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Bat Conservation and Management
Приєднався 6 бер 2016
Since 1998 Bat Conservation and Management has specialized in bat detector technology and advances in bat acoustic monitoring; performing compliance surveys for business and industry; conducting professional training workshops for wildlife biologists just getting their start with bats; and providing fully tested equipment and survey gear for the professional bat worker. We also assist with solving bat/human conflicts, bats in buildings problems, and provide artificial roosts for bats.
BCM Super Rocket Roost
There are over a half dozen distinctive types of artificial roosts for bats. Most people have heard of a "bat house". This is a "rocket box" type bat house that mimics a dead tree containing peeling bark and various shaped crevices. Bat houses can be used to mitigate the loss of roosts when trees are removed and/or buildings are made inaccessible to bats. At least 60 little brown bats emerged from this 8'' diameter Super Rocket Roost built by Bat Conservation and Management in Pennsylvania. BCM has been building fantastically successful bat roosts for over 30 years. www.batmanagement.com
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BCM Super Rocket Roost 20240708
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My Super Rocket Roost installed 2 summers ago... we counted over 60 emerging last week, what seems to be a mix of little and big brown bats. This relatively tall roost has a bunch of "wedge shaped" roost crevices as well as some vertical crevices, and a quite durable resin shell. It's bat approved! BCM bat houses outlast any wooden version, and never need painting. batmanagement.com/coll.../hom...
Super Rocket Roost Blooper
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Blooper reel of the How to Install a Super Rocket Roost; Scoutlyn and Lori were getting a little punchy! If anyone wondered why it can take -hours- to film a 3 minute video... this should provide some insight. For the full effect watch the finished version here: ua-cam.com/video/gWxq8qrXE7Q/v-deo.html
How to Install a Super Rocket Roost Bat House
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Watch Lori and Scout as they have fun with the simple steps to install Bat Conservation and Management's Super Rocket Roost. This a a type of "rocket box bat house" that mimics a dead tree with different types of crevices, and has a protective UV-resistant shell. There's nothing to paint or maintain, guano falls out naturally. Like most bat houses, this needs installed somewhere that receives d...
Case Study Comparing Bat Capture and Acoustic Monitoring
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A small demonstration making the case as to why it is best to combine acoustic monitoring with physical capture of bats, when the best representation of species is desired. Presented at the Northeast Bat Working Group conference, January 2023 in Burlington, Vermont by John Chenger, President, Bat Conservation and Management, Inc.
Bat Entering Super Rocket Roost
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A little brown bat entering a Super Rocket Roost built by Bat Conservation and Management. www.batmanagement.com
Bat in Cave - Trail Cam Trap
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Camera trap footage showing a bat checking out a small cave www.batmanagement.com
Bats Entering Rocket Box
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www.batmanagement.com Bats entering a BCM Rocket Roost
Bats Emerging and Landing on BCM Rocket Box
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Trail camera video of bats emerging and landing on a BCM Rocket Roost. www.batmanagement.com
Pettersson M500 Bat Detector Microphone
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This is an overview of the Pettersson M500 microphone. The microphone is sensitive to ultrasound from about 5 kHz up to about 192 kHz, and is usually used to eavesdrop on bats foraging and feeding at night. It must be connected to a smart-device or computer using compatible capture software. Some software such as SonoBatLIVE runs analysis on the recordings and can suggest what bat species made ...
SonoBatLIVE Demo
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This is a demonstration on how to use the SonoBatLIVE bat call capture software. This is the most advanced bat call recording software available. System requirements are Windows 10 device, and a ultrasonic microphone from Pettersson or Binary Acoustic Technology.
How To Use a Simple Bat Detector
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"Bat detectors" don't really detect bats, they convert ultrasound bats use to navigate into sounds humans can hear in real time. Watch Scout as she introduces a simple bat detector, and uses it in total darkness to search for bats emerging from of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave in the world.
Mexican Freetail Feeding Buzz in Realtime
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Humans cannot process sounds as fast as bats produce them. To use, all their calls sound like simple "ticks". This is a recording of a Mexican freetail bat feeding buzz in real time, as it occurred. When this bat attacks an insect, it produces as many as 200 calls per second in the final fraction of a second before contacting a target.
Mexican Freetail Bat feeding buzz in Time Expansion (10x slow)
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Mexican Freetail Bat feeding buzz in Time Expansion (10x slow)
How to Assemble a ColonyLodge Bat House
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How to Assemble a ColonyLodge Bat House
Why Merlin Tuttle Likes BCM Bat Houses
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Why Merlin Tuttle Likes BCM Bat Houses
How to Install a Bat House on a Building
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How to Install a Bat House on a Building
Super Rocket Roost Bat House One Month Success
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Super Rocket Roost Bat House One Month Success
That is an excellent way of showing that it is working. Thanks for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
Would you happen to have a follow-up report on how well this worked?
Will it matter if your building is metal ??
No- I've seen success with multiple species across the country occupying bat houses attached to metal buildings.
I am a carpenter and I think that is a fantastic job you guys did! I will try your method! Great video thank you very much! And I will be sure to say just add bats! Ha ha🤘😎🤘✌️
Awesome! Thank you!
Hi. How about common mice? they speak about the same frequency
Bat detectors will pick out mice, squirrels, and other rodent critters. The SonoBatLIVE software filters those out on the fly, or you use other apps to remove non-bat noise from your collection.
interesting project. what concerns me is maybe cats or other predators climbing up the pole. what experience do you guys have with cats climbing up the pole?
Haven't heard of a cat, but as long as there not other perch nearby then wrapping the post with some metal flashing will do the trick.
I'd love to get one of these 4 chamber bat houses, but I would want to mount it on a pole. Would I have to bury the pole into the ground or are there any poles with a flat base, that can sit flush on the surface of the ground?
You need to cement it ~2.5' into the ground, or eventually it will fall over. Out colleague Terry came up with a design that is bolted to a pallet that might not fall over if on flat ground, and would be movable. Find him in this group: facebook.com/groups/687900871881857
Bet it ends up full of wasp
Bats co-exist with paper wasps, if the nests take up too much room they can be scraped out when bats aren't present.
@@batconservationandmanageme4343 Thanks I didn’t know that.
Hate the skeeters. Love the bats.
Her name is Sage. The irony. haha
Definitely flexing a little but holding on strong. Wind is a very powerful force of nature. I wonder if someone was to build one of these bat house banks with 6×6 main vertical posts and 4×4 cross beams if it would stiffen it up??
We build a structure 3 on a side using 6x6 posts. I wouldn't go wider than that anymore due to the wind load. batmanagement.com/products/modular-mini-bat-condo-3x3
I've never seen guano, but I bet it is a lot like my ex-wife
It's much sought after...
Such a happy little pup!
Do you have any experience with this style of bar house in Arizona. Specifically Tucson? Any particular suggestions for install in a hot climate?
Bat houses in the lowland (Tucson-Phoenix) need to be -fully- shaded all day, attached to some kind of structure. Those are the only successful bat houses I know of in that area. The ColonyCabin in tan or even the DayLodge would be good to experiment with. batmanagement.com/products/colonycabin
Bats are very social beings and really do care about their babies. Thank you for everything you do to help Bats in trouble.🥺🦇🥰
Hi! Hope you're doing well. I just bougth a Pettersson M500 and I´m having problems while connecting it to my smartphone because the app says that it doesn't detect the microphone. I'm looking for a new smartphone or tablet to connect it and test it, Could you please recommend me a device that claims to be compatible with the Android version of the app and that detects the microphone? I´m currently working on a project in which I use this and another device for detecting bats in my region. If you could help me with this question, I would greatly appreciate it!.
The best software to capture bat calls is on PC; the smartphones are a bit of a gimmick used for public interpretation. If you want good recordings for analysis, record onto a PC tablet or "2 in 1" device from any of the leaders (Surface Pro, Dell, etc.) The device needs a real I5 or I7 processor and Windows 10 or higher to run good recording software like BatSoundTouch that is free with the M500 or SonoBatLIVE which is a separate program. batmanagement.com/collections/software
So, who makes this bat house?
batmanagement.com/collections/homeowner-sized-bat-houses
Do I need to worry about bat excretement if a bat house is mounted over a deck on the southside of a house?
Yes- if there's no other option you might want to put a large pot directly under the bat house to catch the majority of droppings. Also use the mount kit or your own 2x4 spacers to bring the box slightly away from the building, which will minimize urine dripping.
She loves her baby 💖💖💖🦇🦇
I want to thank you with all my heart for making this video 🙏 I suffer from severe chiroptophobia. It has destroyed my life. I don’t go outside anymore. At times, I’ve struggled to go to work or even to the store. I can’t do simple task like getting the mail or walking my children to school. I honestly love bats. I think they are incredible. I want so desperately to be able to leave my house again someday, to enjoy the outdoors, to hike, and camp again. I have been in treatment for 6 months this year. I was just driving home from treatment, wondering if this life is worth living, feeling the most desperate despair. I just want to go outside again! Then I found your video… I can’t tell you how desperately I needed to see this. You have given me hope! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
The Dark One Is Favorite
Let's Get Busy! 0:56
Cute!!
Digging 1:10 Post Mount Kit 1:25 4 Chamber Colony Bat House 2:19 Attach It To Our Pole Using Our Lag Bolts And 9 16 Socket Bit 2:46 Digging Pole Stuck In The Hole 3:37
Why Is Bat House 0:30 Cost Savings 0:52 Social Chatter 1:28 Night Vision 2:07
What is types of poll? What,s it,s name?
Amen
Recorded horizontally:)
as any video should be
This is very cool to see. I love these little night sky puppies. I do have a question about bat houses. Do they prefer building mounted houses, pole mounted houses or either is of equal success or one of each Trying to go for the most appealing options for bats. Like bat magnets if you know what I mean. Nothing bad. They will be big multi chamber house. Between four to seven chambers. We have mainly big brown bats around here in Kentucky. Any help, information or experience is highly appreciated and thank you.
All our manuals are online... batmanagement.com/pages/manuals
That is awesome! I love bats. How many bats are living in there?? It seemed like a never ending flow of bats. How much would it cost for this complete setup as seen here?? We have big brown bats and some little brown bats around here. Not these kind of numbers but I would love to eventually have a colony this size in some of these houses. It would be awesomeness.
About 750 or so in north FL. When you get around 1000, they take so long to come out it's too dark to really see them. So, this and the Super Duplex are a great size for a large colony without breaking the bank, compared to other solutions. batmanagement.com/products/super-duplex-bat-house
Mother Golbat and Zubat pup
Hey i have no bats plz sent me some bats
No can do- that would be like trying to buy a bald eagle.... state wildlife agencies kinda frown on that.
Any bats come?
Bat Roosting Box
Sure did: ua-cam.com/video/R4VMVEiXqhE/v-deo.html
I'm in Wisconsin. Where did you get your bat condo? How much $
We make them, and ship them UPS: batmanagement.com/collections/bat-houses-for-mitigation-projects
Why so expensive..
You say in the description that you go into detail about the pole's hinge pin, but don't see another video about that. Could you describe the process there? Or link the video?
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Putting varish on the extra roost area is not recommended, most info sites.
There is no data that bats don't like a particular stain or paint. Data actually shows unfinished bat houses are less successful than finished ones, and obviously finished ones are going to last much, much longer baking in the sun.
I want one of these so bad i love bats but there's a million trees around me and I think 🤔 there is one spot I can place it where there's no trees and sun all day maybe I can place it there idk
Definitely worth a shot. Just imagine being able to enjoy a cool night outside without getting eaten up or aggravated by flying insects. That's my plan but I am going to make my own bat houses because finances are tight.
See the manual "All About Bat Houses" for some siting ideas: batmanagement.com/pages/manuals
Looks like they can not easily find opening. I am researching Bat houses. Thank you for video
Bats commonly do "touch and gos", especially juveniles. This can be seen in any of my videos regardless of bat house type. It fun to watch and can be caught on the video setting of a good trail cam.
Perfect find..just made my first woodshop bat house...now to hang up..
Sage is so pretty
For what it's worth, wood into concrete will rot the wood all the same. Concrete is very porous.
💖 'promosm'
So cute 😊 Thanks for the video.
How do you make sure you don't cause a leak through the holes you've put in the wood siding slats?
You could silicone caulk the mount to the siding. during install. Usually the overhanging eves keep the bat house pretty dry though and not an issue.
This is a very cool design. I will subscribe and be looking for more video updates on this style of bat house.
ua-cam.com/video/R4VMVEiXqhE/v-deo.html
Where can I get the bathouse?
batmanagement.com/collections/homeowner-sized-bat-houses
How much does the bat detector cost ? Where and how can buy it including accessories, if any. Thanks.... from Bangladesh
That was awesome. I laughed the whole way through it 😂 That was great. I needed that. I hope you have more videos like it.