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Species
Least Concernbrown long-eared bat
Plecotus auritus
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderChiroptera
- FamilyVespertilionidae
Maximum longevity: 30 years (wild)
via GBIF · IUCN
Bird sounds
- echolocation· Sweden· quality A
- echolocation· Sweden· quality A
- social call· Netherlands· quality A
- echolocation, social call· Netherlands· quality A
via Xeno-canto
Wikidata facts
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- Plecotus auritus
- taxon common name
- gacek brunatny
- wingspan
- 0.254
- longest observed lifespan
- 30
- short name
- P. auritus
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Article
The brown long-eared bat or common long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) is a small Eurasian insectivorous bat. It has distinctive ears, long and with a distinctive fold. It is extremely similar to the much rarer grey long-eared bat, which was only validated as a distinct species in the 1960s. An adult brown long-eared bat has a body length of 4.5–4.8 cm, a tail of 4.1–4.6 cm, and a forearm length of 4–4.2 cm. The ears are 3.3–3.9 cm in length, and readily distinguish the long-eared bats from most other bat species. They are relatively slow flyers compared to other bat species.
The brown long-eared bat outstretches its ears before takeoff.