Happy bat week!
This is The Mexican free-tailed bat
They are medium sized and distinctively have reddish to dark brown or gray fur.
Their tail is longer than the tail membrane which is why they ge...
Bat Week 2025 - October 24 - 31
Did you know a single bat can eat up to 1,000 mosquitoes in just one hour? Talk about natural pest control! Bats help keep our evenings more comfortable and ecosystems...
🦇💉 ¡ Los vampiros son murciélagos !
¡Sí, existen murciélagos que se alimentan de sangre! Pero son solo tres especies de más de 1,400 que habitan en el mundo. Estos “murciélagos vampiro” viven en Amér...
It’s #BatWeek! 🦇 To kick it off, AZGFD bat biologist Angie McIntire reads a short poem by Douglas Florian called “The Bat.” We’ll share a few more bat posts this week leading up to Halloween. What’s Y...
October 26, 2025
Bat Week has begun and we’re celebrating our most frequent “flyer” that comes to us for care: the Big Brown Bat — a very adaptable bat to both rural and urban environments. The bat pictured is our new...
🌙 Day 3 – Bat Week Fact
🦇 Fact: Bats in our region can live 20 to 30 years in the wild, which is quite remarkable for their size.
🌿 Local connection: By creating or preserving bat-friendly habitats...
A new milestone has been reached in the world of bat taxonomy. We have been saying for a while that there are more than 1,400 bat species in the world, but we can now officially say that there are 1,5...