- 3 colony assessments
- Launched Ears on Bats citizen led acoustic program
- 3 acoustic monitoring deployments
- 5 partner orgs assisting
- 1 bat rehabilitation workshop.
- 3 wildlife conferences
- 5 bat walks
- 36 educational programs
- 2,500 people attended
- 16,604 social media followers
- 3 rehabilitators
- 4 interns
- ~4,000 calls and texts
- 200+ bats
- 6 species
- 1 rare, threatened &
endangered species - 400,000+ mealworms
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BCRV 2023 review
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Created on January 24, 2023
2022 year in review
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But we released everyone we could, transferred a respectable number to partner rehabbers, and despite a heartbreaking year, we're not giving up.
- 3 colony assessments
- Launched Ears on Bats citizen led acoustic program
- 3 acoustic monitoring deployments
- 5 partner orgs assisting
- 1 bat rehabilitation workshop.
- 3 wildlife conferences
- 5 bat walks
- 36 educational programs
- 2,500 people attended
- 16,604 social media followers
We had another very hard year. The majority of pups came in starved, adults came in wounded and ill, and winter intakes are still arriving.
- 3 rehabilitators
- 4 interns
- ~4,000 calls and texts
- 200+ bats
- 6 species
- 1 rare, threatened & endangered species
- 400,000+ mealworms
Education
Conservation
Release
Rescue
Why do we transfer instead of keeping everyone to release ourselves?
- We want to give other rehabilitators who are interested in bats the opportunity to learn and gain experience.
- We want to ensure that bats are close to "home" or near known colonies of their own kind.
- To free up space so we can take in more critical cases
- To get bats to facilities with better or more appropriate flight acclimation opportunity
- For intensive medical care
2024 species list
- Big Brown Bat
- Eastern Red Bat
- Silver Hair Bat
- Evening Bat
- Tricolor Bat (proposed for ESA listing)
- Hoary Bat
https://linktr.ee/batconservationandrescueofva
Find and Follow us!
Our summer outreach intern helped launch a boots-on-the-ground citizen-led acoustic data capture program. In partnership with Headwaters Master Naturalists, we are able to deploy master naturalists with hand-held montiors to encourage the public to explore bat activity in local public spaces.
Ears on Bats!!
People ask us to come check out their structures for the presence of bats. If we find a significant bat colony, we revisit annually to see how the population is growing, or not. In some cases, people reach out because of contruction or demolition plans of buildings they suspect house bats. Luckily, this year we found no bats, but did discover two thriving chimney swift colonies!