Species Detail - Brown Long-eared Bat (Plecotus auritus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "National Lesser Horseshoe Bat Database".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Plecotus auritus
Brown Long-eared Bat
NBNSYS0000005102 UnverifiedUnverified
Protected Species: EU Habitats Directive || Protected Species: EU Habitats Directive >> Annex IV || Protected Species: Wildlife Acts
plaur
(Linnaeus, 1758)
terrestrial mammal
Species
8
6
4
12/01/1993
12/06/2012
3 January (recorded in 2022)
20 December (recorded in 2007)
National Parks & Wildlife Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, National Lesser Horseshoe Bat Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Brown Long-eared Bat (Plecotus auritus), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/127/Species/119278>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)