{"id":900561,"date":"2026-10-31T02:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900561\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T02:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:02:09","slug":"oregon-looking-to-lockup-fourth-consecutive-bat-beauty-contest-winner-with-ryan-goswing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900561\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon looking to lockup fourth-consecutive bat beauty contest winner with ‘Ryan Goswing’"},"content":{"rendered":"

MEDFORD, Ore. \u2014 This could be the fourth year in a row that an Oregon bat wins the Bureau of Land Management’s Bat Beauty Contest. <\/p>\n

Oregon bat “Ryan Goswing” is taking on Batty White in a head-to-head contest. <\/p>\n

Voting is open today, Oct. 30, until 11 p.m. PT, on the BLM website. <\/a><\/p>\n

Ryan Goswing is a pallid bat. The pale-furred creature is native across North America, from western Canada to central Mexico. Pallid bats are best known for their large ears, which are critical for their ground-gleaning hunting.<\/p>\n

\"Hoary<\/p>\n

Hoary Potter, last year’s national winner (courtesy of BLM)<\/p>\n

Batty White and Ryan Goswing have already taken out other bat competitors, including Chappell Flown, Dolly Batton and Guano Reeves.<\/p>\n

READ ALSO: Hoary Potter dazzles, winning Oregon its third consecutive Bat Beauty Contest<\/a><\/p>\n

Ryan Goswing could be the fourth Oregon bat in a row to win the crown. Previous winners include Hoary Potter and the Guano of Fire (hoary bat, 2024), William ShakespEAR (Townsend\u2019s big-eared bat, 2023) and Barbara (canyon bat, 2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEDFORD, Ore. \u2014 This could be the fourth year in a row that an Oregon bat wins the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-900561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}