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bat species ID ?

Seems Plecotus Genus probably P. auritus brown long-eared bat or common long-eared bat.
 
It looks like Plecotus auritus (gewone grootoor), but where did uou take this photo?

The tragus is completely light, but I am still puzzled by the snout, which seems quite dark and that is characteristic for P. austriacus (grijze grootoor)
 
I found this specimen in front of a coffee-shop in the middle of Tilburg and it was alive but in a kind of shock ( due to hot weather that day ). I gave it some drops of water and it recovered. In an empty room I took the photo and there-afther I put it in an empty birdnesting-box in a wood near Tilburg.
 
In that case it is definetly Plecotus auritus ;). Presumably a young animal, I just learned that juvenile P. auritus have a dark nose too ;).

I hope you did not touch the animal with bare hands, as every bat is a potential carrier of rabies. Although in the Netherlands it is only proved in Eptesicus serotinus and Myotis dasycnene, Laatvlieger and Meervleermuis.
 

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