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Short-tailed bat colony

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Short-tailed bat colony

This colony of short-tailed bats in Ōmahuta State Forest in Northland used a crevice in a fallen kauri log as a roosting site.

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Veronika Meduna, Bats – Habitat, distribution and conservation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/9760/short-tailed-bat-colony (accessed 5 June 2026).

Story by Veronika Meduna, published 1 March 2009.