525
4Surrey England515
5Oxfordshire England456
6Somerset England453
7Lincolnshire England348
8Dorset England336
9Scottish Borders Scotland333
10Denbighshire Wales326
11Devon England252
12Carmarthenshire Wales252
13Suffolk England236
14South Lanarkshire Scotland202
15Pembrokeshire Wales195
9,074 England2,664 Scotland1,462 Wales36 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 84 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
13,257
Peak month
February
Counties with records
84
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Myotis nattereri
Group
Mammals
NBN Atlas records since 2000
13,280
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 nattereri (Kuhl, 1817)
Described
1817
Contributing datasets
36

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q723123 · GBIF 2432389