Public help needed to find bat roosts and count bats
BC Annual Bat Count contributes to monitoring for impacts of white-nose syndrome across the province
Click here to find our Local Bat Count press release.
Photos and credits:
The Little Brown Myotis occurs across BC but is threatened by white-nose syndrome, a bat disease. Photo: B Paterson.
KCBP Bat count 2020: Bat counting involves relaxing at dusk watching bats emerge from a roost site. Photo: Kootenay Community Bat Project.
Bat emerging from a bat box. Photo: J Saremba, BMN.
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WNSSpreadMap_2021-05-03: Current map of WNS in North America. https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/where-is-wns