Got Bats? Participate in the New Hampshire Bat Counts Project

Contact:
Haley Andreozzi, UNH Cooperative Extension
603-862-5327
Sandi Houghton, NH Fish and Recreation
603-271-5697
Might 16, 2022

Harmony, NH – Wildlife biologists need assistance from volunteers who’ve bats of their barn or different outbuilding to conduct bat counts this summer season as a part of the New Hampshire Bat Counts undertaking to assist monitor summer season bat colonies within the Granite State. It’s simple to participate, and volunteers are requested to conduct at the very least one depend in June and one depend in July.

Constructions corresponding to barns and church steeples typically function summer season houses for feminine bats and their younger. Within the face of white-nose syndrome, which is inflicting important declines in bat populations all through the Northeast, monitoring these “maternity colonies” is extra necessary than ever. New Hampshire Fish and Recreation and UNH Cooperative Extension are in search of landowners and householders who’ve bats on their property to assist hold monitor of New Hampshire’s bats by conducting “emergence counts” at roost websites. Volunteers involved in studying extra can go to the New Hampshire Bat Counts web site at wildlife.state.nh.us/surveys/bats.html for extra data on conducting a depend and submitting knowledge.

There are two upcoming alternatives to be taught extra concerning the bat species present in New Hampshire, the threats resulting in inhabitants declines, and how one can assist preserve bats. Each occasions will embody an outline of bats in New Hampshire and data on take part within the New Hampshire Bat Counts undertaking, which entails citizen science volunteers in serving to to observe summer season bat colonies in New Hampshire.

In case you have questions on these occasions or the New Hampshire Bat Counts Venture, contact Haley Andreozzi at haley.andreozzi@unh.edu or (603) 862-5327.

The New Hampshire Fish and Recreation Division’s Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program coordinates analysis on bats in New Hampshire. Be taught extra at https://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/nongame/bats-nh.html.