HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: The brown long-eared bat is the third most common species in Northern Ireland after the soprano and common pipistrelles. It is not known when the species first colonised Ireland, but it was first recorded in the 19th century.

© Jon Russ 2001. Text refereed by Angela Ross & Lynne Rendle.

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