Our workshops provide an opportunity to obtain experience with bat capture, handling, and monitoring field techniques required by agencies and professionals to fulfill a variety of research needs.
Our classes provide intensive training in bat capture and survey techniques using mist nets, harp traps, acoustic monitoring, and data analysis to perform surveys and inventories for bats. A Bat Hibernacula & Gate workshop features a unique introduction to cave and mine assessments for bats which culminates in constructing a bat-friendly closure on an abandoned mine. A more public-oriented bat house workshop gives insight on why bats are in buildings, what makes a good bat house, and how to manage bats with artificial roosts. Few wildlife degree programs receive such in-depth exposure and training with these techniques making these programs invaluable to consultants, agency biologists, and land managers with special concern bat habitat.
Bat Capture and Handling:intensive training in physical capture techniques including elaborate mist nets, harp traps, video monitoring, and data management.
Bat Acoustic Workshops: shorter 2-3 day data management & species identification classes including an online option, and 5 day classes which add field recording opportunities.
Bat Hibernacula & Gate Workshop: how to recognize, enhance, restore, and even create critically important winter bat hibernacula.
One Day (or Night!) Events: BCM organizes or participates in several more public oriented or kid-friendlier events usually with free registration. Join BCM's biologists for talks about why bats are in buildings, how to make a good bat house, and how we study bats.
"I feel much more confident in my identification skills than I did before this course. Also I learned much more about bat behavior and how that impacts mist net set up.”
"AMAZING. Topics were explained with patience and there was always a kind helping hand. I was never made to feel stupid for asking questions, and everyone went above and beyond to ensure all workshop participants got equal opportunities.”
“Its perfect! You all go above + beyond to ensure your students get all they need! Thank you ALL SO VERY MUCH. This will help my career + my family”
"Being able to operate the different detectors and microphones and post-processing the data was extremely valuable. I'll be able to apply that knowledge to my future acoustic survey endeavors.”
"Walking through the whole survey process. It was really helpful to do everything hands-on. It is one thing to learn about a technique or equipment, and another to do it yourself and have experts there to help!”
“I really appreciated the [expedition] night…. I am a bit of an introvert, and having a smaller more relaxed group was extremely beneficial to me. Certainly my most favorite part of the workshop.”
Once batty, stay batty
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