Common Noctule

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Common Noctule

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Nyctalus
Species: N. noctula
Binomial name
Nyctalus noctula
Schreber, 1774

The Common Noctule (Nyctalus noctula) is a species of bat common throughout Europe, Asia, and North Africa.

[edit] Echolocation

The Noctule uses two main call types for echolocation. The frequency parameters of the first call type lie between 26-47 kHz, have most energy at 27 kHz and have an average duration of 11.5 ms.[2] The frequency parameters of the second call type lie between 22-33 kHz, have most energy at 22 kHz and have an average duration of 13.8 ms.[2][3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Chiroptera Specialist Group (1996). Nyctalus noctula. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
  2. ^ a b Parsons, S. and Jones, G. (2000). "Acoustic identification of twelve species of echolocating bat by discriminant function analysis and artificial neural networks". J Exp Biol 203: 2641–2656. 
  3. ^ Obrist, M.K., Boesch, R. and Flückiger, P.F. (2004). "Variability in echolocation call design of 26 Swiss bat species: Consequences, limits and options for automated field identification with a synergic pattern recognition approach". Mammalia 68 (4): 307–32. doi:10.1515/mamm.2004.030. 
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