Critically Endangered
Canary big-eared bat
Plecotus teneriffae
The Canary long-eared bat, also known as the Canary big-eared bat or Tenerife long-eared bat, is a vesper bat endemic to the Canary Islands.
Appearance
When Hamilton described it as a new species, he noted that it was similar in appearance to the brown long-eared bat, Plecotus auritus, but that it had "much larger wings." The Canary long-eared bat, also known as the Canary big-eared bat or Tenerife long-eared bat, is a vesper bat endemic to the Canary Islands.
Range and habitat
The Canary long-eared bat, also known as the Canary big-eared bat or Tenerife long-eared bat, is a vesper bat endemic to the Canary Islands.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
According to the IUCN, it is critically endangered. It is evaluated as critically endangered by the IUCN. It meets the criteria for this designation because its estimated area of occurrence is less than 3,000 km2 (1,200 mi2), it is found in fewer than five locations, its population is declining, and it is losing habitat.
It is threatened by habitat loss due to deforestation, use of pesticides near forest habitat, and loss of roosting sites due to building renovation. The remaining population is estimated to number between 500 and 2000.
Canary big-eared bat is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Canary long-eared bat, Wikidata item Q123100. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
