Media Category: Wildlife

Mexican Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) emerging from Frio Cave Near Concan in the Texas Hill Country, U.S.A. This cave is the second largest bat cave for this species in the world and contains between 10 to 15 million bats, mostly females who have come to give birth. When the pups are born the numbers are much higher.

The big brown bat—shown here hibernating—is one of the largest bats in CVNP (Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Jon Yenulonis

The small Indiana bat is a federally endangered species (Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Red bats migrate long distances for the winter (Photo: Chris Harshaw, CC BY-SA 3.0)