BatCast

Celebrating UF's amazing bat houses and their spectacular inhabitants! BatCast daily forecast coming soon.

[BatCast @uf_bats]

UF Bats getting some great coverage! 🦇😍🥰🥰

[FLORIDA @UF]

Bats are misunderstood. 😕

By tracking and sharing their activity through Project BatCast (@uf_bats), Florida researchers @BatsOnTheMove and @DitiJay are helping people learn about the importance of one of the most understudied mammals in the world. 🦇

[Natalie van Hoose @HooseHere]

RIP old bat house. @UF staff dismantled the deteriorating house ahead of Ian after completing last week's bat exclusion. The colony should now be comfortably ensconced in the two remaining bat barns.

[Natalie van Hoose @HooseHere]

Bats are finicky about their choice of roost. So it was with great relief that @UF staff watched some 350,000 bats relocate from the old, deteriorating campus bat house to the newest one, which had been empty since 2017.
https://t.co/VGGXjd90uC

[Natalie van Hoose @HooseHere]

When you wish you could borrow the Bat Signal:
@UF scientists and staff must coax a renowned bat colony to move house. But getting hundreds of thousands of bats to go where you want them to proves to be an elusive art. 🦇
My story for @UFNews: https://t.co/be5FxzTkm1

[Stacey Steinberg @sgsteinberg]

A few more pictures from the @UF Bat Houses near Lake Alice. 🐊❤️

[Caitlin J Campbell @BatsOnTheMove]

Nothing picks a Monday up like watching the @uf_bats emerge at sunset!

#bats #wildlifephotography

[BatCast @uf_bats]

Stellar emergence this evening at the UF bat houses. Hundreds of thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats emerge together to forage and make quite the spectacle!

[Molly Phillips @StellarSquirrel]

Really enjoyed learning about @BatsOnTheMove and @DitiJay's bat monitoring research at the bat houses last night! Bonus -- @DitiJay taught me I can take slow-motion videos on my phone! #iDigTRIOUF

[iDigBio @iDigBio]

Hopefully everyone had some fun yesterday for iDigTRIO day 1! Here are a couple of snippets we have to share: a nature walk at La Chua Trail & a visit to the UF bat houses to learn about a bat monitoring project led by @DitiJay and @BatsOnTheMove #iDigTRIOUF

[Hannah Vander Zanden @hanvanzan]

Two @UFBiology students are monitoring the marvels of bats on our own campus. I am looking forward to @uf_bats outputs!

[FLORIDA @UF]

Bats are misunderstood. 😕

By tracking and sharing their activity through Project BatCast (@uf_bats), Florida researchers @BatsOnTheMove and @DitiJay are helping people learn about the importance of one of the most understudied mammals in the world. 🦇

[Caitlin J Campbell @BatsOnTheMove]

We started acoustic monitoring of the #bats at the UF Bat Houses for Project BatCast (@uf_bats)— these data look great! Hundreds of thousands of free-tailed bats make a lot of noise echolocating their way into the world each night.
🦇🦇Happy #BatAppreciationMonth!🦇🦇

[Alberta Bats @albertabats]

It's October! That can mean only one thing...BAT WEEK IS COMING! We will be posting all month to celebrate and appreciate bats. Please take this time to try & recruit a few friends to follow our page & learn about bats. #BatsNeedFriends #HappyBatWeek2021 #Bats #AlbertaBats

[BatCast @uf_bats]

Tens of thousands of free-tailed #bats emerged from the #UF bat houses last night to hunt for insects in the nice weather. Project BatCast is working to monitor their activities and track their population!

#wildlifephotography #gopro

[Alberta Bats @albertabats]

Just for reference, this is how bat biologists see our little insectivorous #bats. Little lumps of cute fluff with a doggo face. Add a large dose of respect for a wee mammal that could be 20+ years old & highly intelligent. #HesLookingAtYou #ThoseEyesKnow #EveryLittleThingCounts

[Matt Hallett @mhallett2320]

Slow motion release of a Southeastern myotis (bat) by @ElizaBat_Braun at @UF @UF_IFAS Ordway-Swisher Biological Station... Really appreciate the @MyFWC bat team taking time out of their schedules to share their AMAZING research with @UFWildlife Techniques students! #batwomen

[BatCast @uf_bats]

Gorgeous emergence at the bat houses this evening! How many bats can you count?

[Dr. Bella, tired and wired @LittleLeapers_]

I think about these 'samurai bats' often.

[BatCast @uf_bats]

@ElizaBat_Braun About 10 min after sunset, +/- 10 min depending on weather and light levels. Come on down sometime!

[BatCast @uf_bats]

Gorgeous emergence tonight from the #UF #Bat Houses! 😍🦇