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Gotham Bat Conservancy; Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation; North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) NABat strives to "create a continent-wide program to monitor bats at local to rangewide scales that will provide reliable data to promote effective conservation decisionmaking and the long-term viability of bat populations across the continent."
A bat named Peekaboo at Bat World Sanctuary Bat World Sanctuary was founded in 1994 as a non-profit rescue-rehabilitation center and sanctuary operated exclusively for bats . Based in North Texas with rescue centers around the world, the organization is "dedicated to educating the community about bats to dispel myths and encourage conservation ...
The Devil's Sinkhole is a vertical natural bat habitat. The 40-by-60-foot (12.2 m × 18.3 m) opening drops down to reveal a cavern some 400 feet (122 m) below. While likely known to native peoples, the cavern was first discovered in modern times by Ammon Billings, a local rancher leading a scouting party of five, west of Hackberry Creek in ...
Bat Conservation International (BCI) is an international nongovernmental organization working to conserve bats and their habitats through conservation, education, and research efforts. BCI was founded in 1982 by bat biologist Merlin Tuttle , who led the organization until his retirement in 2009. [ 2 ]
Bats emerging from Bracken Cave on the evening of 17 June 2017. Bracken Cave is a cave located in southern Comal County, Texas, outside the city of San Antonio.The 100-foot (30 m)-wide crescent shaped opening to the cave lies at the bottom of a sinkhole, formed when the roof of the cave collapsed.
Millie Hill bat cave (also known as Millie Mine bat cave) is an abandoned iron mine in Iron Mountain, Michigan that is now one of the largest bat breeding colonies in North America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The vertical mine shaft is blocked by a steel grate, which prevents entry by humans but allows bats to enter and exit freely. [ 4 ]
The bridge was known as the Congress Avenue Bridge from the construction of the first span across the Colorado River at that location in the late 19th century until November 16, 2006, when the Austin City Council renamed the current bridge in honor of Ann W. Richards, the 45th Governor of Texas and a long-term resident of Austin.
The Great Lakes Bat Festival was an annual two-day event that started in 2002 and began in the Great Lakes region. [1] The festival later expanded to different state divisions, which included the Illinois Bat Festival, [2] the Indiana State University Bat Festival, [3] [4] [5] the Minnesota Bat Festival, [6] and the Wisconsin Bat Festival. [3]