2002. From the Bat Roost . The Bat House Researcher. Vol 10 , No 2:1

TITLE---[ From the Bat Roost ]
AUTHOR---[ Kiser, Mark and Selena ]
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VOLUME---[ 10 ]
NUMBER---[ 2 ]
ISSUE---[ Fall ]
YEAR---[ 2002 ]
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From the Bat Roost These are exciting times for bat house enthusiasts, with major achievements on several fronts. Endangered Indiana myotis colonies are, for the first time, using bat houses (see story at right). New artificial roosts are being tested, with encouraging results, for other at-risk species that don’t use traditional crevice-style bat houses. For example, Rafinesque’s big-eared bats and southeastern myotis in Georgia and North Carolina are using concrete roosts simulating hollow trees. And in Washington state, a colony of Townsend’s big-eared bats is using a new “bat cabin” and a rebuilt building that was hauled into place by truck. Watch for articles on these projects in upcoming issues of the Researcher. This issue reports on a unique bat house designed by an architect. It is home to a displaced colony of bats in New York. Need a winter project? Plans for a taller, wider, five-chamber nursery house are provided on page 7. You’ll find our annual survey results and data forms on pages 3-5. We hope you will take part in the 2002 survey. As a citizen-science project, the North American Bat House Research Project relies on your observations. The more data we receive, the better we will understand the needs of bats. Information gathered and shared by you, our Research Associates, is driving remarkable improvements in bat house success. Yet we still have much to learn. Have a safe winter, and we look forward to hearing from you. Happy batting, © Bat Conservation International, Inc., 2002. Absolutely no rights of distribution by sale or other transfer of ownership or by rental, lease or lending, preparation of derivitive works, or reproduction, in whole or in part, is granted. No text, graphics or photos may be downloaded and used on another Internet site, without express permission of BCI. BCI reserves the rights to actively protect against infringement.

From the Bat Roost

These are exciting times for bat house enthusiasts, with major achievements on several fronts. Endangered Indiana myotis colonies are, for the first time, using bat houses (see story at right). New artificial roosts are being tested, with encouraging results, for other at-risk species that don’t use traditional crevice-style bat houses. For example, Rafinesque’s big-eared bats and southeastern myotis in Georgia and North Carolina are using concrete roosts simulating hollow trees. And in Washington state, a colony of Townsend’s big-eared bats is using a new “bat cabin” and a rebuilt building that was hauled into place by truck. Watch for articles on these projects in upcoming issues of the Researcher.

This issue reports on a unique bat house designed by an architect. It is home to a displaced colony of bats in New York. Need a winter project? Plans for a taller, wider, five-chamber nursery house are provided on page 7. You’ll find our annual survey results and data forms on pages 3-5. We hope you will take part in the 2002 survey. As a citizen-science project, the North American Bat House Research Project relies on your observations. The more data we receive, the better we will understand the needs of bats. Information gathered and shared by you, our Research Associates, is driving remarkable improvements in bat house success. Yet we still have much to learn.

Have a safe winter, and we look forward to hearing from you.

Happy batting,

© Bat Conservation International, Inc., 2002. Absolutely no rights of distribution by sale or other transfer of ownership or by rental, lease or lending, preparation of derivitive works, or reproduction, in whole or in part, is granted. No text, graphics or photos may be downloaded and used on another Internet site, without express permission of BCI. BCI reserves the rights to actively protect against infringement.