High Line Team Launches 3-Year Bat Survey With 4 Ultrasonic Recorders

1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 18

Four ultrasonic recorders were installed on the High Line this spring, starting a three-year effort to map bat activity in the elevated park.
Nic Comparato, a Rutgers Ph.D. student, and high school students in the High Line Fellows program are using passive acoustic monitoring to capture the echolocation calls bats make at night.
The survey aims to answer long-running questions about New York City bats, which scientists once knew little about despite bats making up 20% of the world’s mammal species.
Comparato said bat activity is consistently turning up across the city; last summer, Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn logged activity levels comparable to the rural Adirondacks.

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