1/5. #WBTC1#Conserve3. I’m Rob Schorr @ColoradoStateU. When WNS hit eastern NAmer, #bats mortality was obvious. When WNS hit western NAmer, mortality was much less obvious. Fewer cave/mine hibernacula in the West. Where should biologists monitor 🦇? Maybe cliffs! 🤔
@JackBHooker Thanks, Jack. I’m learning to climb simply for the opportunity to see 🦇. Slow going. Again, thanks for the support and hosting, and I think it is wise for CBC to link in with UKclimbing.
5/5 #WBTC1#Conserve3 Next steps: online data portal for data submission; visit routes where climbers have seen 🦇; engage with climbers at festivals and show them bats; and collaborate with climbing orgs! See a 🦇while climbing, let us know! email: [email protected]
4/5 #WBTC1#Conserve3 What if you hire climbers to look for bats? 50 km W of Denver, Colorado, USA. Pre-climbing surveys and climbing surveys. 42 pre-climb surveys, 45 climbing. 2 🦇 found: Myotis evotis, Eptesicis fuscus. 1cm cracks, east-facing, 10–12m high