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University of Glasgow Trinidad Expedition Get Batty at Asa Wright [email protected] Tel: (868) 667-4655 January 2018 University of Glasgow Trinidad Expedition Get Batty at Asa Wright The University of Glasgow team on their last night at Asa Wright By Ellen McMurchy On each night the team visited, they set up two large ground nets, 12m in From June to August last year, 14 length at ground level and one ‘triple- students from Scotland visited high’ net to sample bats at canopy Trinidad as part of a 10-week long height. Once erected, the triple expedition in association with high system was over 10m tall and the Universities of Glasgow and consisted of three nets stacked on top Edinburgh. Each third year student of each other. The nets were opened at on the team completed their honours sunset each night and kept open for 4 project whilst on the trip focusing hours, usually from 19:00h to 23:00h. on bats, turtles, frogs or geography. The team regularly checked the nets The bat team made regular visits to for bats and once one was caught, the Asa Wright Nature Centre during it was quickly removed. The bat was July and August, spending a total of then taken to the team’s processing 6 nights at the centre catching bats. station. Once there, the bats were The team wanted to nd out whether weighed and their forearms were also human disturbance is a ecting bat measured. The team also recorded the species diversity and so compared gender, age, reproductive status and Asa Wright’s protected grounds to species of each individual. more human in uenced areas such as The University of the West Indies and In total the team caught and recorded the William Bebe Research Centre. 157 bats at Asa Wright over 6 nights, Continues on next page Ewan standing beside the triple high pole, showing its height. Photo by Ellen McMurchy Design and Layout courtesy Lonsdale Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Ltd, a friend of the Asa Wright Nature Centre JANUARY • PAGE 1 January 2018 University of Glasgow Trinidad Expedition Get Batty at Asa Wright (continued) From previous page representing a total of 19 species! This was much higher than the number of species recorded at the University of the West Indies and at SIMLA. The team also caught several uncommon or rare species whilst visiting Asa Wright, which caused a lot of excitement! These rare bats included Niceforo’s bat (Trinycteris nicefori), the Stripe-headed round-eared bat (Tonatia saurophilia), the Great striped-faced bat (Vampyrodes carraccioli), Geo rey’s hairy-legged bat (Anoura geo royi), the Lesser long-tongued bat (Choeroniscus minor), the Brazilian brown bat (Eptesicus brasiliensis), the Lesser moustached bat (Pternotus personatus) and the Trinidadian funnel-eared bat (Natalus tumidirostris). All of these bats were only found at Asa Wright con rming the need to have undisturbed habitats for bat success. The Trinidad Expedition team wants to thank Asa Wright for their hospitality and for Ellen carefully removing a bat from a A close-up of Seba’s Short Tailed Fruit Bat allowing them to use their grounds for their mist net. (Carollia perspicillata). research. A full report of their research will be Photo by the 2017 University of Photo by Ellen McMurchy made available early this year. Glasgow Trinidad Expedition Common Moustached Bat (Pteronotus parnellii). Although considered Seba’s Short Tailed Fruit Bat (Carollia perspicillata). common, this species was only caught at Asa Wright. Photo by Lucy Clark Photo by Ellen McMurchy Design and Layout courtesy Lonsdale Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Ltd, a friend of the Asa Wright Nature Centre JANUARY • PAGE 2 January 2018 Dr. Elisha Tikasingh By Ian Lambie There have been several contributors to the development of our Nature Centre during its early years. In this edition of Bellbird we recognise Dr. Elisha Tikasingh who served as an AWNC Board Member for many years. Dr. Tikasingh recently tuned 90 years on December 1st, 2017. In 1960, Elisha obtained his doctorate in zoology and parasitology from the Oregon State University. He has served as a member of AWNC’s Management Committee for many years and is the editor of the journal of the Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists’ Club Living World. He has made signi cant contributions to scienti c research through his work in entomology, parasitology and virology while rst working at the Trinidad Regional Virus Lab and later at CAREC (Caribbean Regional Epidemiology Dr. Elisha Tikasingh Centre), where he was the Head of its Source: niherst.gov.tt Parasitology and Entomology Unit which he had established. His research included in recognition of his outstanding investigations into the outbreaks of contributions to Public Health. In 1995, yellow fever in Trinidad and malaria and he was the recipient of the award equine encephalitis in the Caribbean. for outstanding services to Medical Technology from the Caribbean Association of Medical Technologists One of his greatest achievements and in 2001, the recipient of the award was his development of a technique for Excellence from the Caribbean for the production of a large amount Health Research Council for outstanding of uid with antibodies in mice used Scienti c Achievements in Entomology, to identify arboviruses which, at the Parasitology and Virology. time, became a standard technique in arbovirology around the world. He The Main Lecture Theatre at CAREC is the author of the book The Hunt is designated “The Elisha Tikasingh for Caribbean Viruses: A History of the Lecture Theatre”. Elisha is featured in Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory. the documentary “Trinidad and Tobago icons in Science and Technology”. In 1994, Elisha was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Caribbean Public Health Association Design and Layout courtesy Lonsdale Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Ltd, a friend of the Asa Wright Nature Centre JANUARY • PAGE 3 January 2018 THE T&T BIRDING SCENE New species and high counts By Martyn Kene ck At Springhill we really do have an American Redstarts, Yellow Warblers additional member of the AWNC and Northern Waterthrushes made family. Our wonderful Green Hermit landfall during September. October mummy has been at it again... and brought the rst of the wintering again. As many will know, her nest is Belted King shers, Prothonotary woven around the lounge light chain. Warblers and Olive-sided Flycatchers She has successfully raised a fourth whilst migrating Blackpoll Warblers brood of two chicks for the calendar were found at a number of sites. year and, at the time of writing in mid- Soras appeared in suitable freshwater January, is sat on her nest again... there marshes during November as did just must be something in the sugar water! Black and White Warbler. Photo by Nigel Lallsingh a handful of Yellow-billed Cuckoos September will be remembered along with a few hundred Dickcissels partly for the exceptional high tally in the south west (increasing to a few of Channel-billed Toucans on the thousand in December). property, with at least 22 birds seen It always amazes us that tiny migrant on the 8th. At this time almost all passerines are able to return to exactly of the White-necked Jacobins have the same spot year after year. In made their post-breeding dispersal November, our guide Elsa, whilst taking to the mainland, so the name tag of customers on a regular “night-walk” “hummingbird bully” transferred to found a roosting Northern Waterthrush our White-chested Emeralds. In early sat on exactly the same branch as the October, a Cocoa Woodcreeper was previous winter; a female Black and seen on several occasions checking Bu -breasted Sandpiper. Photo by Nigel Lallsingh White Warbler returned to its favoured out one of our nest boxes along the patch of mangrove at Carli Bay for entrance road and we recorded a new perched regularly in the top of a dead the fourth successive winter and in species for the estate, with a Black- tree. Away from the centre his group December, a Tennessee Warbler was crowned Night-Heron calling as it ew found an impressive ock of 43 Blue- found in exactly the same small group over our car park one night. headed Parrots and a Blackburnian of trees just behind the shoreline at Warbler at Nariva. By Christmas, the The presence of celebrities certainly Brick elds for the second year running. Jacobins returned and retained their brings an atmosphere conducive for How do they do that? crown as top dog hummingbird. nding rare sightings both at Asa And there were a few rarities along the Wright and on our external tours. Keith Elsewhere, so much happened way. On October 25th our guides Barry Hansen’s group found three Swallow during the autumn. Extreme weather and Charran, found an immature Scaly- Tanagers on the Blanchisseuse Road conditions throughout the Caribbean naped Pigeon south of Manzanilla. on October 8th. Not to be outdone, six heralded an excellent shorebird season. Whilst there is an established birds were seen and photographed on Both American Golden Plover and population on Little Tobago island, this David Sibley’s northern range day – a Least Sandpipers were found in large is the rst Trinidad record. Over on the new species for David. This is the rst numbers, but pride of place goes to a sister isle, two Northern Shoveler were time this species has been seen after delightful group of ve Bu -breasted found at Bon Accord on November the end of August (and one remained Sandpipers in potato elds near 2nd, just the third documented record until early December at least). David’s Carapachaima and a trio of Hudsonian ever for T&T. And leaving the best to visit coincided not only with both Godwits, further south, in Couva.
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