A bat a day for October (15): California Leaf-nosed Bat

The California Leaf-nosed Bat is a surprisingly big bat with a wingspan of 13-15"
Those ears are longer than an inch too!

Stokes Beginner Guide To Bats

These bats are at home in deserts.

These bats don't migrate or hibernate, but they do congregate in warm mines during winter and are less active during this time.

Stokes Beginner Guide To Bats

These guys are talented fliers and can hover in flight.
They forage very low to the ground and pluck insects from the ground and foliage.
They have very skilled hearing, picking up even the footsteps of crickets.

Combine all this with their keen vision and you have a deadly predator to insects.

https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Macrotus_californicus/
https://www.batcon.org/article/the-california-leaf-nosed-bat-sophisticated-desert-survivor/

From BCI:
"When roosting, this species is able to walk bipedally in a manner rare among American bats. While hanging from the ceiling, the bat swings each foot back in succession, bending its head at right angles toward the rear, so that it is looking straight ahead while walking backward–giving the appearance of walking forward!"

https://www.batcon.org/article/the-california-leaf-nosed-bat-sophisticated-desert-survivor/

They sometimes share roosting sites with Mexican Free-Tailed bats (also known as Brazilian free tailed bats, which I covered) they don't fight over resources as the free-tailed forages very high in the air.

The range of these bats.

Other bats:
Hoary Bat https://imgur.com/gallery/nfg7Uws
Brazilian Free-tailed Bat https://imgur.com/gallery/PWNDEyn
Yellow-Winged Bat https://imgur.com/gallery/QjJBJG0
Allen's Big Eared Bat https://imgur.com/gallery/moNEudp
Silver-haired Bat https://imgur.com/gallery/XY0MgXk
Siberian Bat https://imgur.com/gallery/V1ZwpBr
Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat https://imgur.com/gallery/3z9nK0T
Eastern Red Bat https://imgur.com/gallery/KHD4XIz
Spectral Bat https://imgur.com/gallery/EEX5WOd
Pallid Bat https://imgur.com/gallery/4g4H1OI
Yuma Bat https://imgur.com/gallery/0uLxmLZ
Northern Yellow Bat https://imgur.com/gallery/CuG69WU
Evening Bat https://imgur.com/gallery/84vMh2h
Fish-eating Myotis https://imgur.com/gallery/ILni1DE