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Bats of Tennessee

• Little Brown Bat
• Southeastern Bat
• Gray Bat
• Northern Long-eared Bat
• Indiana Bat
• Eastern Small-footed Bat
• Tri-colored Bat
• Big Brown Bat
• Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat
• Townsend's Big-eared Bat
• Eastern Red Bat
• Seminole Bat
• Hoary Bat
• Silver-haired Bat
• Evening Bat
• Brazilian Free-tailed Bat

Related Links

• Bat Conservation International
• Southeastern Bat Diversity Network
• Alabama Bat Working Group
• Georgia Bat Working Group
• The Nature Conservancy of TN
• National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
• Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service WNS Page
• NSS White Nose Syndrome Page
• Southeastern Cave Conservancy, Inc.
• Tennessee Cave Survey, Inc.
• American Cave Conservation Association
• TN Natural History Inventory Program

TNBWG Citizen Science Project

The TNBWG is coordinating a state-wide summer maternity roost monitoring program. This program uses emergence counts and multi-state coordination to investigate emerging wildlife health threats. The goals of the survey are to: Gather base line information on summer colonies; evaluate the impact of WNS on summer colonies; and correlate long term trends of Tennessee bats.

If you are interested in participating in this program, please read through the Summer Bat Roost Registration Forms and Volunteer Survey Guidance.

The text for the Bat Facts and Bat Description pages of this website were taken with permission from the Bats of the Eastern United States poster. Acknowledgements for that poster read: Bats of the Eastern United States was prepared by Troy L. Best (Department of Zoology and Wildlife Science and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University, Alabama), J. Scott Altenbach (Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque), and Michael J. Harvey (Department of Biology, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville). R. R. Currie (United States National Biological Service, Asheville, North Carolina) and K. Sutton (Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Little Rock) generously provided permission to reproduce parts of Bats of the Eastern United States by M. J. Harvey (published by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and Tennessee Technological University, 46 pp., 1992). W.M. Kiser, and R. S. Lishak reviewed an early draft of the manuscript.