Survey of Selected Sites in Fremont, Ringgold, and Warren Counties in SouthernIowa for the Indiana Bat ('Myotis sodalis')

摘要

Bowles (1975) listed two records for the Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), afederally endangered species, in Iowa. The first record was from Dubuque County where three hibernating Indiana bats were found in Becker's Quarry Cave in 1959. The second record was from Jasper County near the town of Colfax in 1964. This was a male that had been banded in southern Missouri. Additional records for the Indiana bat in Iowa are listed by Bowles (1981). These records include an additional hibernation location in Dubuque County where two adult females were found in a small cave in April 1973, the capture of an adult male in Lousia County in October, and the presence of pregnant females and young in Marion County in the summer of 1977 and 1978. The Marion County records was the first evidence that Iowa is within the summer range of the Indiana bat.