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Bat Conservation North Texas is home to Bat World Sanctuary, an organization that rescues and rehabilitates hundreds of bats a year. Find a bat in your yard or neighborhood? The "Found a Bat?" Page provides guidance on helping the bat.
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Citizen Science Recording and listening to bat calls is a primary method of monitoring bat populations. Although specialized computer programs can help analyze audio recordings, scientists need human listeners to accurately distinguish bat calls against the backdrop of other night noises in a recording. Bat Detective provides an avenue for citizen scientists to help with this work. Learn more about the whys and hows of this project here.
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In the Cave and on the Wing Bat World Sanctuary's Batcam Webpage provides 24/7 live footage of several of their facility's bat enclosures. The Mexican Free-tailed Bat, a species found in North Texas, is one of the occupants of the "Insect Bat Cave." Witnessing a colony of bats emerge from their roosting site can be an unforgettable experience. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Website provides a guide to top Bat Watching Sites of Texas, including the renowned Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin and Bracken Cave Preserve near San Antonio.
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Bats of Texas
by Loren K. Ammerman
With all new illustrations, color photographs, revised species accounts, updated maps, and a sturdy flexible binding, this new edition of the authoritative guide to bats in Texas will serve as the field guide and all-around reference of choice for amateur naturalists as well as mammalogists, wildlife biologists, and professional conservationists.
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Bats of the United States and Canada
by Michael J. Harvey
Written by three of the world’s leading bat experts and featuring J. Scott Altenbach's stunning photographs, this fact-filled and easy-to-use book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of bats in the U.S. and Canada.
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Bats : a world of science and mystery
by M. Brock Fenton
Presents a guide to what scientists know about bats, detailing their origins, evolution, diet, habitat, reproductive process, and social structure, and offers a discussion of echolocation and these mammals' role in the ecosystem
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