About 200 in cave at temple. Some showed swollen tail tip; some showed black beards.
Occasional, on wet decaying branch under montane podocarp-broadleaved forest
Occasional, on decaying log under montane podocarp-broadleaved forest
Growing under a mix of mature exotic conifers including pine, redwood and Douglas fir. Also some native tree saplings in the understory.
Growing on grass underneath silver birches.
Credit: Mark Hansen (Instagram: markhansenz) 🦇
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39-40khz Magenta Bat 5.
Awesome evening, clicking away from dusk, still going when we left around 11pm.
Several bats observed flying at dusk. Sound heard via a bat detector and then recorded on a phone. It is a well known site for this species and well worth visiting as they are easy to see here.
Not a good image but definitely there. We listened to the echolocation calls with magenta 5 monitors.
Bat calls detected using DOC "AR4" automated bat detector set in large gum tree on edge of Sandford Park gully. Calls indicative of commuting and foraging behaviour.
New Zealand long-tailed bats, with sound modified to audible pitch by Batbox bat detector.
Recorded at about 9:15 pm. Not definite visual sightings, as the bats were between branches and never seemed to move above the trees so that we could see them against the sky. We did see movement between branches of something too big to be moths, so they must have been the bats, but we could not make out their shapes.