Miniopterus schreibersii
Silhouette: T. Michael Keesey · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The common bent-wing bat (Miniopterus schreibersii), also known as the Schreibers's long-fingered bat or Schreibers's bat, is a species of insectivorous bat. They appear to have dispersed from a subtropical origin and distributed throughout the southern Palearctic, Ethiopic, Oriental, and Australian regions. In Europe, it is present in the southern half on the continent from Iberia to the Caucasus, with the largest populations found in the warmer Mediterranean area. The common and scientific names honor Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers.
There are 11 recognised subspecies of the common bent-winged bat: Miniopterus schreibersii schreibersii Miniopterus schreibersii blepotis Miniopterus schreibersii chinensis Miniopterus schreibersii dasythrix Miniopterus schreibersii eschscholtzii
Miniopterus schreibersii haradai Miniopterus schreibersii japoniae Miniopterus schreibersii orsinii Miniopterus schreibersii parvipes Miniopterus schreibersii smitianus Miniopterus schreibersii villiersi Three former subspecies that were included in M.scheibersii have now been given species status. They are Miniopterus pallidus (pale bent-wing bat), Miniopterus fuliginosus (eastern bent... Wikipedia →
Recording0:50
France · 2025
© Jean-François JULIEN · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0
Recording0:19
Spain · 2012
© Javier García - Oliva Mascarós · Observation.org, Nature data from around the World · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cévennes National Park | 🇫🇷 France |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Schreibers' Long-fingered Bat sighting in Cévennes National Park on a given day, based on 19 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 23rd most-seen of the 30 mammals we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Schreibers' Long-fingered Bat in Cévennes National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May, August–September and December, the lowest months. That is one of Cévennes National Park's wettest months, with about 170 mm of rain against 35 mm in July.
Between 2 and 5 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Schreibers' Long-fingered Bat sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Cévennes National Park, in our data
Cévennes National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Schreibers' Long-fingered Bat sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Chiroptera
The closest relatives of the Schreibers' Long-fingered Bat that you can see in Cévennes National Park (order Chiroptera, Bats) are Lesser Horseshoe Bat (about 20%), Common Pipistrelle (about 10%) and Daubenton's bat (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Schreibers' Long-fingered Bat is recorded against all the mammals logged in Cévennes National Park (19 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.
