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Bat Monitoring

Volunteer researchers needed!

We need YOU to help collect information about bats from your own neighborhood!

Using simple equipment, you can learn how to record and identify which bats are flying around your neighborhood!

Plus you can enter to win a bat box for your home!

How can I participate?

Follow these steps:

  1. Attend a simple training (arrange a meeting with our staff or attend a public event (see Calendar of Events page for options).
  2. Borrow our Echometer Touch bat microphones and download the free app for your phone/tablet
  3. Walk around your neighborhood or local park after dark and collect audio data
  4. Submit your data to BCCDKY and return the borrowed device

Cool facts about bats

Fun and interesting things!

Why study bats?

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Get started!

fill out this form!

FAQs

How do I use an echometer?

where can I download the app?

How do I get the best recordings?

Where should I recored?

See our Data

pictures of recordings, map showing pinpoints of different species

February 26, 2025
Conservation Intern / Uncategorized

Lots of Work in June

Hello all and welcome back to my blog!

Lots of crazy stuff has been happening since my last blog! We just finished week one of Leaf Academy, and it was a fun week with the kids and my coworkers! We hiked at Boone Cliffs, kayaked at Boone’s Landing, swam at the Sperti Park creek, and did a bunch at Middle Creek! It was a jam packed week but it was super fun! Now to prepare for academy week in July!

This internship has taught me SO much since starting. I’ve learned so much new information on the environment, watersheds, habitats in creeks, and so much more. We did a mussel lecture last night and it was so interesting, plus I got to meet so many new people and make some new connections! We got a tour of Thomas More Field Station too, which was insane! It was so large and they’re doing so many cool projects. 

I’ve really been breaking out of my shell since working here and I’m excited to see all that’s in store with July quickly approaching. It’s time to do Leaf #2 and work on my final project, and then it’s the home stretch! Stay tuned to read more about life at BCCD and my super cool and awesome final project. 

-Mackenzie

July 21, 2022
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Jaron’s First Blog Post

Hello Boone County! Welcome to my very first summer intern blog. My name is Jaron Cooper I am currently Boone County Conservation District’s (BCCD) forest health intern. A little bit about me: I am a sophomore at Eastern Kentucky University studying Wildlife Management. I was born and raised in Boone County and am so grateful for this internship experience not only for the fact that I am getting priceless experience in the field but also just as exciting is the fact that I get to give back to my community that I have gotten so much from. 

My first couple of weeks at BCCD have been focused on the Conservation Kids camp and getting my toes wet with the ultrasonic wildlife recording of bats in Boone County. Conservation Kids camp is always a great experience, getting to see the kids get excited about conservation is always inspiring. The theme for camp this year was the Lewis and Clark expedition, the children got to learn about the animals and plants that the expedition had experiences with on the journey. Learning how to work the bat boxes which are specialized microphones to record bats is a process I am finding very enjoyable. 

I am looking forward to the rest of my summer with BCCD and the projects to come! Stay in touch as I will be writing a couple more blog posts before the summer is over.

June 16, 2022