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VOL - Bat Night at Minnesota Point
Bat Night at Minnesota Point website
Walter F. Stock Pumping Station, Park Point Nature TrailDuluth, MN 55802
*This event is highly weather dependent; it will occur on ONE of the nights between the dates of September 14th through the 19th. For the exact date of the event please keep an eye on the Park Point Community Club and the Minnesota Scientific & Natural Areas' Facebook pages or email arika.mcgraw@state.mn.us to be added to an email notification list. The date will be determined the week before the event.*
Join bat biologists as they investigate a group of nocturnal creatures that call Minnesota Point home, BATS! While a few surveys have been done there is still a lot we do not know about these insect-devouring locals, come out and see how we plan to change that.
The evening will start at the Walter F. Stock Pumping station so make sure to factor in the time needed to hike the 0.8 mile of trail from the parking area. At 6 pm there will be an introduction to the bats of Minnesota, what the Minnesota DNR and the US Fish and Wildlife service are working on with bats, and Indigenous storytelling about bats. Then we will move on to the data gathering activities.
Observe DNR mammologists as they gather bats that were caught in carefully placed nets to bring back to a processing tent near the pumping station. There they will record information such as species before releasing them.
Others can join scientists as they go on walks up and down the beach using Echo Meters to record the sounds bats make to help navigate and find food. These devices are connected to a tablet and will detect and record the bats in real time. You will be able to see the color spectrographs of their echolocation and even get a potential species identification.
Both of these activities will happen simultaneously and participants can filter back and forth between them.
Park near the Sky Harbor Airport and hike 0.8 miles down the Park Point Nature Trail to the Walter F. Stock Pumping Station where the base of operations for this event will be located.
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