Name: Myotis nattereri Family: Vespertilionidae. Location: Not far from Münster, NRW, Germany
Date 14 October 2007
Source Personal photograph taken by Author, URL: Ex :: Natura - Freies Portal für Umweltbildung (Environmental Education)
Author Guido Gerding https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:XN
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XN_Myotis_Nattereri_96.jpg

Natterer's bat (Myotis nattereri) is a European vespertilionid bat with pale wings. It has brown fur tending to greyish-white on its underside. It is found across most of the continent of Europe, parts of the Near East and North Africa. It feeds on insects and other invertebrates which it catches on the wing or pursues on the ground. This bat was first described in 1817 by Heinrich Kuhl, who named it in honour of the Austrian naturalist Johann Natterer.
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Myotis
Species: Myotis nattereri (Kuhl, 1817)