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Lesvos – June 2017

10th November 2017 By Rachel Bates

Lesvos is the third biggest Greek island, so on our second trip here we concentrated on the southern and eastern parts of the island. There was such a contrast between the two halves of the island! Forests were much more common, mostly of pine and oak, and the landscape was much more vegetated. This also meant that finding some of the cave locations was challenging as there was often a lot of spikey vegetation between us and it…

We had a curiosity on this trip in the form of a Myotis species that seemed to have characteristic features from two different species, so we are looking forward to receiving the DNA analysis results from the wing punches taken. And after five trips of catching fragments of Mehely’s horseshoe’s echolocating, we finally caught some that were roosting in a cave with several other species of bat.

Our species list for Lesvos, from both trapping and sound recordings, included:

Common pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus
Kuhl’s pipistrelle Pipistrellus kuhlii
Savi’s pipistrelle Hypsugo savii
Greater mouse-eared Myotis myotis
Long-fingered bat Myotis capaccinii
Whiskered Myotis mystacinus sp.
Greater horseshoe Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
Mehely’s horseshoe Rhinolophus mehelyi
Lesser horseshoe Rhinolophus hipposideros
Blasius’ horseshoe Rhinolophus blasii
Geoffroy’s bat Myotis emarginatus
Leisler’s Nycatlus leisleri

 

Mehely’s Horseshoe

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