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We hope you had a great bat week. Keep the celebration going by purchasing a MS Bat Working Group T-shirt. All proceeds go to fund bat conservation, research, and education in Mississippi. Check them out here.

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August 17 – 23, 2024

Register for the 4th Annual Bridge Blitz

WHO: Anyone is welcome to participate. We need Survey Leads who are experienced at identifying bats to species as well as volunteers to assist. No experience, no problem! We will team you up with a Survey Lead.

WHAT: The Bridge Blitz is a state-wide survey of bridges aimed at locating bat roosts and collecting data on roost characteristics and use by various species of bats

WHERE: Bridges located in your chosen area of the state.

WHEN: August 17 – 23 (each route is to be completed in a single day within the survey week)

WHY : To identify important roosts, learn what sites are preferred, and monitor known roosts annually within a consistent timeframe.

• A Virtual Training/Refresher on bat species identification and bridge survey techniques will be available for those interested.
• Please contact Alison McCartney (alison_mccartney@fws.org) for additional information or questions.

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We’d like to thank everyone that traveled to Natchez, MS to participate in the MBWG’s 21st Annual Mist Net Event. Fifty participants from eight states attended the event, representing a diversity of private organizations, consultants and government agencies. The event featured a training focused on identification of Mississippi’s bat species and guidance on listed species and the survey guidelines provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. On the second day of the event participants were able to tour St. Catherine’s Creek National Wildlife Refuge, visiting artificial roosts with Rafinesque’s big-eared bats and birding around the refuge’s wetlands. Following the event a field trip to a culvert roost provided an opportunity to see over a dozen northern long-eared bats. Netting occured on the Natchez Trace Parkway and Canemount Wildlife Management Area the first night and the Homochitto National Forest the second night. We hope everyone had safe travels home and can return to join us for next year’s event. Eleven sites were surveyed over the two nights of netting, with a total of 12 bats captured, representing five species (evening bat, eastern red bat, Seminole bat, big brown bat, and tricolored bat).

21st Annual Mist Net Event

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Please mark your calendars and join us on July 25-27, 2024 at Natchez State Park in southwest Mississippi for the MS Bat Working Group’s 21st Annual Mist Net Event. Participants will stay in cabins at the park and netting will occur on nearby public lands including the Natchez Trace Parkway and the Homochitto National Forest. A training session is planned for July 25, which will cover bat species identification, survey techniques, and background information about the federally listed species found in the state. A field trip on July 26 will feature artificial roosts housing thousands of southeastern myotis and dozens of Rafinesque’s big-eared bats on St. Catherine’s Creek National Wildlife Refuge.

Save the Date! 21st Annual Mist Net Event

It will be a wonderful opportunity for new volunteers or people needing to obtain handling experience, while generating valuable data regarding bat distribution and abundance. Student travel grants will be available to make attendance more accessible. We hope you’ll join us! Click HERE to register or, for more information, you may email us at msbats@hotmail.com.

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Two free teacher workshops will be hosted by Mandy Rigsby at the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) in Moss Point, MS on July 18 and 20, 2024. Space is limited so be sure to register as soon as possible by emailing avery.beck@dmr.ms.gov to save your seat.

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Over twenty members of the Mississippi Bat Working Group gathered on March 27, 2024 for an annual meeting held at Mississippi State University. Highlights of the event included acknowleding Past-Chair Becky Rosamond for her lengthy service to the group as she stepped down from thirteen years of leadership of the group. Shelton Whittington of the USFS was also recognized with the Service Award. A variety of presentations provided updates from MDWFP, the Jackson USFWS Ecological Services Office, and several projects conducted by Mississippi State University, ESI Consulting, and Virginia Tech. Attendees also provided feedback on a draft Bats of Mississippi poster. The group would like to thank the Vet School for providing meeting space and technical support and all of the speakers for providing wonderful presentations. We look forward to seeing many of you at our annual mist net event this summer.

2024 Annual Meeting at MSU

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Mississippi Roads with Walt Grayson recently aired an episode titled “Bugs!” on Mississippi Public Broadcasting. Although the episode focuses on insects, they also feature a segment on bats and the Mississippi Bat Working Group. Click here to see the full episode or skip ahead to 10:23 for just the bat segment. Thanks to Chester Martin, Becky Rosamond, and Alison McCartney for working with MPB to get this exposure for the group and Mississippi’s bats.

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The Mississippi Bat Working Group will hold our annual meeting on April 6 at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson, MS. The meeting is a free event and will feature updates on bat monitoring and research across the state as well as time to network with wonderful people passionate about bat conservation and education. Please check back later for a full agenda.

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A tri-colored bat with white-nosed syndrome was found in a Mississippi culvert this year by MDWFP biologist Katelin Cross. This marks the first instance of WNS in Mississippi. See the press release for more information.

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Our Annual Mist Net Event will be held on Holly Springs National Forest the nights of July 26-27. Food and lodging will be on your own so if you plan to attend you can go ahead and make arrangements. Local lodging options include Wall Doxey State Park, which offers camping and cabins, or there are hotels in the town of Holly Springs. A current rabies vaccination is required to handle bats, but anyone can participate and help set up and check nets. Registration will be $20 and includes an event t-shirt. Click here to register.

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Save the date (March 9-10, 2022) to join the MBWG at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Bat Diversity Network (SBDN) and the 32nd Annual Colloquium on the Mammals in the Southeastern US. For more information and to register visit sbdn.org.

Save the Date! March 9-10, 2022 Southeastern Bat

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Due to the risks posed by COVID-19 to our native bat species, the MBWG will be holding a virtual mist net event in October in place of the group’s traditional annual event. Join us October 24-31 on msbats.org or find us on Facebook to see original content highlighting Mississippi’s bats and the tools used to study and conserve them.

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MBWG members staffed a booth about bats at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science’s Pollinator Day event on March 11, 2020.

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For those of us involved in bat conservation in Mississippi, the unexpected loss of Kathy Shelton has been difficult. She was a voice and a champion for Mississippi’s wildlife, especially those less understood or appreciated species including bats. The Mississippi Bat Working Group will continue to work towards a greater appreciation and understanding of Mississippi’s diversity of bats in her memory.

Kathy Shelton Memorial Fundraiser

The membership of the MBWG would also like to memorialize Kathy Shelton with a bench at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. The bench is to be placed next to a similar bench which she donated in memory of her husband, Les Shelton. Members of the group are currently designing a wildlife element to be carved into the bench to commemorate her passion for wildlife conservation.

If you would like to contribute to this memorial the MBWG has a few ways you may donate towards the cost of purchasing the bench.

1. You may send a check made out to MBWG to P.O. Box 1070, Grenada, MS 38901. Please indicate in the memo that it is for Kathy.
2. You may make a donation via our Facebook page. 3
3. You may make a donation on this page via Paypal.

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1. Click on the yellow Donate button.
2. If you have an account you can enter your login information. If you don’t you have the option to create an account. (You must have an account to donate via Paypal.)
3. Along the top of the screen, click on “Send & Request”.
4. Enter msbats@hotmail.com in the text box and click the blue next button.
5. Enter the amount you would like to donate and please add a note so we know it is to go towards Kathy’s bench. Click the blue next button.
6. You will be prompted to enter your payment information and then you can click “Send Payment Now”. (If you enter a new card, please make sure your note indicating the purpose of the donation didn’t get erased.)
7. You will get a confirmation of your donation sent to the email linked to your Paypal account.

Thank you for helping preserve Kathy’s memory.

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