New Vespertilio murinus (Chiroptera) Winter Records. An Indication of Expansion of the Species’ Winter Range?
Journal: Vestnik Zoologii
Year: 2013

Absence of winter records, known long distance movements of parti-coloured bats ringed in North-eastern (NE) Europe, and some observations of seasonal concentrations of migrating animals had enabled to consider Vespertilio murinus, until quite recently, as a migratory species wintering outside Ukraine and NE Europe as a whole. During the last years the species had been found in the winter season (November - middle March) in Ukraine in 14 provinces and in the AR Crimea: contact records in 7 provi