Pteronotus mesoamericanus
Silhouette: T. Michael Keesey · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
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Mexico · 2024
© Juan Cruzado Cortés · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calakmul Biosphere Reserve | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Mesoamerican Common Mustached Bat sighting in Calakmul Biosphere Reserve on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 18th most-seen of the 19 mammals we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April and July
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Mesoamerican Common Mustached Bat in Calakmul Biosphere Reserve on a given day, against under 5% in June and August–March, the lowest months. Those are among Calakmul Biosphere Reserve's driest months, with about 40 mm of rain a month against 130 mm in June.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Mesoamerican Common Mustached Bat sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
Only Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, in our data
Calakmul Biosphere Reserve is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Mesoamerican Common Mustached Bat sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Chiroptera
The closest relatives of the Mesoamerican Common Mustached Bat that you can see in Calakmul Biosphere Reserve (order Chiroptera, Bats) are Greater Sac-winged Bat (about 20%), Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat (about 10%) and Big-eared Woolly Bat (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Mesoamerican Common Mustached Bat is recorded against all the mammals logged in Calakmul Biosphere Reserve (5 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
