Official PayPal Seal
online donation options

Fly By Night, Inc. is recognized by the IRS as a Section 501(c)(3) non-profit / tax-exempt organization.

Donations are tax-deductible and all donated funds directly support our bat conservation efforts.  CH12360

 

All content on this site is property of Fly By Night, Inc, and not to be duplicated for use without written permission

Free Info

Text Box: Facts &Trivia

Text Box: Books, Etc.

Text Box: Species Info

What We Do

Text Box: Research

Text Box: Management

Text Box: Rescue

Text Box: Education

Text Box: Bat Houses

Who We Are

Text Box: Firm

Text Box: Experts

Text Box: Publications

Text Box: Clients

Text Box: Spot-Light

How To Help

Text Box: Wish List

Text Box: FBN Friends

Text Box: Guest Book

Take A Peek

Text Box: Live BatCam

Text Box: PhotoGallery

Text Box: Contact Us

NEW

Visit Our Live Bat House Cam on YouTube

Text Box: Home

Fly By Night, Inc

Promote Your Page Too

Field Research and Consulting Services

·  National Park Service: species inventory and monitoring at Everglades, Big Cypress, Biscayne Dry Tortugas, Buck Island and Virgin Islands National Parks

· South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD): Conduct radio-telemetry study to identify roost sites and foraging areas of Corynorhinus rafinesquii, the southeastern big-eared bat, on the Lower Reedy Creek Management Area. 1998 – 2000.  Repeated 2002 – 2003.

· SFWMD: Provide design for bat house built for southeastern big-eared bats on the Disney Wilderness Preserve (DWP). 1999.

· The Nature Conservancy and Walt Disney Company: Bat diversity survey on the DWP, Kissimmee, FL. Also monitored population of southeastern big-eared bats (Corynorhinus rafinesquii macrotis) in abandoned structure and new bat houses on this site. 1995-2000.

· United States Forest Service (USFS):  species diversity survey = Ocala National Forest

· United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS): South Florida rare bat survey = focus on Florida mastiff bat (Eumops floridanus)

· Florida Cooperative Research Unit/USGS:  SAR (Species at Risk) bat survey at Camp Blanding, a Florida Army National Guard facility

· Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI): NAS Jacksonville, Rodman Bomb Target

· Other military surveys = Moody AFB, Tyndal AFB, MCRTC (Jacksonville), MCAS (Beaufort, SC)

· County of Volusia, Florida: bat species diversity survey of county parks. Completed 1998.

· Bat Conservation International (BCI): Study of bat house use in central Florida. Monitored temperature in several bat house designs and occupied roosts. 1993-1997.

· BCI: Assisted in radio-tracking study of the Mexican long-tongued bat (Leptonycteris curasoae) in Kino Bay, Sonora, Mexico. 1990.

· Radio tracked bats to assist researcher Sue Barnard with  A digestion trial on big brown bats to study on the nutritional needs of  insectivorous bats

· 3-D International: Assisted with bat diversity survey of Cape Canaveral Air Station, Brevard Co., FL 1996.

· US Naval Air Station at Boca Chica, FL.: Consult on nuisance bats (Cuban house bats, Molossus molossus) in facility buildings and on design for bat house to be constructed

FBN Research Projects

Research and Consulting is conducted for private and government organizations needing information on bat related issues. Scientific information on species diversity and populations is gathered during surveys using bat detectors (both hand-held and Anabat), mist nets / harp traps, radio-telemetry, visual surveys and a professionally scent trained ‘bat dog’. Data loggers (HOBO and Campbell) are used to monitor environmental parameters of known and experimental roost sites.

Several of our research projects are listed below (1990 – present) =