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Endangered Species Program

Conserving and restoring threatened and endangered species and their ecosystems

Indiana Bat

Summer Survey Guidance

A team of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists, with help from interested parties, developed new rangewide guidance for conducting summer surveys for Indiana bats.

This Summer Survey Guidance can also be used for northern long-eared bat.

Biologists inspecting a netted Indiana bat.

Biologists inspecting a captured bat.

Photo by USFWS

Automated Acoustic Bat ID Software Programs

History of the Summer Survey Guidance Development

2018 Summer Survey Guidelines

2018 Summer Survey Guidelines April 2018

Addendum 1 - Methods to Evaluate and Develop Minimum Recommended Summer Survey Effort for Indiana Bats: White Paper

Questions and Answers about Use of Standardized Spreadsheets for Reporting Bat Survey Data

2018 Bat Reporting Spreadsheets

Instructions - revised April 2018

Region 2 Spreadsheet (Excel)

Region 3 Spreadsheet (Excel) - revised 2018

Region 4 Spreadsheet (Excel) - revised 2018

Region 5 Spreadsheet (Excel) - revised 2018

Region 6 Spreadsheet (Excel) - revised 2018

Bat ID Acoustic Software

Automated Acoustic Bat ID Software Programs

Background

Methods to Evaluate and Develop Minimum Recommended Summer Survey Effort for Indiana Bats: White Paper Jan. 13, 2014 (13-page PDF )

Draft Acoustic Bat Identification Software Testing Criteria (1-page PDF )

Glossary of Acoustic Bat Survey Terms