The bat families found in North America are Vespertilionidae, Molossidae, Mormoopidae and Phyllostomidae.
The Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge, which crosses over Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, is the world's largest urban bat colony.
[1] It has been estimated that the population of Mexican free-tailed bats once numbered in the millions but has declined drastically in modern times.
Hawai'i named the Hawaiian hoary bat as the official state land mammal in April 2015.
[3] In 2020, the big brown bat was designated the official state mammal of the District of Columbia.