Vertebrates
Mammals
Bat Species
Mountain Beaver
Pacific Water Shrew
Townsend’s Mole
Birds
Barn Owl
Barn Swallow
Great Blue Heron, fannini subspecies
Marbled Murrelet
American Goshawk, laingi subspecies
Short-eared Owl
Western Screech-Owl, kennicottii subspecies
Amphibians
Coastal Giant Salamander
Coastal Tailed Frog
Northern Red-legged Frog
Oregon Spotted Frog
Western Toad
Reptiles
Common Sharp-tailed Snake
Painted Turtle, Pacific Coast Population
Fish
Nooksack Dace
Salish Sucker
Invertebrates
Insects
Dun Skipper
Grappletail
Johnson’s Hairstreak
Molluscs
Olympia Oyster
Oregon Forestsnail
Plants
Non-Vascular
Poor pocket moss
Vascular
Phantom orchid
Streambank lupine
Tall bugbane
Vancouver Island beggarticks
Ecological Communities
Arbutus
Coastal Douglas-fir
Coastal Sand Ecosystems
Coastal Western Hemlock

Bats are part of their own order called Chiroptera meaning “hand-wing” and are more related to primates than they are to rodents. All species of bats in Canada are insectivores and eat a variety of insects such as moths, mosquitoes, arachnids, leaf and plant hoppers, and beetles. In BC, there are 16 species of bats with five of them considered to be at-risk on the South Coast. While a significant threat is loss of habitats, predation by cats is a concern as well as the ongoing spread of white-nose syndrome.

The following are the at-risk bat species on the South Coast:

Little Brown Myotis (Myotis lucifugus)
Townsend’s Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus townsendii)
Hoary Bat (Lasiurus cinereus)
Silver-haired Bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans)
Yuma Myotis (Myotis yumanensis)

  • Hoary Bat
  • Little Brown Myotis
  • Bat boxes

These bats are species at risk. To find their current at-risk designation and listing info, visit the BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer. For direction on finding additional species recovery information, visit the Species and Ecological Communities Profiles Overview webpage.

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