Biologists at Georgia Ecological Services recently installed acoustic monitoring devices that will record bat acoustic data for several at-risk and declining species in Georgia. This info will support a larger effort to provide robust guidance on the necessary level of effort (i.e., detector nights) needed to assess Indiana bats and northern long-eared bats in the Appalachians and Midwest, and begin to establish these parameters for other species, such as the tri-colored bat in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain of Georgia and the Carolinas.
Our office is monitoring six detector locations: three sites at Whitehall Forest in Athens, and three sites along the Ocmulgee River at Oaky Woods and Ocmulgee Wildlife Management Areas south of Macon.
For more information, visit Bat Conservation in Georgia!
