This Story Map Tour discusses BLM sites that are excellent places to view bats, which can be seen without lights in the evening at twilight, foraging over the water and along canyon walls and riverside (riparian) vegetation. Once darkness falls, a strong flashlight or headlamp can be used to track bats in flight, and a bat detector can pick up the bat’s echolocation calls well into the night. The reason these sites are so well-used is they provide many of bats most important needs in close proximity; cliff crevices and old trees for roosting, water for drinking, and water and riparian vegetation that produces and attracts large numbers of bats insect prey. All the sites listed will have the greatest amount of activity during the first [...]
