Catching bats is a tricky business. We have a few tools up our sleeve to help like special nets and traps but when you are looking for a needle in a hay stack a lure helps too… including a saw?!
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We join the Te Anau bat monitoring team at the end of their Eglinton short-tailed bat season. They are pretty excited as they have just recorded a new population highest count of 4179, superseding the last record set in 2018 by over 1000 bats!
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Local rangers in Fiordland undertake short-tailed bat monitoring in order to protect and learn more about these special, little native critters. But sometimes they are not the only little critter on show…. The New Zealand bat fly is a wingless fly that lives alongside short tailed bats and is a creature of nightmares for some.
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