Bat Houses
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You may know about bird houses… but Bat Conservation International, known as Bat Conservation International, wants you to know about bat houses, too.
A bat house is a structure that’s generally made out of wood and it has chambers inside of it. Rather than having an opening on the side, as you would for instance in a bird house, a bat house is open on the bottom. So the bats are able to fly in from underneath and them climb up into these chambers inside of the wooden house. You may have a bat house that holds 50 or fewer bats, or you may have a bat house that could hold 300 or more bats. Bats are very small, so a lot of bats can roost in a very small space.
Barbara French is a Biologist and Science Officer for Bat Conservation International.
We generally recommend that they are on a pole. Sometimes they’re on a side of a building, but it’s better that they’re not in trees because they don’t seem to do as well when they’re put in trees as they do if they’re on a poll.
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At BCI, we sell a bat house builder’s handbook. It has a lot of information on how to build a bat house with all of the instructions and all of the information you would need to build one in there.
Details about bat houses and the builder’s guide are available at www.batcon.org.
That’s our show for today…with research and writing help fro Loren Seeger…For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti
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