Antenna system to identify bats

Photo By/Credit

Shannon, Keith/USFWS

Date Shot/Created
10/02/2014
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
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Biologists can identify when bats mounted with PIT (passive integrated transponders) tags pass through this fixed antenna system at the cave's entrance. Studying bat movements is important to understanding the effects of white-nose syndrome, which arouses bats from hibernation.
Subject tags
Work of the Service
Surveying
Mark-recapture studies
Endangered and/or Threatened species
Conservation
Biologists (USFWS)