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BAT RESEARCH NEWS Table of Contents for Volume 47, 2006 Volume 47: Number 1, Spring 2006 Aspects of Migration by the Endangered Indiana Bat, Myotis sodalis Lisa Winhold and Allen Kurta . 1 Echolocation Calls of the Greater Sac-winged Bat (Saccopteryx bilineata) in Different Amounts of Clutter Sarah Bayefsky-Anand . 7 Recent Literature Compiled by Margaret A. Griffiths . 11 Book Review: Bats of Puerto Rico: An Island Focus and a Caribbean Perspective by M. R, Gannon, A. Kurta, A. Rodríguez-Durán, and M.R. Willig Reviewed by G. Roy Horst . 17 Announcement and Call for Papers: Vladimír Hanák Volume Ivan Horáek and Petr Benda . 19 Announcements/Future Events Compiled by Margaret A. Griffiths . 20 Volume 47: Number 2, Summer 2006 Migrating Bats Interacting with Wind Turbines: What Birds Can Tell Us Ronald P. Larkin . 23 A Technique for Surveying Bats in Narrow Habitat Corridors Neil E. Middleton, David Dodds, Christopher Gould, Craig R. Macadam, Shoana Mackenzie, and Kirsty Morrison . 33 An Accidental Record of the Northern Yellow Bat, Lasiurus intermedius, in Illinois C. Miguel Pinto . 37 Recent Literature Compiled by Margaret Griffiths . 39 BAT RESEARCH NEWS Table of Contents for Volume 47, 2006 (cont.) Volume 47: Number 3, Fall 2006 A Catalog of Primary Types of Bat Fleas (Siphonaptera: Ischnopsyllidae) of the World Robert E. Lewis . 43 Letters to the Editor Compiled and Edited by Allen Kurta Banded Bat Recovered at Wind Farm – Information Needed Robert Barclay . 61 A Fossil Bat with Extremely Worn Teeth and a Question for Tropical Bat Specialists Elodie Maitre and Bernard Sigé . 62 Recent Literature Compiled by Margaret Griffiths . 63 News/Announcements Compiled by Margaret Griffiths . 69 Future Meetings/Events Compiled by Margaret Griffiths . 70 Advertisements . Inside back cover Volume 47: Number 4, Winter 2006 Detecting Directional Movement at a Hibernaculum with an Infrared Beam-break System D. Redell, D. Shurilla, H. Guenther, S. R. Craven, J. A. Reinartz, and M. Rowe . 71 Abstracts Presented at the 36th Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research Compiled and edited by Mary Kay Clark . 81 List of Participants at the 36th Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research Compiled by Mary Kay Clark . 162 Recent Literature Compiled by Margaret Griffiths . 175 Book Review: Bats of Florida by C. S. Marks and G. E. Marks Reviewed by Blake Sasse . 181 Announcements Compiled by Margaret Griffiths . 183 BAT RESEARCH NEWS Volume 47: No. 1 Spring 2006 Publisher and Managing Editor: Margaret A. Griffiths, Dept. of Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University, P. O. Box 2900, Bloomington, IL 61702-2900, TEL 309-556-3697, FAX 309-556-3864; E-mail: [email protected] Editor for Feature Articles: Allen Kurta, Dept. of Biology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, TEL 734-487-1174, FAX 734-487-9235; E-mail: [email protected] Editor for Recent Literature: Karry Kazial, Dept. of Biology, SUNY at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY 14063, TEL 716-673-3284, FAX 716-673-3493; E-mail: [email protected] Editor for Conservation/Education: Patricia Morton, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Suite 100, 3000 IH 35 South, Austin, TX 78704, TEL 512-912-7020; E-mail: [email protected] Emeritus Editor: G. Roy Horst E-mail: [email protected] Bat Research News is published four times each year, consisting of one volume of four issues. Bat Research News publishes short feature articles and general interest notes that are reviewed by at least two scholars in that field. In addition Bat Research News includes a recent literature section that cites nearly all bat-related publications in English worldwide; the abstracts of presentations at bat conferences around the world; letters to the Editors; news submitted by our readers, notices and requests, and announcements of future bat conferences worldwide. Communications concerning feature articles and “letters to the Editor” should be addressed to Kurta, recent literature items to Kazial, conservation items to Morton, and all other correspondence to Griffiths. The prices for one volume-year are: [in U.S. dollars] printed edition to U.S.A. $20.00 mailed bulk mail rates printed edition to all other addresses $30.00 mailed surface mail to all addresses electronic edition $15.00 worldwide all institutional subscriptions are $40.00 worldwide printed + electronic Please see information on web site, or contact M. 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Therefore, please do not send credit card information to me; credit card payment must be done directly by you on-line using the appropriate electronic form. Back issues of Bat Research News are available for a small fee. For issues from 1960–2003 (Volumes 22–44), please contact Roy Horst ([email protected]). For more recent back issues (2004–present), contact Margaret Griffiths ([email protected]). Thank you! Bat Research News is ISSN # 0005-6227 Bat Research News is printed and mailed at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois 61702-2900 U.S.A., and is copyrighted to Margaret A. Griffiths, Publisher This issue printed March 9, 2006 Aspects of Migration by the Endangered Indiana Bat, Myotis sodalis Lisa Winhold and Allen Kurta Department of Biology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Introduction band on the forearm of each animal (Winhold et al., 2005). Three of the five bats Many temperate bats migrate several eventually were recovered while hibernating hundred kilometers from their summer during the following winter (C, D, and F in roosts to winter hibernacula, a journey that Fig. 1). The first bat was recovered in Jug is both energetically costly and dangerous Hole Cave, Harrison Co., Indiana, on 22 due to increased exposure to weather and January 2005. The second female was found predators (Fleming and Eby, 2003). During in Cave Branch Cave, Menifee Co., hibernation, most bats require specific Kentucky, on 27 January 2005, and the third environmental conditions to minimize Indiana bat was recovered on 3 February energy expenditure, and consequently, they 2005 in Colossal Cave, in Mammoth Cave often hibernate in caves, which are restricted National Park, Edmonson Co., Kentucky. to specific geological regions (e.g., Culver et These bats were hibernating in caves that al., 1999). Because time and energy is were ca. 476, 465, and 575 km, respectively, required to migrate, the possible distance from their summer range. between summer roosts and winter hibernacula theoretically is limited, and thus, knowledge of migratory abilities may Distance of Migration be useful in predicting the geographic range Based on early studies by W. H. Davis of a species. Knowledge of migratory (in litt.; Kurta, 1980) in the 1960s and our patterns also is essential for conservation of own fieldwork since 1995 (Kurta and an endangered species, such as the Indiana Murray, 2002; this study), we now know of bat (Myotis sodalis), because managers must 12 banded Indiana bats that have made ensure the existence of appropriate shelter spring or fall migrations between Michigan and food for the animal on both the summer and Indiana or Kentucky. The distance and winter range, as well as along the covered by these migrations ranges from migratory route. In this report, we describe 410 to 575 km, with a mean of 477 ± 15 new records of long-distance migration by (SE) km. These distances are some of the the Indiana bat, comment on the time needed longest migrations on record for any Myotis for such migrations, and speculate on the in North America. Tuttle (1976) indicates relationship between the location of that some gray bats (M. grisescens) moved hibernacula and of summer roosts. 525 km from a summer roost in Florida to a hibernation site in Tennessee, whereas Humphrey and Cope (1976) mentioned a New Migratory Records 455-km migration by a little brown bat (M. On 27 May 2004, we captured five adult lucifugus) from a maternity site in northern female Indiana bats near their maternity Indiana to a cave in southern Kentucky. For trees, ca. 3 km SE of Norvell, Jackson Co., other North American species of Myotis, the Michigan, and placed a uniquely numbered maximum recorded distance is less than 100 2 Bat Research News Volume 47: No. 1 Figure 1. Migration of Indiana bats that were banded on their summer range near Norvell, Jackson Co., Michigan (star), and later found hibernating in caves in Indiana and Kentucky—A) Ray’s Cave; B) Batwing Cave; C) Jug Hole Cave; D) Colossal Cave; E) Waterfall Cave; F) Cave Branch Cave; and G) Bat Cave. Curved line indicates 575-km limit from any of the hibernacula, and stippled area suggests the extent of summer range of the Indiana bat in the Upper Midwest, based on this maximum migration distance. km. These include southeastern bats, M. distance migration by Indiana bats were 520 austroriparius, 72 km (Rice, 1957); cave km (Gardner and Cook, 2002) and 532 km bats, M. velifer, 59 km (Dunnigan and Fitch, (Kurta and Murray, 2002).
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