Alberta Community Bat Program

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Alberta Community Bat Program. Promoting bat conservation, stewardship & education. A program of WCS Canada (Wildlife Conservation Society Canada).

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See www.albertabats.ca/communityscience for details on how to participate and how to contribute data! 🦇🧪🌎

In Alberta, we have had really great response to our #CommunityScience Project along the main urban corridor between Edmonton and Calgary. But we would LOVE to see the corners and the "inbetweens" get involved as well! All you need is a bat house or know of a bat roost that you can count to join!

What have we been learning from our #CommunityScienceProject? From the data (read bat poop) collected, we've found out which species are most often found in bat houses in Alberta. Little Brown Myotis are vulnerable to white-nose syndrome. Will our populations decline? #KeepCounting #AlbertaBats

It's that time of year again! Are you part of our community science project? Do you have a bat box? Or a bat roost you can count? You can register any kind of bat roost. Just count & send in the data to the program coordinator. Instructions are on our website. www.albertabats.ca/communityscience 🧪🌎🦇

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. Red Bat moms incredibly raise up to four babies per litter (most bats only give birth to a single pup per litter). Incredible bats. They are rare in Alberta but a valued part of our bat biodiversity. 🧪🦇🌎

How loud are bats? Spent a minute with a silver-haired bat to learn more! (and feel free to subscribe to our channel) youtu.be/nksKxitKiqk?...

How Loud Are They?youtu.be Most people would describe bats as "silent flyers of the night" but that is only true if you are human! Our ears cannot perceive the sounds of bats echolocat...

The riparian zones of the badlands of Alberta represent one of the most important hibernation sites known for bats in this province. Check out our most recent video on our work in the area of the Rosebud River. youtu.be/OX0XzAenCRQ?...

Rosebud River Valley: A Crucial Habitat for Alberta's Batsyoutu.be Explore the vital role of the Rosebud River Valley in Alberta, a breathtaking and crucial habitat for bats. This video takes you into the heart of this scenic region to uncover why it stands as one of the most important overwintering sites for bats in the province. Learn more about the ongoing efforts to conserve Alberta's bats and how you can help at Albertabats.ca and savetherosebud.ca

NEW VIDEO PREMIERE! The Rosebud River valley is a significant site for bats with critical hibernating habitat located in the riverbanks. AB has approved a multi-million dollar racetrack that will be built in the riparian habitat at this site (details savetherosebud.ca) youtu.be/OX0XzAenCRQ?... 🧪🦇🌎

Great article from CTV news & Bill MacFarlane on Alberta Bats (with some bat footage from our own Jason Headley) calgary.ctvnews.ca/bats-are-ret...

Bats are returning to Alberta or waking up - make them welcomecalgary.ctvnews.ca Spring migration usually brings up images of songbirds sweetly singing in yards, or waves of ducks following the melting snow north.

It's BAT APPRECIATION DAY! Be thankful for bats who eat insects and save crops and forests, bats who pollinate tropical fruits, bats who poop out fruit seeds, acting as the "night gardeners" in tropical systems and for bats everywhere for being so dang cool! #Biodiversity #BatsNeedFriends

We had SO much fun working with Wildlife Conservation Society and their education program at the Bronx Zoo producing a series of short videos on bats! View them on their newest webpage! #BatsNeedFriends and we are here for them! bronxzoo.com/learn/educat... 🧪🦇🌎

Bats Need Friends - Bronx Zoobronxzoo.com

Our director of bat research, Dr. Cori Lausen talks about migratory bats! These magnificent bats need help. Understand the issues and how you can help. #Bats #BatsNeedFriends #BatsAndWindEnergy blog.wcs.org/photo/2024/0...

WCS Wild View: Beneficent Bat, Part 2blog.wcs.org Hoary bats are long-distance migrators, traveling hundreds or thousands of miles seasonally to raise young in the northern reaches of North America. –Cori Lausen. Photo by ©Jason Headley.

Bats in Buildings - do you know what to do? youtu.be/ejdNvXe0Urk?...

Alberta Bats: Bats in Buildingsyoutu.be Have bats in your building? Watch this video for some pointers. Video by Jason Headley / Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, with assistance from Highway 2 Conservation.

Our Director of Bat Research was interviewed for a GREAT podcast this week. She talks about how she became interested in bats, their biology, current research on Northern Myotis and more! It's really a great interview! rss.com/podcasts/nor... 🧪👍🦇🔊

Northern Latitudes - Northern Latitudes: Cori Lausen - Echoes in the Dark (Bats) | RSS.comrss.com Episode Title: Echoes in the Dark: Unveiling the Mysteries of Bats with Cori LausenHost: Bill AultGuest: Cori Lausen, Director of Bat Conservation, WCS CanadaRelease Date: March 4th, 2024Introduction:...

Happy World Wildlife Day 2024! What are you going to do to help protect wildlife this year? 🧪🦇🌎 #Donate #Educate #ProtectHabitat #Learn #Engage #EnhanceHabitat #Act #Vote #Petition

WE ARE HIRING! Work with the Western Bat Team to create a program database! Check out the job description and see if this is a job for you. (You don't even have to work nights (aka bat hours) but you can if you want to!). www.wcscanada.org/Employment.a... #BatJOB! #DataManagement🦇🧪🌎

Happy Valentine's Day! Hoary Bats need some love. At the current rate of mortality at wind energy sites, Hoary Bats are going to be extinct within 25 years (based on modelling data). #LoveABat #BatsNeedFriends 🧪🦇🌎 (photo by JT Layne)

Our Western Bat Program Team have been working to help an endangered bat species that does not use bat boxes! A great article from the Narwhal on our efforts to help Northern Myotis in BC's interior temperate rainforests. thenarwhal.ca/endangered-b...

Can fake old-growth trees help this endangered animal? | The Narwhalthenarwhal.ca Northern myotis bats weigh little more than a loonie and have long, dark ears. Females take turns looking after each other’s pups under the bark of old trees — just the sort disappearing in a rare B.C. rainforest

We are on Youtube! With clips of bat video &a few summaries of Alberta bat research papers like this one. It's still very relevant today with questions about both Northern & Little Brown natural roosting habitat & whether forestry is managing to retain key habitats for bats. youtu.be/fsUZ3PT6hUg?...

Bats Need Big Trees for Roostingyoutu.be A short video with graphics explaining the findings of an Alberta study of roosting bats in the boreal forest. Little Brown Myotis and Northern Myotis both d...

Bat houses aren't for ALL bat species but they can be a useful tool to help bats in sites where we have permanently removed appropriate natural roosting habitat. But design, size and location will affect how well your bat house functions for bats! www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Building a better home for batswww.theglobeandmail.com Researchers have released a 178-page document on how to build better structures for bats, who are increasingly threatened by more frequent heat waves resulting from climate change

Another great article on "singing Silver-haired Bats" with a bit more discussion on habitat and the endangered status of this species. 🧪🌎🔊🦇 www.vancouverisawesome.com/animal-stori...

This B.C. bat species can singwww.vancouverisawesome.com The silver-haired bat is only the second in North America discovered to produce song, a study has found.

A short youtube clip of a singing silver-haired bat! If you missed it - new publication by members of our Western Bat Program Team! youtu.be/FhbJwcDiQtA?... 🧪🌎🔊

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I've never had so many requests for a paper so soon after publication! 🌍 🧪🦊 Here's a read-only link to our paper in Oecologia: rdcu.be/dvhvj "Inferring condition in wild mammals: body condition indices confer no benefit over measuring body mass across ecological contexts"

Our featured story in the Narwhal this week is now linked to our WCSCanada Western Bat Program website wcsbats.ca A great look at the interior BC temperate rainforests, the loss of old-growth & its affect on endangered Northern Myotis. Our team has been radio-tracking this species! 🦇🧪

All about BC's inland rainforest & the tiny endangered bat that calls that old-growth forest home. WCSC's Western Bat Team is studying habitat needs of Northern Myotis. The Narwhal features this work here: thenarwhal.ca/endangered-b...

Our Director of Bat Research, Dr. Cori Lausen was on CBC today talking about the "singing" Silver-haired Bats! Great interview - take a listen at CBC www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Homes for Bats - a great new article out in the Globe and Mail featuring both our BC and Alberta Bat Teams. Best practices also help determine WHERE to put up a bat house. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

NEW BAT PAPER OUT! Important work completed in the western Canadian National Parks on Little Brown Myotis & roosting habitat. It's tough surviving high elevations. These bats used both natural roosts & buildings! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Our WCS Canada Bat Team talks bat houses with CBC! To be clear, when we think of bat condos - those are usually the huge bat structures but multichambered bat houses are sometimes referred to as condos. More chambers, bigger boxes, more boxes are best. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Happy New Year everyone!