⚠️ Fake webs are dangerous to your local wildlife- bats included! Leave the webbing to our spider friends and celebrate spooky season with eco-friendly decorations instead. 👻 🦇 Mexican long-tongued bat caught in fake web decoration 📷 Dick Wilkins

This weekend is INTERNATIONAL BAT NIGHT and it's the perfect time of year to go looking for bats. Whether you join a bat walk from one of our hundreds of partners across the U.S. or take a sunset stroll, see if you can spot and celebrate our favorite flying mammals. Find a Bat

We're flying high this week, because our MENTOR-Bat 🦇 program just held its second in-person workshop in Yogyakarta, Indonesia with a special emphasis on evidence-based bat conservation and One Health approaches. 👉 Read more here! ow.ly/zkgG50T5b4S

Apply for EarthShare Texas’ Green Leaders Fellowship program and make a difference! BCI is participating in EarthShare Texas’ Green Leaders Fellowship 2025 cohort as a nonprofit host. The mission of the EarthShare Texas Green Leaders Fellowship is to foster a vibrant and diverse

Moisturized. Content. Thriving. 🦇Myotis 📷Shawn Thomas

New bat blog! batcon.org/why-do-bats-fl…

What's your fav bat fact? We're all ears. 📷Shawn Thomas

Experience Bracken Cave Preserve and the bat-nado through the eyes of Maya Higa! youtube.com/watch?v=55kwlp…

Cats and bats don't mix, which is why we're working to complete predator exclusion fences at Jamaican caves that are home to two Critically Endangered bat species. discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/f…

Three brown bats, three brown bats. They are not mice, they are not blind. 📷Shawn Thomas

So I'm not the only one who makes silly faces in the mirror. 🤪 🦇brown long-eared bat 📷Sherri & Brock Fenton

In this week's blog post, we separate fact from fiction and sift through the most common bat myths. 🦇 batcon.org/five-false-myt…

Some bats are the length of your finger and some fit in the palm of your hand. 👐

Our Subterranean team was at it again, this time in Colorado. SubT Technician Sarah Marquez led a crew through the San Juan Mountains in the southern Rockies, conducting Abandoned Mine Land inventory work for the Bureau of Land Management. Typically admired from afar, the crew

Which came first, echolocation or flight? Find out in our latest bat blog! news.batcon.org/3XEZGek

From creek trash to bat splash! In a partnered effort to divert waste, we teamed up with students and volunteers from Austin Youth River Watch, Austin Creative Reuse and Austin-based artist Joan Cabarrus to create Ms. Batreuse. With a 6-foot wingspan and made of PVC pipe, Amazon

Who ordered their pumpkin spice bat extra spicy? 🌶️ 🦇western red bat 📷Jose Gabriel Martinez Fonseca

Are we still doing Friday the 13th? 💀 🦇 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘦𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘪 📷 Sherri & Brock Fenton