Over this past spring and summer, more than a thousand people worked with the government-funded Community Bat Programs of BC to conducted count at more than 300 roosts
A clamour of clicking erupts – not from the animals echolocating their prey, but because the eight volunteers are furiously using their tally counters to log each emerging adult, which measure only five to 10 centimetres from head to tail.
Nobody knows how many of these flying mammals live in British Columbia, but this spring and summer, more than a thousand people working withconducted counts at more than 300 roosts. These counts don’t estimate an overall population of bats in the province because the volunteers’ work can cover only a fraction of the overall roosts of the 15 species known to call the province home.
A new mother little brown bat that is feeding milk to its baby can eat her weight in insects every night, she said. During hibernation, volunteers watch for dead bats and, come spring, they collect huge bags of guano. Both are sent to a provincial lab to test for white nose syndrome.
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