Volume 4, Number 5 - May 2006            Current Circulation: 16190 Return to Archive
Bats in the News
The rural countryside around Geneseo, Illinois, seems to be developing into a delightful place for bats. The Moline Dispatch of Illinois recently reported that a bat-information community meeting brought nothing but high praise for the flying mammals, and a local group is building and distributing bat houses for just $10 apiece ...more

Paper, Pencils & Flying Foxes
Take a few hundred youngsters, stir in some unsuspected facts and, for spice, toss in a colorful video in their own language, then add some paper and colored pencils. Top it off with a few prizes, and you’ve got a hard-to-beat recipe for bat conservation.

Two conservation groups in Madagascar found that teacher training in “Bats and the Environment,” coupled with visits to remote schools and a popular bat-poster contest, magnified their message well beyond children...more


Last Chance for a Workshop
A few spaces are still open for this summer’s BCI Bat Conservation and Management Workshops. These hands-on field workshops offer a unique experience to learn about bat and bat conservation not only through lectures from experts, but actually by actually mist-netting and examining bats of varied species ...more
 
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Lasiurus borealis
Eastern red bats are North America's most abundant tree bats....more

Bat Fact: Did you know...a single little brown bat can catch 1,200 mosquitoes-sized insects in just one hour.
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