Help needed – Count Bats For Conservation

Now's your chance to be the most creative host in your neighborhood – host a bat count this summer! Two of Pennsylvania's bat species commonly use buildings as their summer roosts. Abandoned houses, barns, church steeples – and even currently-occupied structures – can provide a summer home to female bats and their young. Monitoring these "maternity colonies" can give biologists a good idea of how bat populations in an area are doing from year to year. With the occurrence of White Nose Syndrome in Pennsylvania, monitoring these colonies is more important than ever.

• The attached documents provide all of the information you need to get started. To register a new site, fill out the Site and Landowner Data Form and the Surveyor Information Data Form found in the Protocol and Survey Forms link below. If you have any questions, please call the Bureau of Wildlife Management at 717-787-5529. Grab a friend or two and go batty this summer for conservation!