AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin nonprofit is warning about the impacts that widely available bird repellents can have on wildlife — including Austin’s bat population. The Austin Bat Refuge rescued four bats ...
Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census, which will celebrate its ...
New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as birds. New Cornell ...
Terry Husted lives in DeWitt County, a major pathway for migrating birds in central Illinois. After a company submitted plans to construct a wind farm in his area, Husted said he grew worried about ...
At least some of that concern is justified. In the mid-1980s, people reported seeing piles of dead raptors at Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area near San Francisco, one of the nation’s first wind farms.
The image of the bat with blood and feathers around its mouth perfectly illustrates the story now published in Science by an international research team. Carlos Ibáñez at the Doñana Biological Station ...
To exploit a rich food resource that remains largely inaccessible to most predators, Europe’s largest bat captures, kills, and consumes nocturnally migrating birds in flight high above the ground, ...
In a few weeks, warming spring weather will draw out birds, bees and bats to feed, pollinate and nest. You can attract them to your yard with man-made habitats that you build or buy. You'll need ...
Flying critters don’t always have the best options when it comes to finding a home, but staff and students at Allegheny College are giving them a safe place to set up camp. After receiving a grant ...