Vespadelus darlingtoni

Large Forest Bat at Greenleigh, NSW

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Identification history

Vespadelus darlingtoni	10 Feb 2022	MPennay
Vespadelus sp. (genus)	7 Feb 2022	MPennay
Vespadelus regulus	7 Feb 2022	LyndalT

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User's notes

Strong upsweeping tail on the call and regular pulses Using kaleidoscope: characteristic at 38.4kHz see image for summary data

3 comments

MPennay wrote:

7 Feb 2022

hi Lyndal - it could be V. regulus or V. darlingtoni - please see my suggestion about loading your calls into a call analysis app

LyndalT wrote:

10 Feb 2022

Summary data from Kaleidoscope didn't save properly as an image. Here it is:
Fpmean: 18kHz Dur: 6.864ms
Fppeak: 17.952 kHz DBC: 102.921 ms
Fmax: 50.665 kHz Sc (average characteristic slope) 38.95 Octaves per sec
Fc (average characteristic frequency): 38.932 kHz
Fk (average knee frequency): 39.804 kHz Tk: 4.414 ms
Fmin: 38.652 kHz TBC 102.921 ms
Fmean: 40.789 kHz

MPennay wrote:

10 Feb 2022

Thanks Lyndal, it's too low for regulus so I'd go with Vespadelus darlingtoni

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Location information

Coordinates 149.250746 -35.365265
Places Greenleigh, NSW

Sighting information

1 Abundance
6 Feb 2022 08:52 PM Recorded on
LyndalT Recorded by
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Mammals Bats Microbats LyndalT Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

Unknown Gender
Alive / healthy Animal health

Species information

Vespadelus darlingtoni Scientific name
Large Forest Bat Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 799.17m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning

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