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Bat Conservation International
Bat Conservation and Management Kentucky Workshops Mammoth Cave National Park BCI's successful field study workshop program has provided training to hundreds of wildlife biologists, educators, and other serious students of bat conservation. Through hands-on experience, participants learn bat conservation and research techniques including netting, trapping, radio tracking, night-vision observation, and habitat assessment. |
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Greetings to workshop participants!
Time flies doesn't it? Here are a couple of takes that may stir some memories.
As always, we recommend right-clicking the link and downloading the movies to disk.
Bat Camp Blues Kentucky 2006. Now that the ticks and chiggers have been scraped off, it's time to relive some of the action of the KY Workshop. Mammoth Cave, Coach, James netting, artificial trees, and even fireworks. Late night music provided by Chris Isaac. (Bentley also provided interesting musical entertainment, but hey, this is a family video.) Other participants included Edwin Boone, Scott Bosworth, Chris Clark, Zack Couch, Scott Harp, Patrick Hoban, Howie Huynh, Phyllis Romijn, Stephanie Varju, Matthew Varner, Kathleen Knight, Travis Lowe, Barry Nichols, Dale Noe, Liz Patony, Bentley Reynolds, Kimberly Williams-Guillen, Terry Wimberley, and Trish Wimberley. Staffed by Jim Kennedy, Kari Gaukler, John Chenger, Traci Hemberger, Rick Olson, Rick Toomey, Jerry Fant, and Patti Horton. Bat Camp Blues |
Mammoth Cave Gate Kentucky 2006. Zack and John snuck down to the Historic Entrance gate when everyone else was packing up nets. They recorded a few minutes of compelling footage of bats apparently being repelled by the stong draft of wind emerging from the cave. Hold your arrow keys to watch the last bat in slow motion diving into an air eddy formed by the gate bars. Mammoth Gate |
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Scenes from an Acoustic Workshop Kentucky 2007. Mammoth Cave National Park and BCI again organized a wildly successful Acoustic Monitoring workshop. The workshop was co-led by the icons of bat detector analysis software; Archmage of the ANABAT, Chris Corbin and the Sultan of SonoBat, Joe Szewczak. The Acoustic Workshop is a logistically intense weeklong workshop since a completely independant crew must handle catching bats for the participants to record, zipline, and light tag. Acoustic Workshop |
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