Bats in the Murray Mallee

BAT DETECTING

 

Do you have bats on your property?

 

Would you like to know what types of bats are in your area?

 

As the nights get warmer in the Mallee and insect activity increases, so too does the activity of bats as they search for food. While they are very effective at insect control, bats also play a vital role in seed distribution and pollination making them a key element of the ecological communities that they live in.

 

They drink from dams and open tanks and roost in tree hollows and bark, bat boxes, caves, and roofs and walls of buildings, all of which are plentiful in the SA Murray Mallee.

 

The Murray Mallee LAP has Bat Detector Kits available for landholders to use for recording bat calls on their properties. These kits are simple to use and can help to determine the type of bats that use habitat on and around your property or that feed in the area.

 

Information gathered from the recordings assists in improving the current data available on these mammals.

 

If you are interested in recording bat calls using the Bat Detector Kits contact:

Rowena or Gayle at the MMLAP office on mmlap@internode.on.net or 8531 2066.