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title: "Grijze grootoorvleermuis"
description: "Plecotus austriacus — Zoogdieren. The grey long-eared bat (Plecotus austriacus) is a fairly large European bat."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/grey-long-eared-bat
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Grijze grootoorvleermuis

> Plecotus austriacus — Zoogdieren. The grey long-eared bat (Plecotus austriacus) is a fairly large European bat.

- Scientific name: *Plecotus austriacus*
- Category: `mammals` (Zoogdieren)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 723
- Wikidata: [Q220958](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220958)
- iNaturalist taxon: [40415](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/40415)

## Names

- en: Grey Long-eared Bat
- de: Graues Langohr
- es: Murciélago orejudo gris u orejudo meridional
- fr: Oreillard Gris
- nl: Grijze grootoorvleermuis
- pt: Morcego-orelhudo-cinzento
- pl: Gacek szary

## Countries with the most observations

FR (146), ES (93), IT (56), PT (33), DE (30), UA (24), HU (21), PL (21), AT (20), BE (12), CZ (9), CH (6)

## Summary

The grey long-eared bat (Plecotus austriacus) is a fairly large European bat.  It has distinctive ears, long and with a distinctive fold.  It hunts above woodland, often by day, and mostly for moths.  In captivity, it has also been recorded to eat small lizards. It is extremely similar to the more common brown long-eared bat, and was only distinguished in the 1960s, but has a paler belly.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_long-eared_bat

## Photo

![Grijze grootoorvleermuis](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/grey-long-eared-bat/medium.jpg)

Photo: ben_wed · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/307010696

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/grey-long-eared-bat?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).