Annapolis Valley Bat Box Project

05/09/2024

Really makes you think.... 🙏 💯 🙇

05/09/2024

I'm happy to announce that we will be continuing through our waitlist for bat boxes! Starting over the weekend! See you soon!

06/19/2023

Check out this talk tonight in Wolfville or on Zoom!

Reminder of our talk on bats with Taryn Muldoon happening tomorrow evening at 7:30 pm!! 🦇

The next meeting and nature talk of the Blomidon Naturalists Society will take place tomorrow, Monday June 19th. Join us at 7:30 pm in-person at the Wolfville Lions Club or online on Zoom. Social with tea & snacks starts at 7:00 pm, then the meeting & talk start at 7:30 pm.

Our presenter this month is Taryn Muldoon, winner of our Merritt Gibson Award for her research work on endangered bats. Taryn will give a talk entitled, "Once There Were Thousands: Bats, Their Parasites, and White-Nose Syndrome." Come learn about bats in Nova Scotia, their challenges and ways we can help.

We've been having some issues with our Zoom account access so please find the following Zoom link to register for the talk. If you encounter any problems please email [email protected]. Thanks for understanding!

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0odOCsrDopHdPrF7GrBonxyc5wphgYSQAs #/registration

06/19/2023

Reminder of our talk on bats with Taryn Muldoon happening tomorrow evening at 7:30 pm!! 🦇

The next meeting and nature talk of the Blomidon Naturalists Society will take place tomorrow, Monday June 19th. Join us at 7:30 pm in-person at the Wolfville Lions Club or online on Zoom. Social with tea & snacks starts at 7:00 pm, then the meeting & talk start at 7:30 pm.

Our presenter this month is Taryn Muldoon, winner of our Merritt Gibson Award for her research work on endangered bats. Taryn will give a talk entitled, "Once There Were Thousands: Bats, Their Parasites, and White-Nose Syndrome." Come learn about bats in Nova Scotia, their challenges and ways we can help.

We've been having some issues with our Zoom account access so please find the following Zoom link to register for the talk. If you encounter any problems please email [email protected]. Thanks for understanding!

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0odOCsrDopHdPrF7GrBonxyc5wphgYSQAs #/registration

05/24/2023

Bat researchers are working together to study and monitor endangered bats. We are looking for landowners with bats in all counties of Nova Scotia. If you have bats on your property, please get in touch for more information by contacting Taryn at [email protected]. Thank you for helping us help bats!

This research is a collaboration between the Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute, the Canadian National Bat Box Project, and Acadia University. Research includes collecting guano (p**p), swabbing active boxes, and counting bats to aid population monitoring.

01/04/2023

A BIG thank you thank you to Acadia University’s Art and the Environment class members for volunteering their artwork to our project.

Professor Judith Leidl deserves a big thank you for bringing in artist Twila Robar-Decoste (who has also donated her piece) to help lead the workshop on bat artwork!

We will be auctioning off the pieces as soon as we get them framed and ready for distribution. With the funds we will purchase more lumber and non-toxic stain and continue getting our boxes out into the community!

Thanks so much to everyone involved!

01/04/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJdAAQInI78&ab_channel=CECNB-Co-operativeEnterpriseCouncilofNB

This is a great educational piece from our webinar in 2021: For the classroom or perhaps for an evening cleaning around the house! Give it a watch and a listen!

The Annapolis Valley Bat Box Project welcomes bat experts Hugh Broders, Lori Phinney, Kristen Lear, James Page, and Kate Rugroden to share their expertise ab...

06/22/2022

Another huge thank you to Central Kings High school. Their students build 28 boxes for us to be distributed throughout the summer.

We appreciate the school's continued support and the staff and students responsible for getting this done during a complicated COVID school year! Their ability to combine the hard skills of woodworking with the added benefit of conservation could bring up an increasingly dedicated generation of conservation minded individuals! Now comes the process of applying the non-toxic stain, then off to your backyard!

Those who have been patiently waiting may be getting an email soon! Hold on tight!

04/09/2022

Calling landowners with bats on their properties!

Do you have bats on your property? Are you interested in being part of a research study on bat colony health?

I am conducting an honours research study through Acadia looking for evidence of white-nose syndrome and intestinal parasites in bat colonies across Nova Scotia by collecting guano (p**p) from inhabited roosts. If you have a known summer roost for bats, i.e. a bat box or barn that bats consistently visit in the summer, and are interested in being part of this study, please fill out the form below. Selected properties would be visited for guano collections periodically throughout the summer (May-September). These visits may be timed with bat roost emergences and may occur in the late evening. All research will be conducted using appropriate decontamination protocols to prevent the spread of white-nose syndrome. If you sign up for this study, you may revoke your consent at any time. Further details will be communicated to those interested closer to the start date of the study. Please share this post far and wide!

Got questions? You can contact me at [email protected]

We are looking for landowners (or people in a stable renting situation) with an active, accessible bat roost on their property (i.e. an occupied bat box or barn) to participate in an undergraduate research study on white-nose syndrome. Researchers will need access to the property throughout the spri...

02/19/2022

Hi folks!

We have just received a shipment of 10 more boxes that were built by our partners at Big Brothers Big Sisters Dartmouth!
We will have another 30 or so boxes built by the tech ed class at Central Kings High School by mid to late March!
We are looking forward to getting some more boxes out into the community! Hopefully you are next on our list of recipients!

Thanks for your continued support!

01/12/2022

Hi everyone! Just a reminder to let us know if you've seen any bats lately, especially in your bat boxes!

We have another 12 bat boxes being made available over the next 3 weeks! Bringing our grand total of outgoing boxes over 100!

Happy New years to all the bat lovers out there! Thanks for your continued to support!