Bats bats bats! Belize bats!

It has been extraordinary, wonderful, exciting, thrilling, lovely, great AND awesome to be here in Belize catching bats and working in the field with wonderful scientists such as Nancy Simmons, Sharon Swartz and the 'leader of the pack' Brock Fenton (that is a short list of those who are in attendance- let me say LOTS of other great people!)  Lots of nets, harp traps and echolocation recording as well as radio telemetry is happening all around as we speak!

As things are so busy I only have time to mention a few of the most exciting species we've caught so far!  Photos and information on each will follow soon.

Belize bats (May 2013):

>Carollia perspicillata- common name: Seba's short-tailed bat

(a male shown here eating a piece of papaya)

Artibeus lituratis
 *image/info coming soon

Eptesicus furnalis
 *image/info coming soon
 
Myotis keaysii
  *image/info coming soon

Desmodus rotundus
 *image/info coming soon

Rhynchonycteris naso
 *image/info coming soon
 
and MORE (I think we have ~19 species so far)!