Happy #BatWeek2024! Bat houses are good for some bat species. If you want to provide good roost habitat for bats - include at least 2 or 3 or more boxes that offer a variety of roost temperatures. Bats like choices! #GoldilocksBats #Bats #BatHouses

Happy #BatWeek2024! Bats need a variety of roost sites with >temp variation. Bat box design can create gradients of temperatures, number of chambers, size of box & exterior colour are all important. See doi.org/10.7944/P99K4B… for best practices for bat house management in NAm.

Happy #BatWeek2024! Bat houses should be installed before the loss of a building roost but if not, install asap after a roost loss. See doi.org/10.7944/P99K4B… for best practices for using bat houses in North America. #BatHouses #BestPractices #RoostLoss

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Happy #BatWeek2024! Do you have a bat house? Does it overheat? Or no bats? Best advice is to leave it up & add a few more boxes (within 100m) to give bats options if they have to move. Empty boxes may be important during portions of the year. See doi.org/10.7944/P99K4B… for BMPs

IT'S A PODCAST!!! Our Director of Bat Research is chatting with WCS Wild Audio as part of #BatWeek2024 - listen in for all the latest bat news with Dr. Cori Lausen. #BatsNeedFriends #Bats

Bats are not trinkets.

Big Brown Bats are found across North America. Arguably one of the "work horses" consuming pest insects like beetles & moths that benefit farmers across the continent.

The secret lives of Vancouver’s bats — and the race to save them: thenarwhal.ca/secret-lives-v… Featuring the work of our BC Bat Team!

Happy #BatWeek2024! Bat boxes favour a couple of bat species over others. Maintaining old trees in natural areas is a better way to provide roost habitat for bats. Bat community structure can shift with too many bat houses present. See doi.org/10.7944/P99K4B… for best practices

The race to save B.C.’s bats canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the-r…

Happy #BatWeek2024! Not all bats use bat boxes! Our team is working on a more natural alt-roost for bats. Several bat species have been found to use these roosts (inc spp that hate bat boxes). Currently we monitor temp, spp, & bat #s at these experimental roosts. See wcsbats .ca

Did you know thousands of bridges across western Canada are used by bats? 🦇 We've been examining how bats use these structures and sampling at these sites to monitor and better understand these populations Alberta Bats #CountdownTo2025

#Infographic! Have you thought of the skies being like an ocean? The study of airspaces is called "aeroecology". Bats, birds, &insects use windcurrents for large scale migration pathways. Lots going on up there! We don't think of conservation of "airspace" (but maybe we should)

#WEBINAR! "Bat conservation as White Nose Syndrome approaches" Friday, January 31, 2025 12 p.m. PT / 1 p.m. MT Bats in B.C. face unprecedented threats from White Nose Syndrome, which can wipe out entire colonies if introduced. Free! fwcp.ca/events/

Happy to report that our work on immune system adaptations in #bats is now out in nature 🦇🧬nature.com/articles/s4158… Ariadna Morales Bat Researcher - A.Prof. Aaron Irving Arinjay Banerjee Bat1k Genome Project SENCKENBERG LOEWE Centre Translational Biodiversity Genomics Read more ...

The Hidden Cost of Wind Energy — and How We Can Fix It youtu.be/rHe-qNKK8QY?si… via YouTube