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Bats in bird nests in Australia: a review
Author(s) -
SCHULZ M.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
mammal review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.574
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1365-2907
pISSN - 0305-1838
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2907.1998.00026.x
Subject(s) - nest (protein structural motif) , bird nest , biology , threatened species , ecology , zoology , hirundo , near threatened species , habitat , predation , biochemistry
Bats (Microchiroptera) utilize few types of bird nests as roosts. Ten species of bats (Molossidae and Vespertilionidae) were recorded roosting in the enclosed bottle‐shaped mud nests of the Fairy Martin Hirundo ariel ; two species (Vespertilionidae) were located in the hanging nests of scrubwrens Sericornis spp. and the Brown Gerygone Gerygone mouki ; two species (Vespertilionidae) in the enclosed plant material nests of the Grey‐crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis and Fernwren Oreoscopus gutturalis ; and one species (Emballonuridae) was recorded in the open cup‐shaped nest of the White‐rumped Swiftlet Collocalia spodiopygius . No information was available on the importance of bird nests as breeding sites and only one species, the Chocolate Wattled Bat Chalinolobus morio , has been recorded hibernating in a nest. Bird nests in Australia provide roosting habitat for four threatened bats and may be important to the conservation of these species.