Photos from the Field: Red Bat, Brown Bat, Flying Squirrel!
Update on the Second Year of CWF’s Northern Long-eared Bat Study
by Lindsay McNamara, Communications Manager
In early June, CWF, in partnership with NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife, began the second year of the Northern long-eared bat mist netting and radio telemetry study. The team will be focusing efforts in Southern and Coastal New Jersey this year. The goal of the mist netting and radio telemetry project to learn more about the summer distribution and habitat selection of the federally listed Northern long-eared bat; an important project that can shed light on a species we know all too little about.
To date, the team has completed its second week of mist netting. So far, our team has caught 6 eastern red bats, 3 big brown bats and accidentally caught 2 flying squirrels in two different sites in southern New Jersey. Though a myotis bat has not been caught yet, the team did get acoustic detection of a tricolored bat (Perimyotis subflavus) foraging near the net site in Colliers Mills Wildlife Management Area in Jackson, New Jersey!
Stay tuned for more updates as the season progresses!
Learn more:
- Tracking a Federally Listed Bat Species Across New Jersey
- Conserve Wildlife Foundation’s Bat Project
- White-nose Syndrome
- Conserve Wildlife Foundation’s Online Field Guide: Northern Long-eared Bat
- Northern Long-eared Bat Protected under Endangered Species Act
Lindsay McNamara is the Communications Manager for Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey.