New Zealand has named the pekapeka-tou-roa, or long-tailed bat, as their Bird of the Year, despite the fact that bats are not birds. Some have criticized the call as a publicity stunt to recuperate ...

The pekapeka-tou-roa, New Zealand’s long-tailed bat, is special for many reasons. Bats are the island nation’s only native land mammal and the pekapeka-tou-roa is just one of two surviving species in ...

Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census, which will celebrate its ...

A: There are numerous suggestions on the internet, but one I like is: mass.gov/guides/bat-houses. The state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife offers a few good ...

Bats, lauded for scooping up mosquitoes and other nasty pests but reviled for drinking blood and spreading rabies, now have another unpopular habit to live down — it appears they eat songbirds, ...