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New European Bat Heroes, Not Villains Bats & Mosquitoes SURPRISING HABITS OF A TEACHING KIDS THAT BATS ARE NEW EUROPEAN BAT BATS & M OSQUITOES HEROES , NOT VILLAINS WWW.BATCO N.ORG SPRING 2010 BBBAT CONSAAERVATIONTT INTERNASSTIONAL Volume 28, No. 1, spriNg 2010 P.O. Box 162603 , Austin, Texas 78716 BATS (512) 327-9721 • Fax (512) 327-9724 FEATURES Publications Staff Director of Publications: Robert Locke Photo Editor: Meera Banta 1 The Memo Graphic Artist: Jason Huerta Copyeditors: Angela England, Valerie Locke BATS welcomes queries from writers. Send your article proposal 2 Training for Research & Conservation with a brief outline and a description of any photos to the ad - in Latin America dress above or via email to: [email protected] . Members: Please send changes of address and all cor res - Workshops spur homegrown projects for bats pondence to the address above or via email to members@bat - con.org . Please include your label, if possible, and allow six by Christa Weise weeks for the change of address. Founder/President Emeritus: Dr. Merlin D. Tuttle Bats & Mosquitoes Executive Director: Nina Fascione 6 Board of Trustees: Testing conventional wisdom John D. Mitchell, Chair by Michael H. Reiskind and Matthew A. Wund Bert Grantges, Secretary Marshall T. Steves, Jr., Treasurer Anne-Louise Band; Eugenio Clariond Reyes; John 8 The Surprising Habits Hayes; C. Andrew Marcus; Bettina Mathis; Gary F. Mc - Cracken; Steven P. Quarles; Sandy Read; Walter C. Sedg - Of a New European Bat wick; Marc Weinberger. Advisory Trustees: Sharon R. Forsyth; Elizabeth Ames Alcathoe myotis face unique conservation challenges Jones; Travis Mathis; Wilhelmina Robertson; William by Radek K. Lu čan Scanlan, Jr.; Merlin D. Tuttle. Verne R. Read, Chairman Emeritus Scientific Advisory Board: Dr. Leslie S. Hall, Dr. Greg Richards, Bruce Thomson, 10 Heroes, Not Villains Australia; Dr. Irina K. Rakhmatulina, Azerbaijan; Dr. Education in Brazil replaces children’s fears of bats Luis F. Aguirre, Bolivia ; Dr. Wilson Uieda, Brazil; Dr. M. Brock Fenton, Canada ; Dr. Jiri Gaisler, Czech Republic; by Ana Cristina Brito dos Santos Dr. Uwe Schmidt, Germany; Dr. Ganapathy Marimuthu, Dr. Shahroukh Mistry, India; Dr. Arnulfo Moreno, Mex - NEWS AND NOTES ico; Ir. Herman Limpens, Netherlands; Dr. Armando Ro - driguez-Duran, Puerto Rico; Dr. Ya-Fu Lee, Taiwan; Dr. Denny G. Constantine, Robert Currie, Dr. Theodore H. Fleming, Dr. Thomas H. Kunz, Dr. Gary F. McCracken, 12 WNS reaches Canada, Maryland and Tennessee Dr. Don E. Wilson, United States; Dr. José R. Ochoa G., Killing bats leads to jail Venezuela. Membership Manager: Amy McCartney A world record BATS (ISSN 1049-0043) is published quarterly by Bat Con ser vation International, Inc., a nonprofit corporation If there’s a bat in my school... supported by tax-deductible contributions used for public ed - ucation, research and conservation of bats and the ecosystems Members in Action: Todd Austin: ‘The Bat Doc’ that depend on them. See the bats of Bracken Cave © Bat Conser vation International, 2010. All rights reserved. Bat Conservation International’s mission is to conserve the BCI Member Snapshot world’s bats and their ecosystems in order to ensure a healthy The Wish List planet. A subscription to BATS is included with BCI membership: Senior, Student or Educator $30; Basic $35; Friends of BCI COVER PHOTO: This greater bulldog bat ( Noctilio leporinus ) has just snatched $45; Supporting $60; Contributing $100; Patron $250; Sus - a minnow from the water. This is one of a number of unusual bats that are studied taining $500; Founder’s Circle $1,000. Third-class postage paid at Latin American field workshops cosponsored by BCI (story on Page 2). at Austin, Texas. Send address changes to Bat Conser vation In - © MERLIn D. TuTTLE, BCI / 0002211 ternational, P.O. Box 162603, Austin, TX 78716. THE MEMO from our EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR uring a recent trip to New Zealand, I Workshops, led by Dr. Brock Fenton, who Dhad the privilege of visiting one of that coun - now chairs the Biology Department at the try’s most important bat research projects. University of Western Ontario, Canada. The bats live in the Eglinton Valley of Fiord - Not only did the experience teach me a land National Park, right in the heart of New great deal about bats and field research, but Zealand’s famed Milford Track hiking trail. it turned me into an avid fan of this impor - The two species there – the long-tailed wa - tant taxonomic group. I have worked on tled bat ( Chalinolobus tuberculatus ) and the many meaningful wildlife-conservation lesser short-tailed bat ( Mystacina tuberculata ) programs over the years, but my passion has – are in peril due to the prevalence of non- always remained with the Chiroptera. native species. Stoats, rats and other preda - So what a joy it is to be at the helm of ©ROBERT LOCkE, BCI / 0046714 tors brought to New Zealand intentionally Bat Conservation International, focusing and unintentionally over the years prey on naive native birds and full-time on the vital task of educating people about the impor - bats. Because the native animals did not co-evolve with – and thus tance of bats and supporting the conservation programs of learn to avoid – these invaders, the resulting predation has devas - BCI’s dedicated and hard-working staff. I’ve known Merlin Tut - tated populations of New Zealand’s unique and rare animals. tle for years and am honored to carry on the visionary work that Researchers from New Zealand’s Department of Conserva - he began 27 years ago. tion are working hard to control these invasive species and to We have our work cut out for us. White-nose Syndrome is study the bats in order to save them. I spent an evening assisting devastating bat populations throughout the eastern United field researchers in harp-trapping and banding long-tailed bats States and continues to spread. It was just confirmed in my as part of a study to better understand their population size, home state of Maryland, the eleventh state to face the disease. habitat use and distribution trends. As New Zealand’s only na - But there are also exciting programs ripe for growth at BCI, tive mammals, bats are vital to the ecology and history of that such as our field workshops in Latin America, our efforts to pro - island country. tect bats in caves and mines across the United States, our artifi - It was wonderful to be involved in bat research again. My cial-roosts program and many, many more. We can’t do this love of bats began many years ago, while working at the work without the support of our dedicated members, so I thank Philadelphia Zoo in the mid-1980s. During that time, I at - you for your own interest in helping bats. Together, we can tended one of BCI’s first Bat Conservation and Management make a difference for these magnificent animals. Nina Fascione Volume 28, No. 1 SPRING 2010 1 BATS TRAINING FOR RESEARCH & C ONSERVATION IN LATIN AMERICA 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 / I C B , E L T T u T Workshops spur homegrown . D n I L R E M projects for bats © by Christa Weise The greater bulldog bat, such as this one skimming the water to snare a fish, was one of a number of unusual bats captured and examined during a workshop in Nicaragua. ading through the knee-deep water, we stretched our mist nets over and alongside the Escameca River in southwestern Nicaragua to capture tropical bats that fly out of the dense rainforest each night to forage. We especially hoped to net greater bulldog bats ( Noctilio leporinus ) – one of the few species of fishing bats. These W ©CHRIsTA WEIsE, BCI / / 0046718 bats have long legs and enormous claws that rake the water to snatch small fish swimming near the surface. We were fortunate that evening: among the bats of many species that appeared in our nets were several of the large, but re - markably gentle, greater bulldog bats. We identified, ex - amined and discussed these unusual mammals, then released them to continue their fishing. The group clustered alongside the river included 15 students who came from five Central American countries for an International Bat Research and Conservation Work - shop, organized by Bat Conservation International and its partners, especially the U.S. Forest Service International Programs. Conducted in Spanish, this six-day session in January 2009 was adapted in part from BCI’s popular and long-running U.S. workshops and planned as a pilot proj - ect. Our goal was to evaluate its potential for building firm foundations on which self-sustaining bat-conservation pro - grams can be nurtured in threatened tropical forests of Latin America, where bat biologists are sometimes scarce. Participants at the January 2009 International Bat Research and Con - We chose Nicaragua for this pilot workshop because of servation Workshop in Nicaragua gathered for a class photo at Volcan its ecological diversity, with tropical forests, mountains, Pa - Masaya National Park. Many of them already are working on bat cific and Atlantic coastal regions and active volcanoes, and research, education and conservation in their home countries. BATS 2 SPRING 2010 Volume 28, No. 1 1 2 7 6 4 0 0 / I C B because the country is home to 94 of the 176 known bat species in Mesoamerica. As , E s in much of Central America, Nicaragua’s forests are being rapidly converted to agri - I E W culture, with a dramatic loss of habitat. The need for conservation action is urgent. A T s I This trial run was an outstanding success, both in the reviews from students R H C and instructors and in the post-workshop conservation work of our students.
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