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A Bat-Box Building World Record
I would like to provide you with a little update! Bat Week, a collaboration of multiple partners, ran from October 25-31. You may recall there was a bat-box building challenge…
Bat Citizen Science Opportunities
Would you like to be a citizen scientist and report your bat sightings? If so, there are a number of ways for you to get involved! If you live in…
Bat Week Is Coming!
There’s no denying that fall is here! That means it’s time to start thinking about Bat Week (October 25-31). Host a bat-box building session on Halloween and help establish a…
How Bats Contribute to Science
[PHOTO CREDIT: TOM LUSK] Today I am exploring some of the ways bats have contributed to science. Bats have inspired several scientific advancements for humans, such as navigational aids for…
Winter Bat Surveys Are Finished And The Results Aren’t Good
[We had to clamber over ice formations to get into this cave. Photo Credit: KJ Vanderwolf] We have finished our bat surveys for the winter and only found 12…
Winter Bat Surveys Are Almost Finished
We were recently in the news! We have almost finished our winter bat surveys and found only 12 bats so far. Some of these were visibly infected with white-nose syndrome,…
A White-Nose Syndrome Documentary
The documentary about our white-nose syndrome project that I described in a January 28, 2014 blog post can now be viewed here! The documentary was profiling projects that have been supported…
Winter Bat Counts Begin
[Jordi Segers searching in vain for hibernating bats. PHOTO CREDIT: KJ Vanderwolf] We have started our winter bat counts in New Brunswick caves and mines and we were joined for…
It’s Bat Appreciation Day!
Here to celebrate is guest blogger, Jordi Segers, National White Nose Syndrome Coordinator at the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative. You might think to yourself: “why is there such a thing…
A Bat Talk & More!
This past Sunday I gave a bat talk to a group in Shediac, New Brunswick. Everyone was excited to learn new things and to pick up a bat box! If…
