Bat addition to Bird of the Year competition welcomed
The long-tailed bat is the first mammal to go up against a strong field of native birds in the country's Bird of the Year competition, and its inclusion has ruffled a few feathers.
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The long-tailed bat is the first mammal to go up against a strong field of native birds in the country's Bird of the Year competition, and its inclusion has ruffled a few feathers.
The long-tailed bat is the first mammal to go up against a strong field of native birds in the country's Bird of the Year competition, and its inclusion has ruffled a few feathers.
JOHN BISSET/Stuff Ines Stager of the Talbot Forest Working Group, pictured at the site of the new NPD station in Geraldine, is pleased the company is working to mitigate the impact of its lighting on a nearby colony of bats. A fuel company is going into bat for the well-being of a critically-endangered species that will soon have to fly over its new 24-hour service station in South Canterbury. The NPD service station site in Geraldine sits directly in the flight path taken at night by a colony of critically endangered long-tailed bats living in nearby Talbot Forest. The bats fly overhead to ...