A Bat Named Carrie!

For those of you interested in the pine forest bat research saga... It sounds like Kerry has had more than twice as much success catching bats in the past month than she had during the two months we were helping her in Tokoroa! She has been keeping us updated on their successes. Yesterday Kerry emailed us:

"Thought that you night like to know that we captured a young female bat (called Beth) the night after you visited. She smelt of milk still so we assumed that she was still being fed by Mum. we tracked her to a maternity roost - wahoo! Two days later we captured an adult female at that roost using hand nets (i.e. a couple of trout landing nets stuck on some PVC pipe and held up in the air). She too smelt of milk. We named her Carrie. The roost that they are in has 10-12 bats in it each night, so roost emergence counts are pretty exciting!"

Carrie