State's first Indiana bat colony discovered
Georgia Wild
May 4, 2012
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Before last month, the last time an Indiana bat had been seen in Georgia, LBJ was president.
That footnote changed April 14 when private consultants tracked one of the federally endangered bats from a Tennessee cave to a pine snag at Georgia’s Rich Mountain Wildlife Management Area, on the Chattahoochee National Forest near Blue Ridge. Even better, researchers monitoring the female bat daily since have counted another 13 bats using one of the same roost trees.
How many of the 13 are Indiana bats is not known, although the females do form larger groups in summer. Considering the number of bats and the time the Indiana bat outfitted with the mini transmitter has spent in the area, DNR biologist Trina Morris thinks the find represents the first maternity colony of these imperiled bats in Georgia.
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