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From: Rick Wallace City: North Aurora, IL
Hello, I have a small gray bat hanging from a maple tree leaf. It looks like a mouse in size adn color. I'm wondering what kind of bat this might be.
	Extension Message From: Laura Kammin Visiting Extension Specialist, Pollution Prevention Extension-Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program lkammin@illinois.edu
The Bat Conservation International website provides good pictures of bats: http://www.batcon.org/index.php/all-about-bats/species-profiles.html as well as lots of great information about bat conservation. We have 12 species of bats in Illinois. You can find more information about them at: http://web.extension.illinois.edu/wildlife/directory_show.cfm?species=bat
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