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Concerned I Might Have Been Bitten by a Bat

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Earlier, while I was lying in bed and using my phone, when two bats entered my room through the windows. Just as I was closing the door behind me, one of the bats flew out, only to then dart around the rest of my apartment. Upon reopening my bedroom door, I was taken aback to see two more bats flying around inside.

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Loner, Drifter: More on the Hoary Bat

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I cannot get the Hoary Bat out of my head. Hoary Bats roost in trees, not caves. So the Hoary Bat is migratory. Migration makes them vulnerable to straying: Accidental Hoary Bats have been found as far afield as Bermuda and Iceland. Shoot, it’s not working!

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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And another one,” she added, “in a tampon box.” “A Big Brown Bat in a large glass terrarium,” said Marlene Ehresman in Iowa, “because the people wanted to make sure it wouldn’t escape.” Bat finders often want to insure there’s enough room between them and the bat. Sometimes you just have to trust the finders.”

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Parrots in My Costa Rican Neighborhood

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This is the only parrot in the Central Valley with a short tail, white crown, and bat-like flight whereby the wings are flapped below the plane of the body. At least the tree is not found on their property and this probably gives it some protection. White-fronted Parrot. The other regular parrot around here is this species.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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They look crap but presumably offer some protection for the chicks, though not from each other (see the murderous activities within the nests in my previous post ). The Bat Hawk mainly eats bats, as the name suggests – in a curiously precise statement, Wikipedia claims that 49.3% Then, there are raptors.

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Grassy Green Space in the Central Valley- Trash Habitat or Prime Real Estate for Oddball Birds?

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Keep birding and you might see a White-tailed Kite hovering as it hunts rodents and one of the few Bat Falcons in the Valley might dash into view. I worry because no protection is given to such supposed “trash” habitats. You might hear the prominent notes of a Gray Hawk and Southern Lapwings.

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Sentient: a book review

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The vampire bat is the vehicle for a discussion of what Higgins calls the human sense of pleasure and pain (but not, as to the latter, for the reason you might think). (Sachs’s case studies and writings are referred to a lot in Sentient.). Sentient is a fine addition to that field. __.

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