Bats

While COVID-19 did not impact our other wildlife work this spring and summer, it did halt most of our bat research.  We were not able to handle any bats for fear of transmitting COVID-19 to them [...]

For the last few years, the spring months are a mix of worry and excitement as we focus our attention on maternity season for the rare Northern Long-eared Bat (Northerns) we study and their [...]

Many bats who develop white-nose syndrome face the same rude awakening. Stirred from their slumber by a fungal infection on their bodies, they emerge into a harsh winter landscape where the [...]

Northern long-eared bats have foregone the Batz Carlton, a fancy hibernation space that Simon Hickman built for them in April, opting instead for the same unfinished cinderblock basement on his [...]