Primera colonia de nóctulos medianos (Nyctalus noctula Schreber, 1774) en Castilla y León (Norte de España) ...

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Up to now, only five colonies of common noctule (Nyctalus noctula) have been recorded in the Iberian peninsula. They are located very distant from each other, in Navarra (two), Zaragoza, Lleida and Madrid. In September 2016 a male was trapped in the...

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Main Authors: Flechoso del Cueto, Manuel Fabio, Alonso, Daniel Fernández, Díaz de Cerio, Juan Tomás Alcalde
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2018
Subjects:
bat
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13461854
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13461854
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Summary:(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Up to now, only five colonies of common noctule (Nyctalus noctula) have been recorded in the Iberian peninsula. They are located very distant from each other, in Navarra (two), Zaragoza, Lleida and Madrid. In September 2016 a male was trapped in the Almazán's La Arboleda park (Soria), on the banks of the Duero river. In September too, nine roosts used by this species were identified by detecting their male social calls, eight in white poplars (Populus alba) and one in a black poplar (Populus nigra). All of them were observed in abandoned nests of Picidae. In June 2017, 23 indviduals were observed leaving another Picidae abandoned nest in a white poplar. Using mist-nets and harp-traps, three individuals were captured, all males. The obtained data allow us to deduce the presence of a group of sedentary males in this park, which are probably accompanied by females in the fall. This is the first colony of common noctule identified in Castilla y León and the ...