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. Members of ...

COMAL COUNTY, Texas — They are the things of horror movies, yet so fascinating people flock to see them. Every night as the sun begins to set, somewhere between 15 to 20 million Mexican Freetail bats ...

Spooky season means seeing more bats than usual out in the streets. There'll be paper and plastic bats hanging from front ...

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — In the words of the beloved and viral video, “it’s frickin’ bats!” And in Central Texas, they aren’t just a Halloween-time sighting; they’re a significant part of the ecosystem, ...

AUSTIN, Texas — August is one of the best times for bat watching, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). TPWD said in August, bat pups are ready to fly out of their caves and ...

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Disaster declarations are declared, hotels are booked up, and Austinites are picking up pairs of glasses for April 8's total solar eclipse. But one cohort doesn't care about the eclipse at all. In ...

Texas bats are dwindling in numbers as a fungal disease spreads among the species nationwide. In 2020, the first case of white-nose syndrome was detected in a Texas bat at the U.S. Army base Fort ...

There should have been 16,000 bats flying that night in mid-July. Instead, only about 500 remained at the cave in Central Texas next to the Colorado River. The rest had succumbed to white-nose ...