| ThisLittle Brown Myotis was radio-tagged at the large Woodard Bay colony. Rightaway this bat flew 8.5 miles (13 km) to Capitol Lake, and spent the entire night feedingthere. The miniature radio-tag weighs only about 1/3 of a gram (1/80 of an ounce) and is gently glued to her fur using a medical adhesive.Although I can sometimes hear it up to a couple of miles away on my tracking radios,when they are skimming the surface of the water feeding on midgesand caddis flies, the range is only several hundred meters.
| August2003
Posterpresentation of the 2003-2004 Myotis bat  Ourown BAT RADAR images showing foragingbats at Capitol Lake, Olympia, WA |
(aboutthe Woodard Bay colony) | |
"So many bats... so little time."
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