Bats - Fear or Appreciation

Bats.... creatures to regard with superstition and fear? On summer evenings, bats put on an aerial display while eating hundreds of mosquitoes. Kent Woodruff of the US Fish and Wildlife Service spearheaded a project to save Townsend’s Big-eared bats. They preserved an old cabin that the bats had used as a nursery. Then they built an almost identical -- but permanent -- structure nearby, and the bats moved in! Learn more in a BirdNote story. Happy Halloween!

Play MP3   Download MP3   View Transcript