Saturday, July 14, 2012

Bat Survey Results Are In…….


by Licia Johnson, Naturalist

A few weeks ago I went out on a bat survey with DC member Ed Marshall on Squaw Lake in Lac du Flambeau.  We have received our results and map and it turns out it was an amazing survey!  Our map is below with all of our bat encounters.  A key is also below of the bat species we encountered.  The blue line on the map is our route we took, as you can see, it started out pretty slow with no encounters, but then we had bats the entire survey!  The majority of them being Little brown bats, a few Silver-haired bat, and we were excited to see the elusive Hoary bat on our survey.  Thanks Ed for taking the time to survey, looking forward to the next adventure!

 *      LACI = Lasiurus cinereus [Hoary bat]
Description: http://wiatri.net/Inventory/Bats/Monitoring/Acoustics/Mobile/SurveyResults/Images/sym_LANO.jpgLANO = Lasionycteris noctivagans [Silver-haired bat]
Description: http://wiatri.net/Inventory/Bats/Monitoring/Acoustics/Mobile/SurveyResults/Images/sym_MYLU.jpgMYLU = Myotis lucifugus [Little brown myotis]



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