I went out on my first night of netting for bats in Nicaragua. We left the house about 3:30 and drove north for about an hour to Las Pampas. We met Don Daniel, and American living in Nicaragua. We got to go on his ranch to net. We caught 35 bats of 8 species. We also saw a kinkajou, a 4-eyed o'possum, several frogs, and several parrot-like birds but the light was too bad to tell.
For those who wish to know, the species were:
Artibeus jamaicensis, Jamaican fruit-eating bat
Carollia perspicilla, Seba's short-tailed bat
Lophostona brasiliensis, Pygmy round-eared bat
Artibeus lituratus, great fruit-eating bat
Carollia suburbia, Gray short-tailed bat
Glossophaga commissarisi, brown long-tongued bat
Glossophaga sprucing, common long-tongued bat
Myotis nigricans, black myotis
We had help from Christian Bonilla, Marlon Jelasquez, Jose Martinez
We were home by 1:15.
It looks like Friday will be a long day, and we may camp out, so an update Saturday may we a little late.
Pictures are of Bill Nobel and Stu Tuttle fixing nets; our trap location at Las Pampas.
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