Photos courtesy of ANNIE PFLUEGER
Top: Bats are wonderfully beneficial creatures that provide invaluable services to both natural ecosystems and human economies around the world.
Above: Bat photos from the “Mist Netting” research done at the refuge in 2013.
August 3, 2017
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August 3, 2017 1 a.m.
Bats: The only mammal that can fly!
BONNERS FERRY — My wife Debbie and I stood wide-eyed and amazed as a whirlwind of gray bats whirled and gyrated in the dim light of dusk south of the machinery shed at the Kootenai Wildlife Refuge. Attached to the machinery shed were four bat houses full of nearly 250 bats each.