Bats were also seen at the University of Texas at Austin's campus, where an exterminator told the Austin American-Statesman in the early 80s that he used cyanide to kill them over the course of ...

Credit: Joe Timmerman/The Texas Tribune From left: Juno, a hoary bat, and Saber, a male red bat, at the Austin Bat Refuge. According to Lee Mackenzie, co-founder of the Austin Bat Refuge ...

Everything is bigger in Texas—even the bat emergences. That’s right, bat watching in Texas is a can’t-miss activity. There are 47 species of bats in the U.S. and a whopping 32 of these ...

Lee Mackenzie and Dianne Odegard, a married couple who run Austin Bat Refuge, picked up as many as about 600 bats, dead and alive, during the 2021 freeze from multiple Central Texas bridges.

A highly anticipated Texas highway expansion might mean trouble for one of the state's most iconic creatures. Thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats under Austin's Interstate 35 will be displaced ...

Austin, Texas, – also known as "Bat City" – may soon hire a chiropterologist, or bat biologist to be able to provide expertise on ways to manage the various bat populations across the city.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Did you know that the Mexican free-tailed bat is Texas’ official flying mammal? These bats are beneficial to the state, helping with insect control and pollination. Bats ...

Bats in Central Texas will be asleep during the eclipse, which is when the moon passes in front of the sun causing complete darkness. The eclipse is expected to pass over Austin around 1:35 p.m ...

Credit: Joe Timmerman/The Texas TribuneGet the data and visuals that accompany this story → From left: Juno, a hoary bat, and Saber, a male red bat, at the Austin Bat Refuge. According to Lee ...