The young free-tailed bats must also eventually leave their nursery.

Free-tailed bats are usually grey, brown, or black in color, with some exceptions.

The genus belongs to a group commonly referred to as free-tailed bats.

Bats there are, free-tailed bats, that I have watched for generations.

Free-tailed bats are more active in warm weather.

They started building bat houses five years ago, and now have about 1,700 free-tailed bats visiting their nine houses.

In the summer, the colony has up to 1.5 million Mexican Free-tailed Bats.

Mexican free-tailed bats are nocturnal foragers and begin feeding after dusk.

Mexican free-tailed bats use echolocation for navigation and detecting prey.

It uses a similar strategy to grab individual free-tailed bats from flying streams of bats.

Molossidae, or free-tailed bats, are a family of bats within the order Chiroptera.

Additionally, Mexican free-tailed bats are also efficient pollinators.

Every year, female free-tailed bats in Mexico leave their mates and fly eight hundred miles up to the southern United States.

Mexican free-tailed bats roost primarily in caves.

Mexican free-tailed bats are primarily insectivores.

Along the trail is Clarity Tunnel, home to a large colony of Free-tailed Bats.

Every year up to 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats make their home upon a platform beneath the Congress Ave Bridge.

The area is home to some of the largest colonies of bats in the world, including millions of Mexican free-tailed bats.

Large numbers of Mexican free-tailed bats fly hundreds of meters above the ground in Texas to feed on migrating insects.

The lure is a 5,000-year-old nightly ritual: the dramatic fly-in of thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats from their appointed rounds.

Carved by water erosion, the cavern is home to several million Mexican free-tailed bats who emerge at sunset during April through October.

Seventeen species of bats live in the park, including a large number of Mexican Free-tailed Bats.

African Free-tailed Bats (Myopterus) are a genus of bat in the family Molossidae.

Family Molossidae: free-tailed bats (cosmopolitan)

Free-tailed bats (molossids)

Otomops is a genus of bat in the family Molossidae.

Molossops greenhalli) is a South American bat species of the family Molossidae.

However, it is now universally placed as the only member of subfamily Tomopeatinae of family Molossidae.

Molecular data indicate Vespertilionidae diverged from Molossidae in the early Eocene period.

Family Molossidae: free-tailed bats (cosmopolitan)

The naked bulldog bat (Cheiromeles torquatus) does not belong to this family, but to the family Molossidae, the free-tailed bats.

The African giant free-tailed bat (Tadarida ventralis) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae.

The classification of the Blunt-eared Bat has historically been problematic; many authors placed it in the family Vespertilionidae, while others preferred the Molossidae.

The six families are: Pteropodidae, Emballonuridae, Hipposideridae, Rhinolophidae, Vespertilionidae and Molossidae.

The Mexican dog-faced bat (Cynomops mexicanus) is a bat species of the family Molossidae from Central America.

The bat families found in North America are Vespertilionidae, Molossidae, Antrozoidae, Mormoopidae and Phyllostomidae.

The bat genus Mormopterus belongs to a group commonly referred to as "free-tailed bats" (although that term can refer to any bat in the family Molossidae).

The Sierra Leone Free-tailed Bat (Mops brachypterus) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae.

New species of bonneted bat, genus Eumops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from the lowlands of western Ecuador and Peru.

Peters's Flat-headed Bat (Platymops setiger) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae, and belongs to the monotypic genus Platymops.

Handbuch der Säugetiere Europas, Volume 4: Fledertiere, Part II: Chiroptera II (Vespertilionidae 2, Molossidae, Nycteridae).

The western mastiff bat (Eumops perotis), also known as the western bonneted bat, the greater mastiff bat, or the greater bonneted bat, is a member of the free-tailed bat family, Molossidae.

Six families-Phyllostomidae, Vespertilionidae, Molossidae, Natalidae, Mormoopidae, and Noctilionidae-are widespread in the Caribbean and three others-Furipteridae, Thyropteridae, and Emballonuridae-are restricted to islands close to the South and Central American mainland.

In 1998, Nancy B. Simmons argued that Antrozoini was not, in fact, closely related to other Vespertilioninae and instead placed the two species in their own family, Antrozoidae, which she considered closer to the Molossidae, another family of bats.